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Meet My New Baby

...my new MacBook Pro! I constantly have memory-intensive programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Quark all running at the same time....with music playing and Firefox and Safari opened to 12 different pages. As a result my old PowerBook G4 (which is now almost 4 years old) has been suffering a bit in the past year. I knew I needed to get a replacement laptop since the fall of 2007, but I also knew that updates to the MacBook Pro line were imminent with the annual MacWorld conference coming up in January. MacWorld came and went with the announcement of the MacBook Air, but not even a whisper about the MacBook Pro. I troweled all the Mac fan message boards and rumor sites...

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Book Review: Love Story

When I first met R, I thought he was a typical womanizer and wouldn't give him the time of day. He tried his best to win me over and when he finally succeeded in taking me out on a date, I gave him the third degree. One of the first questions I asked was, "What is your favorite book?" "Love Story," he replied without hesitation. I laughed him off for two reasons: (1) I knew Love Story well, because it was one of my favorite movies...

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The Mona Lisa Smile

You may find it surprising that I was in a sorority in college. I was not only a member of this sorority, but I was very involved, having held three VP positions, a pledge mom one semester, and chapter president for two consecutive semesters. I can go on and on about my sorority days, but I'll save that for another day. One of the many things that the general public knows about the greek system is that when a member stars pledging, he/she is given a nickname. This nickname may be based on the pledge's personality, looks, hobbies...

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Design and the Elastic Mind

Yesterday, New York's MoMA began an exhibition called Design and the Elastic Mind, which, according to their website, "focuses on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and social mores, changes that will demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and convert them into objects and systems that people understand and use." In other words, geek art. Right up my alley. Here are three works from the online gallery that particularly caught my eyes: "Attracted to Light," from the Long Exposure series, by Geoffrey Mann "Attracted to Light narrates the erratic behavior of a moth upon the stimulus of light," explains the designer. The trajectory is captured through cinematic technology and the echo of the path, materialized through rapid prototyping, forms a delicately poetic hanging lamp. The Long Exposure series,...

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