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Mary Lou Jepsen—who designed the XO Laptop’s breakthrough reflective LCD screen and her new company, Pixel Qi, are reinventing the LCD again, and their display, if it lives up to its promises, could be the other way forward. In fact, she told me that she predicts that “in 2010, LCDs designed for reading will overtake the electrophoretic display technology [the e-ink used by Kindle and Sony] in the ereader market.”
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over-long and episodic because it was originally a TV mini-series of three episodes. the story tries to be several things and doesn’t succeed in any of them. for example, it is good that the protagonist, arronax (dempsey), is given a couple internal problems from the very beginning: recurring nightmares, and a father who is terribly disappointed in him. but these themes are not satisfactorily developed. nor is anything else in the film. not recommended.
cool graphics and design in the service of a flawed and unsatisfying story that starts like jules verne and ends like “final fantasy.”
couldn’t get into this short (184-page) feminine novel, but I’ll try again in the future.
couldn’t get into this 305-page novel, which I understand is a prequel to several novels.
“This website is a collection of thoughts, ideas, concepts, and projects that I am currently toying with. They’re all in different stages of completion”
by Scott Robinson | Nov 04, 2002
If there’s a single hands-on skill that defines a manager, it’s reporting. Managers are required to generate frequent reports that are clear and concise for their managers, their peers, and their reports. But you should consider generating another report: to yourself.
Author Robert Heinlein mentions a device called the Farley File
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If you’re looking to start a small business and need some funds fast, try submitting your idea to IdeaBlob. IdeaBlob is a new website that lets members post their brilliant schemes for starting up a business. Every month, the IdeaBlob community votes on an idea and the user whose idea receives the most votes will receive a US $10,000 grant
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john truby called him the best writer of premises.
17th-Dec-2008 11:54 am
Story by Robert McKee — I think this is mostly meant for screenwriters, but it’s still all about story and character and how they relate. It’s a big, dense book, and it didn’t make sense to me until I’d read it twice, and then it was like a light bulb going off in my head. I’m thinking of re-reading it again, since I’ve had a lot happen to me, writing-wise, after the last time I read it. As far as I know, it’s still just in hardcover, and it is pretty expensive, so you might want to look for this one in the library.
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