erleellis - Slashdot User

Comment: Simple answer: No (I returned mine) (Score 3, Interesting) 263

by erleellis on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:46PM (#28573987) Attached to: Is the Kindle DX Worth the Money?

From one academic-paper-reading-geek to another: Don't waste your time with the Kindle DX. I am a professor and did order one- with very high hopes of going beyond paper! To warn others, I also posted a review of my experience with the Kindle DX on my blog: http://ecotope.org/blogs/post/Kindle-DX-Not-ready-for-Academic-users.aspx But there was no way to really use the thing the way you need to if you are an academic-paper-reading-geek! I returned it after about a week. Maybe next year there will be a machine with the right stuff! I hope so!

+ - Web Graphic Design for Geeks 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09, 2008 @11:52AM

An anonymous reader writes "I'm a competent geek running a one-man-show for a small business. I do everything IT in this company: servers, email, desktop support, manage Ethernet switches, cash registers, inventory database, and the company web site. My boss has asked me to "punch up" the web site to make it more appealing. Although I can hold my own with HTML, PHP and a couple SQL products, graphic design isn't one of my strengths. I'm looking for some advice on how to "pimp my site" a bit, without making it overstimulating for the webophobic. It's also important that it conform to ADA accessibility guidelines.

In particular, I'm looking for:

* books or tutorial web sites that teach the basics of good graphic design — how to make it more appealing without losing the ability to communicate effectively

* suggestions for tools to use to make this more efficient (Windows or Linux are OK)

I'm most interested in hearing from those of you who have graphic design education or experience."

Science Daily: Environmental Researchers Propose Radical 'Human-centric' Map Of The World-> 0

From feed by sdfeed on Monday November 26, 2007 @01:12PM

Ecologists pay too much attention to increasingly rare "pristine" ecosystems, say some researchers. They assert that the current system of classifying ecosystems into biomes (or "ecological communities") like tropical rainforests, grasslands and deserts may be misleading. Instead, they propose an entirely new model of human-centered "anthropegenic" biomes.
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