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Wired writer Clive Thompson has a thought-provoking piece in this month's issue on the general decline in fixing and tinkering and how it affects our ingenuity, our thinking, and even our spending habits:You see this on a personal level. If you can't get under the hood of the gadgets you buy, you're far more liable to believe the marketing hype of the corporations that sell them. When things break, you toss them and buy new ones; you accept your role as a mere consumer. "I think it makes you more passive as an individual," says Matthew Crawford, a former motorcycle repair-shop owner (and postdoctoral fellow in cultural studies) who's writing a book on the demise of mechanical aptitude in America.Hit the link for a few upbeat signs about the growing resurgence in around-the-house aptitude, fostered by magazines like read more »
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Wired's How-To Wiki takes a group-edited look at the digital camera market and how a newcomer (or, more likely at this point, a buyer replacing their first, outdated model) can parse all the features and statistics to come out with a reasonable bargain. Their advice on megapixels, one of the most hyped features on any camera, is pretty reasonable:Then there is the fact that even a 3.1 MP camera, which is obsolete for non-camphones, can take a perfectly passable 6" by 8" photograph. The current standard for the low end of consumer digital cameras is between 5 and 7 megapixels, allowing flawless 8x10s. Really, when any camera you buy lets you print 8x10s, do more mexapixels matter?Not everyone's going to be looking for a bargain camera, of course, but Wired's wiki is a good read for anyone trying to reason out the difference between two mo read more »
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SUVs, an acronym for sport utility vehicles, are facing a hard time
from all quarters. Known somewhat unaffectionately in many quarters as
Chelsea tractors for the fact that although they were designed with
their off road capabilities in mind, they have turned out to be more
marketable to inner city mothers on the school run, they have received
an unremittingly bad press over the past few years. But what have SUVs
done to deserve this bad hype and are things about to change?
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Rajneeti,
the much hyped film by Prakash Jha with politics as its main flavor is
due for release on coming Friday. The film according to the ace
director is mostly focused on stress in relationships, balancing power
strategies and the dirtiness in elections and politics.
It is an effort to present the hidden dubious scandals and
controversial issues in politics. Leading actors from Bollywood like
Nasseruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, Ajay Devgan, Manoj Bajpai, Ranbir
Kapoor. Katrina Kaif and Sarah Thompson are a part of this film. Arjun
Rampal has got a read more »
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