Wondering about the financial health of B&N
Much more positive than what I reported here. I am quite happy to see this. While I do not have a strong attachment to B&N itself, competition in the book and ebook marketplaces is good for the consumer. I own an Amazon Kindle, but the way to be sure Amazon keeps focused on the consumer is to have it constantly worried about competitors.
At 80beats
I have often wondered if such a thing would be possible, and what the consequences would be.
Irish Class, January 3, 2011
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While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is celebrating his $1 million-plus book deal on a 600-acre estate and enjoying his status as a lefty fringe hero, former cartoonist Molly Norris is in hiding.
The moral of this column is that in today’s world, cartoons, if they target Islam, can be more hazardous to your health than crossing the mighty U.S. government and its allies.
AppleInsider: Apple slows iPad production, Kindle matches shipments.
Both devices are doing very, very well.
From iReaderReview.
Illustration by Stephanie Fox. Research by Nivair Gabriel.
At io9, with an explanation of why Star Trek was not included.
Via Universe Today.
At Convergence this past July they showed Mission to Mars with a live running commentary by a Physics professor and a JPL Systems Engineer. It was hilarious.
At Made by Kindle.
Made by Hand: Furniture Projects from the Unplugged Woodshop (an excellent book, BTW) is now available in a Kindle Edition. You can read about non-electric woodworking on an electronic device!
BTW, I already have a copy of the hardcover edition, so I am not going to buy it for my Kindle.
Fire from the heavens in early medieval Ireland
[….] lightning has always had a special role in the Christian tradition. Seen as one of the instruments of God’s wrath, it was known to the Church Fathers (via the classical tradition) as ‘fire from the heaven’.
St Michael, the Archangel of war, was said to use it. And, across the medieval world, though especially among Celtic-speaking peoples, special shrines were built to Michael with lightning in mind.
Churches or hermitages were dedicated to the Archangel high on cliff-sites or coastal islands with a simple logic. It was there that lightning was most likely to strike and it was there that the hermit could come closest to God’s divine anger.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 