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Proud Bachelor Turned Marrying Man-Sort of
Helping gay couples get hitched gave me a new respect for a tradition I’ve been happy to escape [Newsweek] I’m a straight, single man, who, during Valentine’s weekend and for several days that followed, performed weddings as a deputized marriage … Continue reading
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Jumping In to Wed the Masses
[New York Times] WHILE Carrie Bradshaw in ”Sex and the City” agonizes over settling down, at least 3,000 couples jumped at the chance to marry during the frenzied first eight days that San Francisco allowed gay marriages. And I, a … Continue reading
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The L.C.D. Screen Wins Color-Obsessed Converts
[New York Times] IN the tech world, the slender liquid crystal display monitor has become synonymous with cool, making steady inroads against its rotund predecessor, the cathode ray tube. By the fall of 2002, sales of flat-panel L.C.D. monitors in … Continue reading
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Redneck Environmentalism
The farmers and ranchers of the Dakotas are ahead of environmentalists on preserving the prairie and fighting global warming. The first night of my visit to North Dakota Brad Crabtree fed me a hearty steak dinner-courtesy of a steer he’d … Continue reading
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The amazing keyless keyboards
I struggle with my keyboard and mouse every day. I’m an abysmal typist, and lousy posture has taken its toll on muscles and tendons, making input painful at times. Plus, keyboards and mice just aren’t fun. The PC has evolved … Continue reading
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Will you be assimilated?
Future of tech will make you look like the Borg “You look like a Borg,” people told me as I tried out head-mounted video displays for this month’s column. It wasn’t just an objective observation, like saying “You look like … Continue reading
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Our Common Journey
Towards Cooperative Environmental Monagement [View on Amazon] I began this book in 1996, partly as a retrospect on progress since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. By most accounts, the results of Rio have been disappointing. Though the … Continue reading
Posted in Zed Books
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