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...time-traveled back to 1995 and asked the leading futurists of that time where our machines were soon to take us, you might well have heard just as much rhapsodizing about document-centric interfaces as that about hypertext and the World Wide Web. The first generation of software interfaces forced the user to think too much about the tools, the story went, and too little about the task. If you wanted to write a memo, you had to think, "First I must launch Microsoft Word, my tool, and then create a new document." If you wanted to embed some piece...
...rapid innovation over the next 24 months. Making broad statements about Apple's long-term intentions based on features that didn't ship with Version One is a fool's errand. We spent six months hyperventilating about how Apple was screwing over small developers by forcing everyone to develop Web apps, and then they launched the software-development kit and the App Store, and the iPhone turned into the biggest gold rush for small developers in the history of computing. (See 19 rejected names for the iPad...
...been lucky once, came to this unlucky point, a problematic storytelling tactic if you've cast Buscemi in the lead. We completely expect him to be a semi-hysterical mess standing under the unflattering glow of fluorescent lights. He was perfectly cast as Templeton the rat in Charlotte's Web and as Tony Soprano's shiftless, foolish cousin in The Sopranos. Not to mention Carl Showalter, aka, the wood-chipper victim, in Fargo. But a fondness for the actor keeps us attentive to writer/director Hue Rhodes' film, much longer than this meandering enterprise deserves...
Also, Yale has just made a Web site that gives viewers information about the federal grants that Yale faculty have received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. According to an article on Yale’s main Web site, those grants amount to approximately $121 million since last February...
This Tuesday, the Gehrkes decided to welcome Quincy House residents back from J-Term with a YouTube video posted on the House Web site. With the Quincy penguin dancing around on screen and an appearance of Kahlua chocolate mousse pie, the Gehrkes relayed information on House events that took place this week...