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Voyager’s Garrett Wang to Lead Dragon*Con Trek Track
Dragon*Con, North America’s largest fan-run SF convention, has hired a pro — actor Garrett Wang of Star Trek: Voyager — to lead its popular Star Trek track at this year’s event.
Stapled Shut: How a Misprint Got Me a Sweet New Monitor
Learn how a misprint in this week’s Staples advertisement could get you an HD monitor for a lot less than you think.
The Looming eBook Quandary
Thanks to the leverage of their iPad distribution agreements with Apple, the big book publishing houses won their recent price skirmish against Amazon.com, but will the victory be a Pyrrhic one?
Pic of the Day: Photo/Graphs
Nikki Graziano is a photographer who’s also into math. Courtesy of Wired.com, we learn how the graphs of mathematical functions are mirrored in nature. Graziano, a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, “overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos,” Wired says. To her, it’s simply a demonstration of “how awesome math is.”
Sizing Up the Oscar Noms
It’s Oscar season, with the first 10-nominee Best Picture category ever. Here’s my take on the competition in all but the technical categories as we leave the starting gate.
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‘Precious’ Both More and Less Than You Expect
Precious is so much more than the depression fest you expect. It provides a shocking and enlightening view of life in the inner city, where faith in the power of literacy and creativity can wring some small bit of hope from the crude morass of poverty and abuse.
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My ‘Blood and Fire’ Wins TrekMovie’s Best of Year
TrekMovie.com awarded the Star Trek: Phase II episode I co-authored with noted scifi author David Gerrold the Best Fan Production of 2009. “Blood and Fire, Part 2″ is based on a script Gerrold wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation but was never produced because producers deemed it too controversial.
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Pic of the Day: What a Bunch of B.S.
From a bulletin board for the Communication and Media program at the University of Minnesota. The funny part is that the “B.S.” bit was taped onto the Scientific & Technical Communication label — someone went out of their way to let you know.
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Who’s the Devil Haiti Made the Deal With?
Pat Robertson’s delusional view of the world actually makes God the bad guy.I hope Jesus is nothing like the vindictive and ill-informed Christian broadcaster and one-time Republican presidential candidate who claims Haiti has suffered throughout its history because of a supposed “deal with the Devil” slaves made in order to defeat their French overlords.
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Ask a Mac: Why Use Wordpress’ New Thumbnails Feature?
Ask a Mac No. 2: How you can use the new Wordpress image thumbnail feature to liven up the online experience of iPhone (and other smartphones’) visitors to your site — even if the theme you currently use isn’t set up for it.
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Pic of the Day: Cupcake
My niece zRose25 took this photo with her iPhone 3GS at Cupcake, a Minneapolis lunch spot near where she works. The cupcake was delicious.