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 Send to email | Words in stone and on the wind in General |  By Rough Ty
el 03-Feb-2012 | After I wrote, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, about the malleability of text in electronic books, a reader asked me to flesh out my thoughts about the different ways that "typographical fixity" - to again borrow Elizabeth Eisenstein's term - can manifest itself in a book. I've been thinking about that and have come up with four categories of fixity or stability - not all of which are typographical in nature - that influence the permanence of a book (or other written work) and that change, sometimes radically, as we shift from print publishing to electronic publishing. I'm sure this isn't a complete list, but I hope it's a useful start: Integrity of the page. At the simplest and most fundamental level, typographical fixity means that when you have a page printed in ink, you're able to trust that the page will maintain its integrity; when you pick it up tomorrow, or twenty years from now, its contents will be the same as what you see today. The printing press didn?t create this type of fixity - it was there with the scribal book, the scroll, and certainly the stone tablet - but it did extend it into...
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| Words in stone and on the wind | | After I wrote, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, about the malleability of text in electronic books, a reader asked me to flesh out my thoughts about the different ways that "typographical fixity" - to again borrow Elizabeth Eisenstein's term - can manifest itself in a book. I've been thinking about that and have come up with four categories of fixity or stability - not all of which are typ [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Feb-2012 by Rough Ty in General
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 | Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide |  Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| All the Bad Words You Can't Say in Pure [Cuss Words] |  Meant to post this last week, forgot, sorry. Someone went rooting around through a PC copy of Pure and found what has been described as Disney's standard wirty-dord list. If you crack up simply reading the word "boner" or "felch" or "gerbiling," this shou [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Dec-2008 by Owen Good in Cuss Words Disney Nsfw pure
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| Nerdblog | Blogger | Provides news about hardware, software, notebooks, laptops, PCs, Mac, PDAs
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| Hands-on with the MSI Wind | | This is one of the best mini laptops so far–it’s comfortable to use, has a good display and it’s affordable.
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http://asia.cnet.com [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Jul-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| OS X on your MSI Wind? No problem. |  If you’re in the market for an ultra-portable machine running OS X, but the Macbook Air is a bit outside of your budget, you might want to take note. The MSI Wind, one of many recently introduced low-budget UMPC machines, has been caught in the wild running a full version of OS X. According to [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Jun-2008 by Joshua Karp in Mac OSmsi windos x
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| Man hacks Mac OS X onto MSI Wind | | From Air to Wind
Fancy a 10in MacBook, anyone? We’ve seen Mac OS X installed and run on Asus’ original Eee PC, and now someone’s done the same on the MSI Wind, aka the Advent 4211.
TheRegister [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Jul-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Gundam Large And In STONE [Gundam] |  Another giant Gundam statue. Sure, it's not as big as the 1/1 scale Gundam — this mobile suit is 4 meters and weighs 10 tons. Recently hitting the Japanese internet, this Gundam was created 2 years ago by a Japanese stone cutter in Yasu City, Saga Prefecture. See those stones [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Aug-2009 by Brian Ashcraft in Gundam CultureJapanOnly in Japan
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| Rolling Stone ad outs AT&T?s HTC Inspire 4G? yes, 4G |  It isn’t all that often we get to report on mobile technology news broken by magazine Rolling Stone, which makes this news even more special. In a print ad touting HTC’s portfolio of 4G handsets, some of the usual suspects are depicted. Obviously, Sprint’s EVO 4G makes a cameo, T-Mobile’s G2 is depicted, and Verizon’s unannounced-but-well-documented Thunderbolt is sit [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Jan-2011 by Andrew Munchbach in Hardware4GAdAT&TCESHTCImageInspireLTEpictureRolling Stone
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