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Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’

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Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. First, he identified on a map the route he would need to drive to spell out the message. He put a GPS device in his car to trace the route he would follow. Then, he hit the road.
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PocketTales - Online book club for kids with quizzes and games

To play Pocket Tales, readers test their knowledge of a recently finished book by taking a short quiz on the Pocket Tales site. Passing a quiz earns the reader points, which helps them level-up and challenge their friends for leaderboard domination.
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College Professors are pampered and students are suffering

Elite colleges justify the light teaching loads of their professors—Yale requires only three courses a year, with a semester off every third year—by claiming that the members of their faculty spend their time producing important research.
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Reading on Paper is Faster than iBooks on the iPad - PCWorld

It will take you longer to read a book on an iPad or Kindle compared to the printed page, according to a recent study. Dr. Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group
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Pikk a side- The mom or the library

Two years ago, Harden's daughter, then 13, handed the stack of books to her mother at the checkout at Seminole County's Northwest Branch library in Lake Mary. Harden later flipped through one and saw numerous curse words and terms such as "stoned" and "marijuana," and a reference to sleeping with a teacher. "The whole book was filled with everything I don't want my daughter to do or be," she said.
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Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales

A new study from two academics at BYU tracking the sales of printed books following free ebook releases found that generally, a free ebook release is correlated with increased sales. Interestingly, the exception is for a group of ebooks that were released for a week and then withdrawn
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Work expands to the time allowed

Nowadays Parkinson’s law is usually condensed to saying work expands to the time allowed. It is applied to individuals as well as a burgeoning bureaucracies. Parkinson discusses this interpretation in his opening paragraph but then limits his attention to organizations.
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ReleaseQ - Organizes upcoming releases of movies and other media

Track your favorite upcoming releases: movies, books, music, and video games. Gives you a way to organize the overwhelming amount of information that is out there in a way that is relevant to you.
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Balloon Boy's Dad's racist driving book from 1994

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In a chapter about the types of drivers to avoid, he refers to one group as "Jam'in Bro in His Cadillac," another as "Towelheads" and another as "Orientals." And the book is littered with photos with Heene dressed up as people from the various groups.
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TweetBookz: Would you turn 200 tweets into a book?

For $20 (softback) or $30 (hardback), a 5.5×8.5-inch 200 page book can be printed in one of four customisable designs in either English, Spanish, French or Hebrew.Would you put 200 of your tweets in a book? Would you give it as a gift to someone else? Are your archived tweets that scintillating?
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Al Roker's new book: This time, the TV weatherman did it

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The Morning Show Murders: A Novel (Delacorte, 320 pp., $26), on sale Tuesday, is the first in a planned series of murder mysteries from America's most famous cloud-watcher. "They'll all be (set) at a morning show," Roker says as he chats in his cubbyhole of an office between appearances on camera. "Or maybe late-night shows! We might have to kill off a late-night host!"
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Bloody Bookmark Makes Your Books Bleed

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Each of these sets of three bookmarks (black, white and red) is custom made so every one is an original. In a few cases it might just seem you spilled something on your book but the blood one in particular makes it seem as if your favorite volumes have been done grave internal injury.
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