August 2010
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What's the definition of 'obsolete'? You'll have... →
Oxford University Press, the publisher, said so many people now look up words using its online product that it is not certain whether the dictionary’s next edition will be printed at all. ”At present we are experiencing increasing demand for the online product,” the publisher said. ”However, a print version will certainly be considered if there is sufficient demand at the...
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The elusive 212
“Does an area code even matter when most of us make calls by selecting names from a contact list, and not dialing digits? “I find that I’m using the phone less and less. Physical talking on the phone is something old people do.” — Doug Jaeger
This is from an article by Caroline Wexler in The Wall Street Journal about how numbers in the 212 Manhattan area code are...
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A truncated history of music, told in decorative...
Lladro, 1978
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The dollar store, New Paltz, NY 2010.
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“Now we have a whole generation of students who’ve grown up with information that...”
– Is the notion of attributed sources obsolete? From Teresa Fishman of the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University, Lines on Plagiarism Blur For Students In Digital Age, NY Times 8/1/10.
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It just occurred to me that
the name of this site is ObsoleteTheBook, but it is not actually a book! It’s a site.
When you can read a book online, I guess the difference is really minimal. But you can’t actually read this book online—at least, not yet—so it struck me as funny. Here is my one project, a site called “Obsolete The Book” and here is my book which is called an Encyclopedia. ...