The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine

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Published Aug. 28, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
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When Good Enuf Is Great ... Entire markets have been transformed by products that trade power or fidelity for low price, flexibility, and convenience ... — Erin Biba ... Phone ... Net-based calls can be laggy, and they sometimes drop out in mid conversation. But they can also be free—even international calls—and it's easy to turn conversations into shareable MP3s. Skype now accounts for 8 percent of international calling minutes, and the service added nearly 38 million users in the

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Maura Tierney's Illness Prompts NBC to Shuffle Fall Schedule; Repercussions for Gossip Girl?

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Published July 11, 2009 at 6:02 a.m.
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The start of production on NBC's Parenthood , which was to premiere this fall, has been postponed for eight weeks "due to a medical evaluation that valued cast member Maura Tierney is undergoing," the network says in a statement ... "The top priority for NBC, Universal Media Studios and Imagine Television is the well-being of Ms. Tierney," the statement said. "We are unable to release further details, and ask that you respect her privacy at this time." ... As a result of the production delay,

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Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic

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Published Feb. 27, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
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Wired: What's the significance of the superhero? What's interesting about the iconography or the archetypes? ... Alan Moore: I don't actually think that anything is, at the moment. I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype. I've been distanced from the whole concept for quite a while now, but I've been considering it ... It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced

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