Word: thumbnails
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...decent thumbnail sketch of the past decade, sure--but also, as I was repeatedly flabbergasted to discover while researching my new novel, which takes place from 1848 to 1850, a perfectly accurate reckoning of the late 1840s as well. And while it's an excellent parlor game to point out the resonant particulars--history really does rhyme, if not repeat itself--I've also become sincerely convinced that that mid--19th century moment is, more than any other, when modern American life really began. The future--that is, our present--came into sight. The way we live...
...pretty smart browser. Type in a website and on the E62's screen you glimpse just a corner of the page. Use the joystick to move a cursor around on the page. Fast movement brings up a thumbnail image - a rough but handy treasure map showing everything you might want. After you've browsed a few pages, click the Back button and you'll see thumbnails of the pages you 've visited, so you can quickly pick the one you actually wanted to return to. As nice as the browsing experience was, I was foiled in my attempt...
Defending the need for such liberalization, Deng coined the line that has become his thumbnail credo: "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." He also began suggesting that an individual's value in modernizing China lay less in his "redness," or Communist ardor, than in his "expertness," or technical skills. Though his own formal schooling ended early, Deng has repeatedly stressed that his vision for building a new China was bound inextricably to education and research...
...Recently, simply for you, dear reader, I saw some of them again. Here are thumbnail reviews of five...
...free from technology, visible and invisible. No Ethernet connection, no wireless service--and fortunately no deadline. I had a couple of beers with another technophile before getting on an airplane to fly home to my wonderful fiance, whom--I had nearly forgotten--I met on the Internet. By the thumbnail definition, maybe the Internet already isn't technology anymore...