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Invest in Knowledge is a new, innovative – patent pending – initiative introduced by Kirtas in conjunction with the company’s Digitize on Demand program and retail Web site. The program allows anyone to subsidize the digitization of the world’s knowledge one book at a time.

Anyone who purchases a book to be digitized, through the Invest in Knowledge initiative, from Kirtasbooks.com will receive a reprint of that book, as well as 5% of all future sales of that book through that web site. Consumers can invest in as many books as they would like.

In case you haven’t been apprised of the situation, your addiction to texting and email is ruining your relationship… with god. According to Vincent Nichols, head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, modern friendships built around (or involving) heavy SMS volley, electronic mail correspondences, and social networking sites create “transient relationships” which put users at the risk of suicide. Yes, suicide. According to the British man of the cloth, using electronic communication to build friendships is causing humanity to lose “the ability to build interpersonal communication that’s necessary for living together.” Sure, it may sound like heavy FUD talk, but there is sense in some of his points. For instance, the Archbishop of Westminster believes that social networking sites encourage people to concentrate on their number of friends rather than build actual relationships, and they tend to view that number as a commodity. Anyone who’s seen the growth of Facebook and MySpace shouldn’t have trouble making that connection, but when it comes to SMS and email, your friendship has likely moved on, and lumping that kind of one-to-one communication in with the broad relationships of social networking sites seems like an unfair characterization. We put the question to our typically calm and even-keeled commenter community — are we doomed, or what?

Filed under: Cellphones, Internet

Head of Roman Catholic Church in England warns against the dangers of SMS, email, and social networking originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The ASUS Eee Keyboard is thin, sleek, and has a touchscreen pad. This do-it-yourself is bulky, uses a green backlight, and has instead a wireless mouse and numpad. Still, there’s something magical and all kinds of wonderful about this home project, essentially an Eee PC 900 shoved into a Sven Multimedia EL 4002 keyboard. All you need is a VGA cable hooked up to a monitor and you’re officially good to go. Itching to recreate this beaut for yourself? Hit up the read link for a plethora of in-process screenshots and some commentary from its maker.

[Via Liliputing]

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

DIY Eee Keyboard is big, beautiful, and highly coveted originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For all intents and purposes, HP’s Compaq Presario CQ60 is a pretty unremarkable laptop — but slap a $300 price tag on it like Walmart has done, a price comparable to most netbooks on the market, and that reframes the entire conversation. Computer Shopper has gotten some hands-on time with the machine, and while not spectacular, it seems to outperform Intel Atom-based machines. You’re still not gonna be able to do much more than check your email and browse the web, though, and the tradeoff for having a 15.6-inch display and DVD burner is a bulkier, less travel-friendly form factor. Still, this seems to do an apt job at filling in that gap between netbook and laptop, and we’re sure someone out there will appreciate or feeling nostalgic over that modem jack.

Filed under: Laptops

HP Compaq’s $300 laptop reviewed, makes strong case to bypass netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on November 27, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the games that I’ve always enjoyed doing on the computer are the image puzzles, where you provide an image and it scrambles it all up for you to reorganize. Often times the puzzle only has one blank spot that you can use for sliding around the different puzzle pieces, kind of like this game.

A new site, called Befuddlr, is almost the same thing except you do it with Flickr photos! They have several different galleries of images you can choose from, some of which are particularly challenging. Once you pick an image to work with you’ll want to try and memorize it, and then hit the “Befuddle it!” button. That will scramble the image so that you can begin rearranging the different pieces in the correct order.

It’s a little easier than the sliding puzzles since you’re not restricted to sliding pieces around, but at the same time all of the pieces have to remain in the image making it nearly impossible to try and organize them. If you find yourself in a bind go ahead and click the “View original on Flickr” link located above the image to see what you started with. Once you get all of the pieces in the correct order Befuddlr will let you know, and it will tell you how long it took to complete the puzzle.

Beware: This will quickly consume large amounts of your time without any warning. Play at your own risk!

Befuddlr Homepage

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