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The quality of documentaries
I got cable TV for the first time in the 90s. It was truly revolutionizing. We’ve never had so much access to so many different channels before, and I think we were getting something like 30 or 40 channels. I clearly remember two things about it: Channels that would play the same movie over and over the…
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Comment on TWiT 204: Taste Like Dirt. Lending Kindle books
On This Week in Tech 2004: Taste Like Dirt, Dwight Silverman proposed an interesting idea: to be able to lend books in the Kindle. The book would become unavailable on your Kindle and available on the other person’s Kindle, and after two weeks the book comes back automatically. I don’t think that feature would ever…