Wirearchy

…. here’s one of the first signals about nano-technology’s impact on our lives.
Clemson University researchers say coating makes clothing ’self-cleaning’
By PAMELA HAMILTON
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Skip the laundry detergent.
Clemson University researchers say they have created a coating that can be integrated into virtually any fabric, allowing dirt to be released when water is applied.
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I’m so glad James Wolcott started blogging. I find his writing to be thoughtful, amusingly cranky (if not curmudgeonly), and he has a true cultural critic’s eye for the telling cues about life in a given society and culture.
In this excerpt for a recent blog post, he offers us a view into what so [...]

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… a writer named William Lind offers us his point of view on the mounting stubborness of resistance, and rising US death toll, in Iraq. He wonder what the US can and will do, but of course we already know.
GW Bush is first and foremost a man of resolve … he has told us [...]

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The blog JOHO has a brief piece on a relatively new service called Blog Explosion, which is sort-of like a Yellow Pages category-ordered directory of blogs.
JOHO readers who have tried Blog Explosion left several comments, generally noting it’s early-stage randomness with respect to the blogs it helps you find left something to be desired (although [...]

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…. to PWAKs (People Who Actually Know Stuff).
Here’s a transcript on Smart-Wing Radio of an interview with Thomas de Zengotita, who is a contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine, teaches journalism at Columbia University, and is coming out with a book in the spring of 2005 titled either Media-ted or The Flattered Self: The [...]

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