Mig's Journal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Up at 6.30 with Lynn. Denny and I are thrilled at the prospect of spending a week in Windsor. Leave with suit cases &c, for Bradford at 7.30. Pleasant morning and it becomes warm and sunny as the day progresses. Leave Bradford for London at 8.15. We stop at Leicester on the way and buy a copy of 'Forum' magazine which deals with all the sexual aspects of life. Some really filthy letters are published...
View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
For those of you who don't know, the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago sports one of the neatest exhibits: An entire WWII German U-Boat, captured intact. I shot my very first roll of film in that sub, on a school fieldtrip, using a little 126 Instamatic to snap Sylvania flash cube illuminated pictures of my classmate's backs while we took the tour. (Good photo composition being something...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 13/06/2009
More on this show later, but now I propose a moral dilemma: What's the better cover? A. Gary Frenay & Arty Lenin from the Flashcubes doing "September Gurls," OR B. John Wicks and Paul Collins doing "Things We Said Today" seguing into "Bus Stop"? I admit, I am torn.
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 27/04/2009
Kaplan Publishing has launched two new mobile apps, TOEFL Vocabulary Flashcards and TOEFL Idioms Flashcards, for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Kaplan has launched an iPhone-compatible version of its popular GRE Exam Vocabulary Flashcards application.
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 18/01/2009
We've all heard about the incredible growth of the App Store, which has seen more than 500 million downloads across over 15,000 applications. Much of the innovation (or at least, money) has come from games and other entertaining apps like Smule's Ocarina and Pandora Radio . But the iPhone is also poised to make huge strides in a somewhat less glamorous space: study guides. With gigabytes of storage,...
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