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"Wired: Why is it so hard to convince people, even when the science is so clear?Good interview with the guy who took on the British Chiropractic Association and won.
Simon Singh: Science has nothing to do with common sense. I believe it was Einstein who said that common sense is a set of prejudices we form by the age of 18. Inject somebody with some viruses and that’s going to keep you from getting sick? That’s not common sense. We evolved from single-cell organisms? That’s not common sense. By driving my car I’m going to cook Earth? None of this is common sense. The commonsense view is what we’re fighting against. So somehow you’ve got to move people away from that with these quite complicated scientific arguments based on even more complicated research. That’s why it’s such an uphill battle. People start off with a belief and a prejudice—we all do. And the job of science is to set that aside to get to the truth."
"OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.
OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth."
THE LITERATI™ BY THE SHARPER IMAGE OPENS NEW CHAPTER ON E-READERS: COLOR, AFFORDABILITY, SIMPLICITY & STYLE - The Literati by The Sharper Image - pitchengine.comwill ship nationwide in early October to more than 7,000 retail stores – including Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, JC Penney, Kohl’s, Macy’s and more – creating the broadest retail footprint of any eReader currently available.
WIRED Amazon keeps pace with a more competitive e-reading marketplace with a smaller device, more readable text, yet and another improved hardware interface. $139 price for Wi-Fi version will open the door for multi-Kindle families. Battery life is long enough for space shuttle missions.
TIRED Still the same DRM, no touch-screen navigation, the book-light case is too costly. Only those with tiniest fingers will avoid hitting the "back" button when moving the cursor down. Interface for newspaper and magazines still clunky.
And writers, brainwashed through years of Stockholm Syndrome, continue to have faith in a broken system that seems ill-equipped to weather the oncoming tsunami.
All the evidence suggests that online gaming will prove an irresistible temptation to those who already have the gambling bug (while probably making some new recruits.) Put a time-travelling Dostoyevsky in front of a computer screen and chances are he’ll soon be maxing out his credit card on a cyberspace roulette wheel, rather than completing the rewrite ofThe Brothers Karamazov.
And at what a dreadful cost. The most terrifying outcome of Internet gambling is isolation, estrangement from friends and family, estrangement even from the company of strangers in traditional casinos.
1. A cash advance2. A 6 month window for publication3. A sunset clause on the contract4. Clearly define which formats are to be used5. Copies of all files, including source files6. Electronic rights to the books are limited to one language only7. Series royalties on a per volume basis and on an omnibus basis8. Royalties should be calculated and paid every 60 days9. The files will be made available to the author to sell from his own webstore
Chrome OS tablet coming from Google and Verizon on Black Friday? -- EngadgetTegra 2-based Chrome OS tablet for Google with a 1280 x 720 multitouch display, 2GB of RAM, at least 32GB of storage with the possibility of expansion, GPS, a webcam, and the usual wireless connectivity, including a 3G radio
"You have probably heard the joke about the very amateur Shakespearean actor who, while playing Puck in the middle of A Midsummer Night’s Dream — was booed and pelted with organic tomatoes. The actor ripped off his mask, stopped performing, turned to audience and then shouted: “Don’t blame me, I didn’t write this junk!” … For a while, EPUB ebooks shared the same fate as the Bard: some hasty critics looked at some badly-made EPUB ebooks, and then griped that the EPUB format is a failure because it cannot make nice-looking books. Castro dispels that myth; her Chapter 4 — Advanced Epub Formatting — covers advanced topics including how to prevent ebook reading devices from overriding your CSS; how to choose the fonts in your ebook; how to create drop caps and small caps; how to control spacing and indents (essential when formatting poetry); how to insert images and their captions; and how to enhance (or, as some people [link to my Carr review] might say, increase the distractions in) your EPUB ebooks by adding links, tables and videos."
Entourage Edge Now Selling From Best Buy and Other Resellers | The eBook Reader Blog"... present the sf-nal and fantasy universes that impressed me the most along the years. I will consider only *series universes* that have at least two books out with one noted exception. There will be thirteen categories with a juxtaposition of sf and fantasy choices for a total of 31 series including ties as well as a "classical" category at the end.
No repetition of universes in different categories and of course only favorites of mine are included. I linked to our latest reviews of series books whenever available, next to Wikipedia articles and finally to Amazon and you can explore further the series and their universes from there. I generally used the series name since it's usually the best known one rather than the name of the world/universe."
The most obvious advantage of The Newspaper was the size of its display, which outclassed its rivals both in terms of size and elasticity. The Newspaper display could be read at full size or, when flipped open, twice its normal width. We also had no trouble reading copy when the display was flipped to half or even quarter size. One of our engineers even figured out how to make a hat.
1. Social Highlighting
2. Notes
3. Look-up of words
4. Ability to Tweet & Facebook quotes
5. Search
one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources
Mike Cane predicts that Sony might be next. From his blog: "If Sony does not announce a new Reader for the Christmas/holiday buying season, they'll announce their withdrawal from eBooks early next year - most likely in January, after they've blown out their stock and taken all the money from suckers."
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