Bookeen – Cybook ePaper – the eBook reading device(Got this from the comments on Cory Doctorow’s article trashing the Kindle, over on BoingBoing.)
Amazon: Reinventing the Book | Newsweek.com
This is a great article (7 pages, so be prepared to spend some time on it.) on the future of the physical/paper book vs the electronic book. It’s mainly about Amazon’s new Kindle, but delves deeper into what reading may look like in 20-50 years, with books, and reader, and writers being interconnected.
It all sounds wonderful (to some people anyways), and I would love to be able to store a couple hundred books in a space the size of a single paperback (and wouldn’t my wife love that 😀 ), but while the price of the books are o.k. ($9.99 or less)(on second thought, maybe that is too expensive since you can get a paperback for $7.99 and the cost of digitizing a book is much less than that, $2-$4 may be a better price range here), I can’t bring myself to pay $400 for the reader, when I can get a laptop for that price. I think when the price of the reader drops to something like $99 (or even less), it may be more palatable to readers (myself included).
There’s, also the whole DRM encumberment going on which I find very absurd. If I buy a book, I’d like to be able to lend it to someone else, just like I can now, and maybe that’s the best argument for paper books right there.
Via Slashdot (Some good comments there, by the way)
This Revolution Could Be Televised On Fox
What amazes amuses me is that, even with the lack of balls the Democrats are showing, people still think we live in a two-party system, and that voting works. Or that the Democrats (or Republicans) actually care about what the people think.
This’ll be the new fad in dieting in a couple of years.
Australian researchers find hunger switch – washingtonpost.com
The black ship strode through the charcoal night. It carried no cargo except the horrid crew, made up of the riffraff of many worlds. Big, small, short, tall, one-eyed, three-eyed, no-eyed… Dressed, and undressed in various costumes of their native worlds.
It criss-crossed the world bringing strangeness with it, and it had but one purpose on this night, and ran full speed for the bright lights of the nearest port.
The ship hit the shore, and the crew streamed down the gangplanks, and ran up the streets.
Everywhere could be heard the sound of fists banging on doors, and the cries of TRICK OR TREAT!!!!
It was a good night.
Happy Halloween, everyone.
Damn Interesting » The Remains of Doctor Bass
An article about the “Body Farm” of the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, where Forensic Etymology, and Anthropology students (and FBI agents) study body decay. Interesting stuff, safe for work, but not for the terribly squeamish.
Maggots, MMMmmmmmmmm!
Check out Simon Redekop’s collages: then check out the rest of his site.
It’s talk like a pirate day!
I’m about half way there, since my wife says that I swear like one. 😀
WWdN: In Exile: an explosion of horrible, entropic freedom
“There were…errors.”
From Wil Wheaton’s blog, which I read regularly. Best, funniest post in quite a while–just the beautiful phrase in the title is worth linking to, but the post is just packed with this wonderfulness. 😀