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Friday funnies – seen on twitter
Friday funnies – seen on twitter

lol – perfect commentary on IoT pic.twitter.com/h6mH2Lg8ri — Stacey Mulcahy (@bitchwhocodes) October 1, 2014 wbm312 Oct 05, 1:19pm Data is vs. Data are: xkcd.com/1429/  || @Mallikarjunan @KateElliottSFF A sysadmin sees the inevitability that they all used a glass, even though what they needed was a mug. — Suzanne Palmer (@zanzjan) October 2, 2014 Love this. MT @joycecaroloates…

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Should academic iPad content cost less than paper texts?
Should academic iPad content cost less than paper texts?

Electronic school materials, interactive content available for use on iPads, could save thousands of dollars for schools and students. I agree the cost-savings is beneficial, but what about the other side of that coin? Authors of grade ten geology textbooks usually aren’t rockstar-rich.  Are educational publishing houses truly making enormous profits at $73 per textbook?…

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Best of Q2 2012: two top quartets of posts
Best of Q2 2012: two top quartets of posts

Second Quarter Recap 2012. Here are the four most popular posts from the Cersys Blog during the second quarter of 2012.  As in earlier top-ten lists, pages are excluded from these rankings. Only those posts are counted where someone actually expanded the full article. If just the top section was viewed in the main page…

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Purple rain: did Homer think the wine-dark sea was burgundy?
Purple rain: did Homer think the wine-dark sea was burgundy?

Now for something off the track of my usual posts to the Cersys blog: Four takes on the topic of color perception through the prisms of cognitive science, perception, language, literature, and history. Meet our panelists: What color are the sash and bonnet in this painting? Wrong – io9.com Ancient Greek Color Vision | Serendip’s Exchange –…

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