Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Clippy Gets the Axe: I can't believe it! Microsoft is actually making fun of its own @#$%##! "helpful" paperclip as it retires the hated feature in Office XP.  Of course they are treating the exorcism of this despised piece of wire as a positive feature rather than as something to continue to blame them for having foisted on us for all these years.  Anyway, they have three little movies and even a song available at http://www.microsoft.com/Office/clippy/default.asp 5:44:45 AM

Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds. Although the researchers started with the assumption that e-books would be just as easy to use as textbooks, they soon found that students had various complaints about the performance of the e-book devices. But students who used e-books did just as well on quizzes as those who used printed texts. [Tomalak's Realm] 4:58:34 AM

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