I see that Paul Kedrosky is talking about a resurgence of department stores, based on the fact that lots of people want one-stop shopping rather than going from store to store. Funnily enough, Walmart has been meeting precisely this need for years; I gather one of the major demographics for Walmart is harried mothers with [...]
I’m usually a bit of a stickler for trying to use language correctly. I realise that one of the beauties of the English language is the way new words and phrases are coined, and I will defend the right of people to do so, but it doesn’t mean I need to like all of them. [...]
It looks like the federal government in Canada is planning on changing the copyright law. If you’re concerned about the issue of copyright, and particularly if you’re living in Canada and want to do something about this issue, read the details on Michael Geist’s blog. He has a whole series on why he thinks the [...]
I see Flickr has announced online photo editing, something that will be really useful for those times when I just don’t happen to have some other program handy. In particular when I’m trying to get the colour balance on my stash photos right, of course <grin />. I wonder whether the temptation to punch up [...]
Tim and I went to Portland for a couple of days. Apart from the obligatory visit to Powell’s and a couple of microbreweries, we also went to an NBA game. Tim likes live sports, and there isn’t a professional basketball team in Vancouver, so it seemed like a chance to do something we wouldn’t normally [...]
Lest anyone think that physicists don’t care about the real world, Bob Park publishes a short weekly newsletter that touches on subjects ranging from scientific hoaxes to inconsistencies in the way the U.S. Administration handles various issues. It mostly concentrates on science and technology, but not only. The Friday, October 26, 2007 newsletter also discusses [...]
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