According to Michael Wilson of The New York Times, Starbucks coffee shops are a prime location for pickpockets and thieves, because the settings are full of people who are generally at ease with their work or conversation with tunes playing in the background. I imagine that many of us academics as well as our students …
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Amazon Nukes Ebooks Remotely
David Pogue on the New York Times reports that Amazon remotely nuked George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from every purchasers’ Kindle ebook reader, because the publisher decided that it did not want those books available in electronic form. I call “bullshit” on Amazon and the publishers. I will never buy books from an online publisher …
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