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Computer stuff

Chromebooks

Fresh from Google’s IO conference comes today the news that notebooks that run the Chrome operating system will be available June 15 and they will be quite cheap (less than $500 for one with a 12 inch screen; I saw diverging reports on its price, $429 and $499). They will also be rentable, $20 a month for education use, $28 a month for business use. They will have Verizon WiFi (not sure what Verizon will ask for data access and what usage limits it will slap on). This could be big. I can see having one of these for all travel. Maybe I will not ever get an iPad or a MacBook Air, like I have been tempted many times to do.

UPDATE: more information in this post.

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Philosophy Science Society

David Hume just turned 300 two days ago

I thought of commemorating the event but Crooked Timber has already done an excellent job of it, so I decided I would just link to it.

Categories
Life

2011 Webby Awards

You will find them here and you will probably marvel along with me that this is their 15th year already.

Random intriguing site among the (many) winners: the99percent.com with this sample article to whet your appetite.

Hat tip to David Pescovitz on Boing Boing.