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Geek Alert

The Kindle is not good for screenplays

March 2, 2009 Follow Up, Formatting, Geek Alert, News

Kindle 2: great for books, but not ready for screenplays.

Answer Finder

March 2, 2009 Geek Alert, Meta, QandA, Scrippets

Answer Finder is a new way to navigate through the hundreds of answered questions on this site.

The new Kindle is pretty solid

February 24, 2009 Geek Alert, Rave

After playing around with it for an hour, I’m pretty happy with the Kindle 2.

Snopes plugin

February 10, 2009 Geek Alert, Hive Mind

Whenever a family member forwards an email with a warning about an urgent peril to my health, I immediately visit Snopes.com to confirm my suspicion that it’s a hoax. I then copy a link to the article and send it back, with a gently-worded request to please check Snopes before sending out similar emails. Today’s […]

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