iShaman - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Don't we have this covered already (Score 1) 244

by iShaman on Thursday August 10, 2006 @04:14PM (#15884148) Attached to: IAU Rules Pluto Still a Planet

Actually, by habit I place slashes at the end of URL when using them as a link reference. Wikipedia doesn't take those well, apparently.

Continuous Partial Attention 245

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 23, 2006 @12:11PM from the one-thing-at-a-time dept.

ubercombatwombat writes "While answering my softphone and checking my mail simultaneously I ran across the following article by Steven Levy. In it he writes about a speaker named Linda Stone and something she called "Continuous Partial Attention." I finally had a phrase for the reason I turn off wi-fi, asked people to turn off their cell phones and put away their crackberrys when I am speaking to a group. I suffer from this too. Starting today I am going to do something about it, brb."

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