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Category Archives: low-tech solutions / alternatives

Real Books for Children

Long Live the Printed Word! With seemingly everyone going to eBooks these days, I hope real books are available for kids forever. These are highly recommended board books for young children. Goodnight Moon and Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? just wouldn’t be the same on an eReader handheld device. Kids deserve the [...]

Radio vs Internet and Satellite Radio Traffic Reports

[Originally Published 11/25/2009 -- Updated] I am strongly against people using hand-held devices while driving. Besides besides being very dangerous to read while driving, Internet traffic reports can be inaccurate. I find that traffic reports received over the radio are more accurate than Internet sources. Bad Data? WTOP’s website has estimated delay times shown for [...]

Long Live the Wooden Playground

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Weekend Links

Hi-tech addictions: Are cell phones making people more selfish? Low-tech solutions and alternatives: And the Oscar Goes to…Low-Tech Movies Fashion designer goes low-tech, low-cost Low-tech System Helps Fayetteville Fire Department Track Personnel During Blazes has our Quote of the Week: In an age of high-tech gadgets used to map routes and track people, Fayetteville’s firefighters [...]

Weekend Links

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