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1. Do You Need the Book? We started reading books on the kindle for iPhone and it's changing our whole approach to book buying. Not only are we not accruing physical books, but when a great book is recommended to us, we can download it immediately--very satisfying. Of course that doesn't help us with the books we've already got. But to thin them out we consider: if we had to move, would we bring them? And: in 10 years will I remember this book? If it's a yes then it's worth it. If no, it gets donated to a friend or a library.

With the quality of media players, and the expectations and media consumption literacy of consumers rapidly changing personal devices is a more realistic proposition.

MarcoPolo brings context-aware computing to your portable Mac computer.

It allows your computer to determine its context through gathering evidence

from your environment (evidence sources), using flexible rule-based

fuzzy matching to make an educated guess (rules), and then

performing arbitrary actions upon changing context (actions).

As someone who attempted to keep an implementation of an HTML5 parser up-to-date for some period of time last year, I will say it’s time-consuming, thankless work, especially since the spec was changing a lot. Now that things have settled down a bit, it might be good to start making full implementations.

Speaking as a long-time Web Developer, I'm appalled by the dismissive

and insulting attitude taken by the constituency dictating HTML 5 as

pertains to the standards that myself and those like me are perfectly

capable of understanding, by declaring repeatedly that we're a bunch of

morons who can't understand resource/representation or anything else

the vendors are hell-bent on changing, as justification for said

changes ignoring those well-understood standards.

Which motivates me to participate in this thread, because I don't want

that vendor-centric approach to pollute HTTPbis, rendering the spec so

large and unwieldy that only browser vendors could ever hope to

understand its meaning, in terms of what they've implemented. A big,

emphatic -1 to the notion that HTTPbis should follow HTML 5 down the

road of standardizing error correction behavior for user agents, for

C-D or anything else.

Last weekend, Craigslist, the popular provider of Internet classified advertising, halted publication of its "adult services" section. The move followed criticism from law enforcement officials across the country who have accused the site of facilitating prostitution on a massive scale. Of course, selling sex is an old business -- most say the oldest. But as the Craigslist controversy proves, it's also one of the fastest changing. And as a result, most people's perceptions of the sex trade are wildly out of date.