September 2009
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“Apple Tablet to Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks... →
Brian Lam reports that the rumored
Apple tablet will be launched with a variety of
multimedia-enhanced text sources. If correct,
iTunes LP and iTunes Extras are merely
the first steps in an envisioned world of enhanced digital formats.
Would such formats be open to anyone other than Apple?
iTunes LP is, but Lam writes:
The logic here is that textbooks are sold new at a few hundred dollars,...
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A way to download shared Anki decks
Today I downloaded Anki as a result of a discussion at Hacker
News. When I attempted to download a deck (none are built-in), I
consistently got errors — complaints about bad ZIP files, file problems, and so
on. After some digging, I found a techy workaround.
Find an interesting deck using Anki’s shared deck list.
Load http://anki.ichi2.net/file/search in your browser.
Search for the name of...
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“None Dare Call It Conspiracy”
Note: What follows is a transcript of Scott Anderson’s article for this month’s edition of GQ regarding the Russian apartment bombings in 01999. This article has been carefully surpressed:
Jerry Birenz ordered that the article could not be posted to the magazine’s Web site. No copies of the American edition of the magazine could be sent to Russia or shown in any country to Russian...