* Gearhead: Almost as good as paper * Backspin: Outrage and lust * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Almost as good as paper
In 1998 we purchased an electronic book, or e-book, reader called RocketBook manufactured by Nuvomedia. It had a great design (very comfortable to hold with good heft), a reasonable display (albeit limited to office lighting conditions) good battery life and could render files created in the company’s proprietary format as well as text and limited HTML.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Outrage and lust
Many of you wrote in about my piece last week in which I summed up 2006 as “The Year of Not Enough Outrage” because no one seemed to care much about disasters such as the ongoing Sony rootkit fiasco. Much to my surprise, it appears a large number of you are outraged but overwhelmed: There’s so much to be outraged about you find it hard to know where to start, so you find yourself exhausted before you begin.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gibbsblog BRB
My apologies gentle Gibbsblog reader but this blog won’t be updated until the end of this week as I’ve had to leave for a family emergency. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
More Outrage: And It Is Sony Again!
This week in Backspin I wrote about outrage and highlighted some examples of what we should be enraged about of which a number concerned Sony. According to a TechDirt article:
Earlier this week Sony proudly announced that the company had won a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for their motion sensitive SIXAXIS PS3 wireless game controller [from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences but] apparently Sony won no such honor … Ultimately the company issued a brief statement that blamed the mixup on “miscommunication between the two organization.
Time Sync #19: Torturing Telemarketers
This is outstanding! This audio recording is of someone named Tom Mabe taking a call from a telemarketer. This won’t waste much of your time … you’ll thank me.
Oh, and thanks for the link Kim.
