I lust after an Asus eee pc , but I’m wondering how usable it’ll be with its tiny keyboard and tiny screen. What’s it like, browsing the web at a resolution of 800×480?
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a better world
A wish for a better world – Matt Rossi on the early Superman comics:
The real wish fulfillment of the early Siegel and Shuster Superman stories (say it three times fast) isn’t his amazing powers, it’s that he can change any social ill, right any wrong, fix any problem with straightforward brute force. He has the power to effect real, lasting societal change by finding the right people and hitting them.
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Netscape 0.9
To mark the passing of Netscape, Sean Burke installed netscape 0.9 and took it for a test ride.
The Israeli nature preservation society is running a poll to choose the Israeli national bird. As talkbackers noted, many of the “negative” attributes of the birds they listed as cons are actually very typical of our national character – aggressive, loud, etc. Haaretz mentions that an earlier attempt to nominate one of the candidates was rejected because of this endemic species’ latin name – the Palestine Sunbird.
[via HaAyal].
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Erick Wujcik is dying
Kevin Siembieda reports that Erick Wujcik, creator of the Amber Diceless roleplaying game, is dying of cancer.