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    The Mercury's Rising. Again.

    • Date: May 30, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="This image from Mercury mission number four taken on Sept. 13, 1961 is just one of the many images that was written on by engineers. Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University."][/caption] On May 16th, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral to watch the Endeavor, the NASA space shuttle,

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    Both Sides Now

    • Date: April 13, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Candice Bergen, October 1981, LIFE Magazine, © Time Inc."][/caption] Most of us know what it’s like to be the subject of a photograph and to take one, to be seen and to see. But some of us, due to unusual circumstances, know more about that than others. In her  1984 autobiography, Knock Wood, Candice Bergen wrote with

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    Made You Look!!!

    • Date: July 8, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7261" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Advertisement on Fifth Avenue in New York City, 2010, Photo courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] You’ve probably noticed, in recent years, that in order to attract shoppers’ attention retail establishments have been filling both exterior and interior display spaces with big, colorful, and evocative

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    Saving Face About Saving Data

    • Date: November 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Sorry, We're Open, by mofo, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Back in May, I wrote about a controversy that surfaced in Europe after privacy advocates revealed that in the act of collecting photographic images for its Street View application, Google was also scooping up private data from the unsecured WiFi

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    The Billionaire Club . . .

    • Date: December 22, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3314" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Looking, May 2009, by Karthick Ramalingam, Digital photograph, Pentax K200D, www.makkaphotography.com, © Karthick Ramalingam."][/caption] What photography is, how it works, and the ways it has become indispensable in our lives are difficult to pin down. The medium itself keeps changing and trying to figure

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  11. I Am My Own Commodity

    • Date: March 24, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: While the economy may be perking up, the recession we’re still climbing out of has made one thing clear; if you need to earn a living, you’ve got to think entrepreneurially. Read enough success stories about former executives who’ve become cupcake moguls and a path becomes clear: take the dreams and skills you have, along with whatever compelling back story you can point to

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    Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

    • Date: December 31, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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    Coping With Stuff, Down Here and Up There

    • Date: September 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: We’ve all got storage issues to confront. And when we do, some people take great pleasure in getting things organized and others get headaches. A small percentage descend into madness, while an equally small group see and then seize the business opportunities that are generated by the need to keep life, things, and information under control. Over the past few weeks, the

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    Google Halts an Archiving Project

    • Date: June 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.

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