Charlie Stross: More on DRM and ebooks
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SF author Charlie Stross. Last week’s blog entry on Amazon’s ebook strategy went around the net like a dose of rotavirus. And, as we can now see from Tor’s ground-breaking announcement I was only just ahead of the curve: people at executive level inside Macmillan were already asking whether dropping DRM would be a good [...]
Tor Books Goes DRM Free
Yesterday, Tor Books announced that they were going to go entirely DRM-free, by early July, 2012. This is huge news and I’m excited to hear it. “Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.” Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the name for a software lock that publishers apply to movies and e-books that you’ve purchased. When [...]
In Defense Of Kitchen Gadgets (2)
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Glenn Reynolds links to Megan McArdle’s defense of kitchen gadgets and posts reader email praising a rotating pizza oven.
In Defense of Kitchen Gadgets
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If you really think that laborious food prep is that elevating, you should go back to the methods of your grandmother. Buy whole nuts and crack them by hand, picking out the meats and hoping you don’t accidentally get a bit of shell. Throw out the powdered gelatin and use calf’s foot jelly. Make your own confectioner’s sugar with a food grinder or a rolling pin. Pluck your own chickens. Render your own lard.
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
Steve was richly blessed by God and we were all richly blessed by what he did, here on the Earth.
Steve Jobs Resigns
Letter from Steve Jobs
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. …
An Open Letter to Pat Rothfuss
I admit that I like physical books partly because I can show off what I’ve read and which authors and titles I really like. There was definitely a plan behind which books are upstairs and visible to guests and which books are relegated to the basement bookshelves. Buying eBooks is nice but I miss having something to display. I think I’d like to be able to buy the cover art to my favorite books, to display on my walls.
This Kindle Case Changed My Life
Can a simple accessory change your life? I guess it depends on how easily the course of your life is altered. But this M-Edge Kindle 2 case did change my life in a minor way. Nothing earth shattering. I haven’t discovered a new direction, found new motivation, or rededicated myself to the assistance of aged grandmothers caring for bewildered orphans. On the other hand, I do read my Kindle far, far more than I used to.
Al Mohler on the Amazon Kindle
Do not think of the Kindle as replacing the book. Bury that thought. Bury it deep. Then go and hold a favorite book in your hand. Enjoy. Then pile 50 of your favorite books and carry them with you all day, through airports, onto airplanes, checking into hotels, sitting in meetings, reading in …
Peak Oil Myths
Michael Lynch, the former director for Asian energy and security at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, debunks some of the claims surrounding peak oil, in an op-ed at the New York Times. Here’s a few of the highlights:
On the claim that oil companies are extracting increasing amounts of water …