Monthly Archives: January 2009

New Kindle

Wired: Amazon will host a media event in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City on Feb. 9. The timing and the venue strongly suggest that Amazon will use the event to announce Kindle 2.0, which industry watchers … Continue reading

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The Slow and the Serious 3: New England Drift

Damn – venturing out into the snow for burritos today was nerve-wracking fun.

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A shout out

Happy Birthday to the (still young!) Chimp Domesticator!

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Countdown to An Imaginary Country

37 days!

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Maybe it really IS an “insanely great product”!

Bulletflight: the Bulletflight ballistics calculator, which predicts the trajectory of bullets fired from high-powered sniper rifles by taking into account half a dozen variables including wind speed, distance, outside temperature and altitude. After digesting all the information, Bulletflight tells you … Continue reading

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Kangding Ray

Dammit – I’m trying to buy the FLAC release of Kangding Ray‘s Automne Fold but boomkat‘s down (what a logo, huh?). Wait – it’s back. The internet has trained me to expect instant gratification – I was getting really annoyed … Continue reading

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Beats the view out MY window

Astronomy Picture of the Day: In the shadow of Saturn, unexpected wonders appear. The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in giant planet’s shadow for about 12 hours and looked back toward the eclipsed Sun. Cassini saw a … Continue reading

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The surge is working

Three things I like! The Fun Years, container shipping, and general weirdness. More here.

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