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I saw the film adaptation of this book on the same day I started it. I was about 50 pages in. Although the movie condensed some of the plot for brevity’s sake, and obviously excluded some of the political nuance that Buckley captures so well, I thought that after seeing the movie, I’d more or [...]
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I read 20’000 Leagues Under the Sea when I was a young boy and thought it was wonderful (science fiction at its finest), and imagine my surprise when I happened upon an article one day that mentioned another book, The Mysterious Island, which served as a sort of sequel. Well, I would see about that! [...]
get the PDF Everyone wants to claim the GUI. The first iteration of Windows as we know it was released in 1985, and featured a crude—by today’s standard—GUI advertised by a frenetic Steve Ballmer on TV. Microsoft, however, was beaten to the punch by Apple, whose Lisa line of personal computers was the first mass-marketed [...]
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