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NEC MultiSync FP950 (White) 19 inch CRT Monitor: Crisp, Clear, Bright & Easy

Sat, 27 May 2000 21:42:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sylloge - I spent about 8 hours researching monitors for this latest purchase and found conflicting advice everywhere. All the major hardware review sites rated the same monitors very differently and even the "objective" metrics came out at odds with...

Flow: the Happy Academic

Sat, 13 Nov 1999 05:27:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sylloge - I'd be meaning to read Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi's (1989) *Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience* for a few years when I heard it mentioned at least a dozen times in a few days at a usability conference this summer. Given the context in which I'd...

Spain: Gehry's Guggenheim, Bilbao

Fri, 29 Oct 1999 05:22:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sylloge - I've been in a lot of buildings in my life. I reckon that on average I go inside one unique building per day (which is probably conservative). That's many tens of thousands of buildings I've been inside in my life. And I haven't been inside any other...

Sciences The Magazine: Science for Human(i)s(ts)

Wed, 27 Oct 1999 04:15:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sylloge - The Sciences is probably the best general science periodical, academic or popular, in the world.

Produced by the New York Academy of Sciences -- a diverse institution covering all areas of science from medicine to engineering, physics to...

Keepin' the Coffee Warm

Mon, 25 Oct 1999 02:57:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sylloge - The Philips Thermal Carafe Coffeemaker (HD5320) is about twice as expensive as the conventional glass carafe and hot-plate variety coffeemaker, but well worth it.

I've always despised the burnt acrid taste of coffee kept warm on a hot plate --...