Category: technology / video games
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iBooks, eBooks, and Episodic Writing
Apple announced a new version of iBooks for iPad on Thursday, focusing on how it can deliver inexpensive textbooks to students. It’s being pushed as a revolution in education, but does the same update have applicability outside of the classroom? Aside from the (often gimmicky) interactive widgets and other benefits of electronic books, they offer…
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Book Review: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
[Very minor spoilers lie ahead] The Hunger Games tells the story of a teen girl living in a future, post-post-apocalyptic world, where an obviously-evil government keeps the people in line by throwing a handful of them into a televised fight to the death in an outdoor arena once a year. Although it doesn’t happen right…
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On Complaining About Technology
I don’t complain much, but when I do, it’s usually about technology. I have an unfortunate combination of bad luck and high standards when it comes to gadgets. Literally, whenever I buy anything with greater complexity than lettuce, it has some flaw, either minor and only noticeable to my hyper-critical eye1 or a major defect2.…
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