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by Celia Hippie

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Once a separate nation, Texas has recently been behaving more like an independent economic republic than a regular state. While it hasn’t been immune to the problems plaguing the nation, the Texas housing market, employment rate, and overall economic growth are relatively strong. Chalk some of this up to accidents of geology and geography. But Texan prosperity also reflects the conscious efforts of a once-parochial place to embrace globalization.

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A one-eyed filmmaker is going to implant a camera in his eye to make a film from his point of view.ARob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has been unable to use his right eye since it was damaged in a firearms accident as a child.AAfter wearing an eyepatch for many years, he recently got a prosthetic eye implanted - and decided he wanted to become what he calls an "Eyeborg" - a part-human, part-camera cyborg.A"I was looking at the small camera on my cellphone, and I got to thinking about the Bionic Man," he said in a recent video on his website.A"I want to turn my prosthetic eye into a wireless camera."

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Apple’s glorious iPad which is supposed to be the salvation of eduction is being banned from US campus’s because its wireless networking is so grim.AThe overpriced netbook without a keypad, is having difficulty being accepted at George Washington University and Princeton University because of network stability issues. Cornell University also says it is seeing connectivity problems with the device and is concerned about bandwidth overload.

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The Centre for Documentary Practice is pleased to announce Khaled Hasan as the winner of the first CDP Emerging Documentist Award, sponsored by Canon Australia. Hasan’s story,ALiving Stone, documents the lives of a community of stone labourers in Jaflong, in North Eastern Bangladesh.

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The pic above is from a funny little article of images detailing the A to Z of comic book awesomeness. Favorite? "W is for Wolverine Wishing Wonder Woman Wasn’t Wasted." Er… yes… Carry on.

Architecturally inspiring neck-wear, via A Glimpse of Glamour

Although many people believe that Samuel Johnson said "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," he shouldn’t get credit for this one.

Johnson said something close, but he was following in others’ footsteps. In Boswell’s Life of Johnson, in an entry marked April 14, 1775, Boswell quotes Johnson as saying (on some other occasion), "Hell is paved with good intentions." Note, no prefatory "the road to…" Boswell’s editor, Malone, added a footnote indicating this is a ‘proverbial sentence,’ and quoting an earlier 1651 source (yet still not in the common wording). Samuel Johnson SoundByte Page

Just in case you missed St. Paddy’s Day: don’t worry, you can still own your very own shillelagh for if you need to knock a few ninjas out, the good old Irish way.A This baby retails for 98 bucks but can be yours for the… bargain price of 89 smackeroonies.