Category Archives: New Technology

In the age-old battle between book and bath, humans have tried many things: the reading tray, the deftly balance towel, the take-your-chances method. An eight-year-old girl genius has solved this conundrum, inventing a simple yet ingenious technique for safeguarding books from … Continue reading

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An app’s an app for a’ that

  There’s a free iPhone app that offers the complete works of the Bard in a searchable database – over 550 poems and love songs – a handy guide to how to host an authentic haggis (barf) Burns Supper, biographical … Continue reading

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Revenge of This Nerd.

This past Sunday, NY Times readers were once again subjected to a loathsome Sunday Styles Section. There were many offenses this week; a horrifically written and poorly documented supermodel divorce expose, a snorey (story + so boring it puts you … Continue reading

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Born To Check Mail

From today’s New York Times Book Review: While reading “Hamlet’s BlackBerry,” I sporadically paused to check my iPhone — whenever its ping signaled the arrival of a new e-mail message. I hated to turn away from William Powers’s elegant meditation on … Continue reading

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Republic of Booklessness

“Free To All,” is chiseled in old, non-digitized stone over the main entrance to the Boston Public Library; and in the words of Thomas Jefferson, carved in un -photoshopped gilded letters on the mantle of the  super secret Trustees’ Room … Continue reading

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