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On this episode of Spark: New Year’s Resolutions
- Spark listeners share their technological New Year’s resolutions
- Gina Trapani boosts her productivity with some New Year’s life hacks
- Spark producer Elizabeth de-clutters by donating her CD-ROMs to MOOT, the Museum of Obsolete Technologies
- Rick Prelinger archives ephemeral films (full interview)
- Clips from Are You Popular?, Molly Grows Up, and The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair
- An update on Cory Kidd’s weight-loss robot project
- Students at George Brown College resolve to learn to type
This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:
- “Oslodum 2004” by DJ Dolores
- “Auld Lang Dub” by mystified
- “Wadidyusay?” by Zap Mama
- “airtone/simplegroove/”>simplegroove” by airtone
- “clinch” by sippy cup
- “slumlord” by lo tag blanco
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Great episode! I found the typing story (listening right now) to be very interesting.
Thank you again
Stephanie
thanks, Stephanie! I think sometimes we forget how many interesting stories there are in older technologies; we get so caught up in the new, new thing.
Keyboarding might be easier for people if manufacturers didn’t keep moving the keys around. I would like to meet in person the clever chap who decided to put the [Sleep] key where [Home] was for years!