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POPSWTF is Google smoking with this shit?
What gets me most about this whole "FastFlip" thing is this line from Google: "Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles." Not. Even. Close. When will people finally figure out that you will never be able to reproduce the "print experience" online? They are two totally different media!!! What makes print profound is the warmth of ink on paper - period. Being able to flip quickly through a sequential listing of content is a bastardization that only a company bent on digitizing all the worlds information could dream up. After looking at this POS I have to question whether ANYONE at Google has ever read a magazine - let alone LOVED one. The only real quality of the magazine that does translate to the networked world is context - which for some reason is absolutely missing in this attempt. Maybe it's just me... maybe I'm paranoid or something... but FastFlip seems to be more about placating an increasingly angry, d
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POPSE-Money (That’s What I Want) There is a host of reasons why we should adopt a “cashless” society: 1-the cost of printing bills and stamping coins (in 2008 taxpayers paid $848 million to print hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bills, two thirds of that went to minting coins that most of us find is a nuisance to handle.) 2-more than 14,823 tons of zinc, 23,879 tons of copper, and 2,514 tons of nickel went into making coins last year. 3-cash is germ-smeared, bulky, carbon-intensive and expensive. Two years ago, card-based payments exceeded paper-based ones – cash, checks, food stamps – for the first time. The most efficient method of commerce would be to use the cell phone as a point-of-sale terminal which would lend itself to bartering. Imagine paying for a beer with frequent flier miles. Killing currency wouldn’t be a trauma, it’s be euthanasia.
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POPSAfrican-American Transgender History - 50s Style From the comments: Monie wrote: The interesting thing is that Jet/ Ebony covered the LGBT community in the 50’s but they aren’t covering it at all now. It seems that Ebony/ Jet and many in the Black community are less accepting now than 50 years ago. I wonder why that is? Yes, I wonder too.
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POPSreCAPTCHA - Digitizing Books One Word at a Time "But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct."
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POPSAlternative to Google for digital preservation This sounds like an interesting concept. I think Google does some fine things, but one size does not always fit all, so it's nice that there are going to be another alternative for libraries to use. And I still think libraries are better equipped in general to develop this type of technology due to (hopefully) more sensitivity to what is useful, worth preserving, etc. Not everything in the world needs to be saved.
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POPSAbyssMedia audio utilities -- I recommend these I got i-Sound and Audio Converter Plus from GiveawayOfTheDay.com for free, but I am considering buying them to install on another computer. i-Sound ($30) is a quick, reliable, lightweight direct-to-MP3 recorder, with a simple, clean interface. Does not hog resources or create huge temp files like Audacity.
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