The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
QuarkXPress was first released on this day in 1987
QuarkXPress 1.0 — the first stable iteration of the desktop publishing platform — was first released on this day — March 31, 1987.
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The iPhone SE
turns 8 today
The iPhone SE was first released today – March 31 – in 2016.
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The iPhone SE
turns 8 today
The iPhone SE was first released today – March 31 – in 2016.
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Breakfast in America
was released on this day in 1979
Breakfast in America – the sixth studio album released by Supertramp – was released on this day – March 29 – in 1979 by A&M Records.
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A world dominated by the technologies of industrial society is fundamentally more detrimental than beneficial to human happiness and survival.
~ Kirkpatrick Sale
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At the heart of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century there was an almost miraculous improvement in the tools of production, which was accompanied by a catastrophic dislocation of the lives of the common people
― Karl Polanyi
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think.
― Michel Foucault
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Facebook expanded to the
United Kingdom on this day in 2005
Facebook expanded to the United Kingdom on this day – March 10 – in 2005.
The University of Surrey, the University og Cambridge and the University of Oxford were the first three British schools to gain access to Facebook.
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