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Another review of Is Anybody Out There?
Reading on Paper is Faster than iBooks on the iPad — The study found that reading on an electronic tablet was up to 10.7 percent slower than reading a printed book. Despite the slower reading times, Nielsen found that users preferred reading books on a tablet device compared to the paper book. The PC monitor, meanwhile, was universally hated as a reading platform among all test subjects.
A Klemm L 25 (appparently) on Mont Blanc, ca. 1930
New Electronic Fibre Heralds Smarter Textiles
Dan Choi and James Pietrangelo subpeona the President: ‘we were following your orders’ — Gay soldiers and DADT. (Via Year of the Word.)
Republicans Can’t Name Marshall’s Activist Rulings — But it’s such a great label! And it gets the base all riled up! Who cares about those silly facts when ideology is at stake?
?otD: What question would you like to see here?
7/6/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1 hour (finished a flash piece)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.25 (poorly)
This morning’s weigh-in: 231.6
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 5/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Ringworld by Larry Niven
Posted: 5:30 am Tue July 06 2010 |
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Cora
July 6th, 2010 at 2:57 pmRegarding the Klemm L 25, even more fascinating than the unarguably cool plane is that it was piloted by legendary German aviator Ernst Udet and along with Udet appeared in the film Stürme über dem Mont Blanc (Avalanche), which was directed by Leni Riefenstahl, who also starred as the love interest several brave mountaineers are fighting over. Riefenstahl and Udet had cooperated on another alpine mountaineering film, Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (White Hell of Piz Palu) the year before.