100 Year-Old Woman's First Computer is an iPad

Watch this elderly (but very sharp) woman interact with a computer for the first time in her life: We, Virginia’s family, wish to say this video was made within minutes of her receiving her iPad. ? She quickly caught on to how to read …

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If running your business isn't fun, you must be doing it wrong …

For most business owners, rather than becoming a gateway to freedom and fun , their business becomes a trap that imprisons them. In this article I’ll reveal why that happens and demonstrate how you don’t have to sacrifice your life for …

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Zooey Deschanel to (Hopefully) Play Computer Programmer Ada …

Kooky-actress-it’s-ok-to-worship Zooey Deschanel has apparently been cast as Ada Lovelace in a new film chronicling her life, Enchantress of Numbers. Lovelace, who died in 1852, was an English woman who wrote the first algorithm ever …

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PEOPLE « Thenewcomer's Weblog

This obsession with the undefined, shadowy, lurking mass of People who are standing around in corners, waiting to pass judgement on every single aspect of your life is a major aspect of life in Iran. The phrases above are perhaps some …

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People are creative; industries, not so much. And cities? « Adam …

People I have a great deal of respect for have found institutional homes in departments so named, so there must be some there there, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why a rubric so fuzzy and problematic has risen to prominence …

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