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Consider me armed and dangerous. My weapon of choice? The new Flip video camera from Pure Digital Technologies. And pure it is. Very few features, but extremely easy to use. It's pocket-sized and USB-friendly. For a full review, you can read New York Times gadget guy David Pogue's take here. (For the record, I ordered mine before his review ran in the paper. And I have the receipt to prove it!) I plan to shoot sci-tech, environment or space events in and around New York, but also take it with me whenever I head out on the road (which happens a lot). Think of it as part video blog, part bonus material, and mostly candid.

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Within an hour I found out through an e-mail circulated within the newsroom. I then contacted my wife (who is a fellow Australian) via Gmail on her iPhone. She already knew. Minutes later I was chatting with two of my friends online, and the word continued to spread within my immediate sphere of contacts and colleagues. Heath Ledger was dead at age 28. It's another reminder of how many people are plugged into their digital data wherever they are, and just how rapidly news can travel.

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