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The latest articles I’ve published this week around the wide, wide, world of web:

New Hippo Techie: Showing great resolution

Although billed by Apple, like everything else they do, as “revolutionary,” the concept behind Retina displays is pretty simple: pack more pixels into a smaller area so you get sharp, crisp images and text on your screen.

Read the full article at The Hippo.

Everyone’s a Winner!*

Participant RibbonA (very) short story of mine was recently selected to be part of a collection at the online Marco Polo Arts Mag. The collection is called 100X100 and features 100 stories, each exactly 100 words long. On the hopefully completely non-ordered list of finalists, mine was number 97. The actual winner, Vincent Fino’s “Mother’s Day Retreat,” is up now at the 100X100 page. I’ll let you know when my story goes live, but keep an eye on that page regardless. After all, any writing in the company of mine is sure to be amazing, right?

*Okay, it looks like more like one in five is a winner, since there were “close to five hundred international submissions.” Actually that’s not bad, huh?

Girls & Mobile Operating Systems

No, I’m not reposting that old story I wrote in 2001 predicting apps, though I am linking it, apparently. What have I done for you recently, you ask?

New Hippo Techie: Masters of their domains

Between January and May, anyone with $185,000 could apply to create a new TLD. Applications were taken by the company that administers the TLD system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). On June 13, they released the list of applications, complete with names and e-mail addresses of the applicants. Some of the more than 1,900 applications are predictable — four companies requested .search, and .porn makes an appearance too — but even discounting the ones made up of non-Latin characters, some are just spectacular.

Read the complete article at The Hippo.