Daily Archives: September 14, 2010
Movie: Layer Cake
I had to keep walking around, doing the shark maneuver — keep moving or die — for my back on Sunday, so I put on TV to occupy me and came across this movie called Layer Cake. This is a … Continue reading
David Thompson Email Exchange
Ah, how the brain works. I recalled an exchange I had with someone from Busted Flush Press a while ago. I dug into my YahooMail. It was David Thompson himself emailing me.
Filed under Uncategorized
Barnes & Noble To Intel’s New AppUp Store?
Intel unveiled a weird thing today — an app store for netbooks(!), called AppUp. Are netbooks even still being made? At any rate, Chippy from Carrypad/UMPC Portal is attending the Intel Developer Forum and tweeted this tidbit: Barnes and Noble … Continue reading
Filed under eBooks: General
Gangster Banks
Big Bank Backs Down — For Now; Halts Foreclosure on Cancer Patient’s Home as Congressman Leads Vigil Evictions of people like Naa-Anoror Okai and James Tillory. “I have proof that my bank changed my income, my marital status, and my … Continue reading
Filed under Collapse, Pottersville
A Trio Of Weird Kindle eBooks
Reading can’t be Serious all the time. Even the most grim writer will watch a B-movie for pleasure. And so it is with reading books too. Here are three very, very strange books at The Kindle Store …
Filed under Books To Check
R.I.P. David Thompson
Murder by the Book bookstore: It is with deep sadness that we must share the news that David Thompson passed away suddenly on September 13th, 2010. David worked at Murder By The Book for 21 years, and he made an … Continue reading
Filed under R.I.P.
Kobo Reader With WiFi Is Leaked
Nate the Great has the details over at The Digital Reader: Kobo Wifi revealed Putting aside the fact that it turns out the Kobo Reader is the same hardware as the fall-part junk that was the Cool-er, a WiFi Kobo … Continue reading
Filed under Kobo Reader
Book Design with Microsoft Word: The Art of Moriah Jovan — The Book Designer
To me, one thing Moriah’s work proves is that the books we see that look bad, only look that way because the author couldn’t work out how to make it look the way it ought to, or wasn’t as persistent … Continue reading
Filed under Book Creation, Quoted
More Evidence That eBook = Kindle, Period
New Kindle Exclusive: David Morrell, New York Times Bestselling Author, Makes Electronic Editions of 10 Books, Including a New Thriller, “The Naked Edge,” and the Classic “First Blood”Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store Amazon.com today announced that internationally bestselling author … Continue reading
Filed under Amazon Kindle, Digital Overthrow, Writer
Test The Brats Until They Drop!
Testing, the Chinese Way Other educators recoil at the thought of more tests. “The Obama administration is using the power of the purse to compel states to add more destructive testing,” said Alfie Kohn, author of “The Case Against Standardized … Continue reading
