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Not sure if anyone is interested, but I have a few beta signup codes for Dropbox, the cross-platform file sharing service.
Email me @ mike@morrowplanet.com if you’d like one.
Update: my supply of beta codes for Dropbox is gone! Thanks.
It seems like the Mrs. and I constantly buy new landline phones. We haven’t even been married all that long, but we’ve owned at least three sets of phones since then. They break, the batteries refuse to hold a charge, one of the kids throws it on the floor until it shatters, etc.
Landline phone makers [...]
Any parents out there? Our (not quite) four-year-old is just getting ready to head off into pre-school. Can you recommend any good children’s books that would be useful to read with her? Particularly looking for stories that might ease anxiety about what to expect, etc.
Please reply in the comments or email me.
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I’m really attracted to the whole "life hacking" movement. Definitely a tinkerer by nature, there’s something really satisfying about learning how others have optimized the mundane details of modern living and improved their quality of life as a result. So I read the usual sites, constantly fiddle with "trusted systems" and spend a lot of [...]
I enjoy Mary Roach’s science writing, and would happily read about her investigations into any topic. She’s covered Death (in Stiff) and the Afterlife (in Spook). What could possibly be next, but Sex? And here we are, with Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
One of the things I love about Roach’s books (though [...]
As a loyal and happy member of the You Like Nice Today Fun Bunch, I thought I’d mash three of my current favorite things: the Twitter whale, Archie Bell & the Drells, and the Fishstick dance craze. (Yes, I’m a dork)
And while we’re at it…
I may be about to cross a threshold.
Now, you know me: I’m a lifelong reader with a passion for technology. My lust for gadgetry and tech stuff is rivaled only by the length of my Amazon wishlist and the size of my to-be-read pile on my nightstand. So why haven’t I ever been interested [...]
Sorry about the unexpected outage. All should be better now. That’s what I get for messing around under the hood and then leaving for the day…
It’s fairly easy to reach for facile metaphors to describe Toby Barlow’s truly exceptional novel, Sharp Teeth. The book sank its teeth into me and never let go, it had me howling at the moon, etc.
But that would cheapen this super-tight, violent, and alarmingly nuanced first novel. Barlow never goes for the easy or [...]
