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cliff52NPR reports that employers embrace new technologies
Job hunting? The rules have changed:
"Paper resume' passe' ... in some circles."
"Not having a profile on LinkdIn ... a major liability."
"Folded paper resume' in an envelope...hard to take seriously."
"Blogs and Facebook pages ... essential for communicating with a potential employer."
Ars Technica reports on gifts for hacker Dads
(this, not personal - I prefer my Amazon wish list)
Slashdot reports Senators reviewing exclusive handset policy of certain wireless carriers
(you can only get an Iphone on AT&T, for instance.)
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cliff521. The piano number in the Canon ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pk0R8OWg
2. "Books that make you dumb" connects SAT score with favorite books listed on Facebook. From the deparment of unlikely correlations: http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/ .
3. I did pick up on Paul Coelho's The Alchemist on that list. Mr. Coelho says it was inspired by Borges' 'A Tale of Two Dreamers' found in his collection of stories "The Complete History of Infamy", of which Borges later commented "...under all the thunder and lightning there is nothing." We'll just have to see.
I really enjoy Borges. I think he found the magic key to everything and wrote his works in the ensuing sense of cosmic amusement.
I may be the only human connected with my journal that likes hacking, in the sense of re-purposing objects from that intended by their creators and manufacturers. I've written about Limor Fried (ladyada) before, electrical engineer and entrepreneur. Ladyada recently blogged about an entry from FatMan and Circuit Girl 's video blog making a wristwatch from an old flippy-number alarm clock.
"Circuit Girl" is Jeri Ellsworth , a self-taught VLSI (very-large-scale-integration) electronics designer who created the chip at the center of 2004's Christmas gift sensation, the joystick that contained a number of early-80's video games.
Flip-clock alarm clocks can be found either in someone's garbage can, or at a suburban yard sale for $2.00, or you can buy them on eBay for $2-$300 !!!! They're now collectible.
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T.S. Eliot - Ash Wednesday
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Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
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