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In slap to Microsoft, Massachusetts requires open document format
Oooh, the Romney administration is doing something I can agree with. It is requiring that state documents be saved in an open document format:
Massachusetts’ shift to the so-called OpenDocument format seeks to ensure the state’s electronic records can easily be read, exchanged and modified now and in the future, free of licensing restrictions and compatibility [...]
Star Wars as post-modernism
This is a provocative read:
[Lucas] makes explicit his theoretical interest in the mechanics of plot. As viewers, we take pleasure in the implausible events that must happen for the narrative contraption to snap shut in a satisfying way. But the characters come to understand that there is another agent, external to themselves, that is dictating [...]
The first hydrogen fuel cell family car
The Spallinos … “aren’t just the first fuel cell family on their block,” as one Honda ad recently put it. “They’re the first in the world.”
On dressing appropriately
Miss Manners on proper attire:
Unlike beauty or other physical characteristics, dress is presumed to be subject to some degree of choice. You may choose to be as close or as remote from the prevailing convention of the time and occasion as you like, but the distance will be read as reflecting your attitude. This is [...]
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