The saga continues. A reader forwarded us this note he got from AT&T, simply stating that his iPhone 4 preorder had been cancelled, for no apparent reason. And he's not the only one. Updated: More cancellations, including some from Apple. More »
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Facebook just updated their iPhone app, fixing bugs and allowing you to watch your friends' silly pets and imbibing feats, in video, right in the palm of your hand. That's nice, Facebook, but where's your iPad app? [iTunes] More »
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There's something about dads fumbling with gadgets that's downright endearing, which this someecards video greeting captures to perfection. Send it tomorrow, then spend twenty minutes on the phone helping pops get it to load. More »
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 Skatter Tech (blog) | HTC EVO 4G - Sprint (Review) Skatter Tech (blog) When back in the Sacramento area or the San Jose area, speeds held consistent at about 1.2 Mbps for download and 0.8 for upload. ... |
Juneteenth Festival in Syracuse's Clinton Square celebrates freedom The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com About 15 health organizations set up booths under a tent, sponsored by SUNY Upstate Medical University, in the Dr. Henry A. Washington Health Pavilion. ... |
E3 is now over, which gives us a pretty thorough view of what's coming down the pipe between now and the end of the year. Here are the best games (in our opinion) that you're going to be playing. More »
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Joining the Shack and T-Mobile themselves, Amazon's offering all T-Mobile phones—including the HTC HD2, Nokia Nuron, Motorola CLIQ, and the Blackberry Bold 9700 among them—for ONE PENNY until June 21, with a new 2 year contract. [Amazon] More »
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Woman Advertising J.M. Dolph, Furniture Maker and Undertaker
W. Peppets Art Gallery, Homer, Michigan
Cabinet card, circa 1877A peculiar advertising photographic pictorial was devised during the 1870s. Women were posed holding signs heralding businesses, their dresses and bodies decorated with life-size objects related to the business. This woman’s hat is adorned with rings from coffin robes. On her chest, she sports a coffin plate, and above and beneath that plate are handles from a coffin. Around her neck is another coffin plate, and coffin chains and paraphernalia hang from her dress. Furniture makers became coffin makers as a natural extension of woodworking skills. The large frame [on the skirt of her dress] indicates this establishment also made frames.
From the wonderful Sleeping Beauty II - Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography by Stanley B. Burns, M.D.
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Earlier today, Jason finally got to test the cloud-based gaming service OnLive from the comfort of his home (read: underpants). He liked it! Now there's even more good news: a TV version will be ready before the year's end. More »
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After a rash of employee suicides brought scrutiny to the working conditions in Foxconn's factories, some horror stories quickly came to light. Now, the Times has followed a worker through his average night-shift, assembling some 1,600 hard drives. More »
Foxconn - Apple - Suicide - China - Art
In 1964, Danish artist Asger Jorn published "The Application of the Triolectical Method in General Situology," a philosophical tract that rebuked prevailing dialectics. Nobody knew what the hell he was talking about, so he invented three-sided football to illustrate. More »
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We've checked out the OnLive pure-streaming gaming system before, but it was always in a somewhat controlled environment. Finally, the service has launched, and we can see what it's like to play this at home. Where it matters. More »
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Square, the super-cool payment system that lets you collect peoples' credit card dollars on your smart phone, is delayed indefinitely while the company tightens various infrastructural screws. CEO Jack Dorsey admits they rolled features out "before they were fully baked." More »
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There are plenty of technical hurdles keeping the masses from decking out their roofs with solar panels, but their general ugliness doesn't help much either. Tegolasolare puts their photovoltaic panels second to the surrounding architecture, not the other way around. More »
Energy - Solar - Renewable - Business - Electric
The BBC asked readers to submit their ideas on how the Gulf oil disaster might be resolved. Iraj Ershaghi, USC's director of petroleum engineering, went down the list and briefly explained how each idea would fail. We're pretty much doomed. More »
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You might assume that after some 100 years of refinement the modern bicycle has achieved perfection. Not so! Popular Mechanics has rounded up 10 variations on the common bicycle that could have us pedaling less and coasting farther. [Popular Mechanics] More »
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 New York Times (blog) | Medical Schools Scored on the Social Mission of Medical Education Medscape June 18, 2010 — Medical schools vary substantially in a newly developed "social mission ranking score," according to the results of a study reported in the ... Rethinking the Way We Rank Medical SchoolsNew York Times (blog) Redefining 'the Best' Medical SchoolsNew York Times (blog) USA medical school's social mission recognized in new rankingsal.com (blog) University of Wisconsin-Madison -TopNews United States -New Yorker (blog) all 13 news articles » |
 HealthNewsDigest.com | The Economic Health of the Health Care Industry HealthNewsDigest.com ... less freedom to exercise independent professional judgment. This will add to the presently anticipated physician shortage. Moreover, prospective medical ... |
A fine family film with an edifying tale, endearing and funny characters, and an appealing emotional undertow.
Read all 'Fourth Amendment' posts in Politics and Law CNET (blog) (Like the censor-happy Streisand, Brandeis and Warren paid scant attention to the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press. ... |
