Category: linking

  • History and Uses of Amazon Kindle for People Living in Caves

    I used to kind of like author Nicholson Baker. I think the first time I encountered his writing was a long essay in The Atlantic (going on memory here) about his quest to preserve huge collections of old newspapers that libraries were rapidly tossing out. As a guy who used to spend hours in the…

  • Despite complaints and DRM, Kindle is a good value

    I’m starting to see signs that Amazon has successfully injected some major mojo behind its Kindle electronic book program. Dare we call them green shoots? This morning, publisher, blogger and Chris Anderson-fill-in Rex Hammock had a great post up about how his Kindle was aiding his effort to re-read David Foster Wallace’s massive novel Infinite…

  • Interviewing myself and learning about CSS styles

    I’m not sure exactly how or why I got so obsessed with the hyper-cool interviews on the web site Waferbaby but I did. It just seems like the height of hip to offer a few quips about yourself and your online persona followed by a detailed treatise on what gear and software you use. For…

  • Civ IV: Beyond the Sword Arriving for Macs?

    (UPDATE2: July 31: Or YES, finally yes! Aspyr has released the Mac version of Beyond the Sword. See my blog post here.) (UPDATE May 17: Or not — As a commenter points out below, Aspyr has taken down the promo page and replaced it with the depressing text: Requested product does not exist. Alas…) Its…

  • Exciting e-book progress from Amazon and Google

    It’s been over two years now since I first starting writing about electronic books and e-book readers on my blog. At the 2006 introduction of Sony’s reader, I was concerned that the “long tail” of niche and out-of-print content was being ignored in favor of making the latest John Grisham best sellers available on an…

  • Extra megapixels in Canon 50D hamper performance

    I’ve written before about the digital camera industry’s misguided megapixel race, leading to ever more pixels crammed onto the same size sensor in each next generation of camera. The problem is that increasing the density of pixels damages the camera’s ability to cleanly pick up detail. So I wanted to call attention to a recent…

  • New Mac laptops: one step forward, two steps back

    (Updated 10/21/08) Steve Jobs and Co. rolled out their new line of laptops today, making big changes to the existing Macbook, Macbook Air and Macbook Pro models. But with one exception, the new models are more of a step backwards, a lost opportunity, than an improvement. The one indisputable improvement is with the graphics chips.…

  • Start saving my pennies: Canon updates 5D digital camera

    Well, after all that waiting for Canon to update its cheapest digital single lens reflex camera with a “full frame” sensor, the new model was finally announced today. The EOS 5D Mark II, announced today, retains the full frame sensor of the 2005 model and gets a host of amazing, 2008-y upgrades like the ability…

  • Fixing my blog’s del.icio.us widget without a widget

    I tend to read a lot of web pages every work day and they can all blur together if I’m not careful, or the coffee machine is on the fritz. So I use a couple of methods of saving and organizing my webstream, including Google Notebook for stuff that’s highly relevant to whatever project or…

  • Absolutely, positively no new Kindles in 2008

    I guess it’s a day for short posts! New York Times reporter Brad Stone did what reporters are supposed to do and asked Amazon chief spokesman Craig Berman about all the rumors of new Kindles. Berman didn’t beat around the bush: “One thing I can tell you for sure is that there will be no…