Archive for May, 2009

[caption id="attachment_1258" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Image: Jason-Morrison"][/caption] Amazing! Fantastic! Freedom! Democracy! Power! Glittering generalities are a form of propaganda that elicit strong emotional responses...

I'm trying to get through The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien's creation myth of Middle Earth and the history of the elves. It's not a long book, really, but it's very dry. In my opinion, of course. It's the first book on my Spring/Summer reading list,...

Have you bought a Kindle 2 yet? Yeah, me neither. But they're popular, and now Amazon is looking to pump some blood back into the newspaper industry by making a Kindle with a larger screen (say, the size of a sheet of paper): "As early as this week,...

Will this ever take off? You tell me. Sam Banerjee has launched a new website to explain his revolutionary printing style, which is designed to reduce eye strain and help dyslexic readers: In the ZigZagText printing style, alternate lines of text in a...

[caption id="attachment_1242" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Mission Accomplished"][/caption] You may have noticed the "Save Chuck" image I have in my sidebar. Well, if you don't know what Chuck is, or what's going on with it, let me clue you...

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