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The Kindle DX wants to ruin my week
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Last week my brand new Kindle 2 arrived, and for the past few days I’ve been blissfully downloading books and reading them every chance I get. Then, I started seeing reports of a rumored new Kindle, and I became nervous: “A new one? Already? But the Kindle 2 just came out in February! Who would do such a thing?”
When the announcement of the Kindle DX happened on Wednesday, I was besieged with Twitter messages asking if I was pissed that I just paid $359 for a brand new Kindle 2 when Amazon released a new one that next week. Instantly, my mind went into defensive mode: “No, of course not! This one is huge, and more expensive! I don’t even read textbooks!” But a the same time, the early-adopter bug was chittering in my ear that I now owned an inferior product. Lets take a look at this handy graph on Amazon:
OK, so it has its pros: PDF support without conversion and the rotating display would be pretty sweet, plus the larger display. But are those features really worth the uptick in price, which I already believe to be quite inflated? Not for me!
Side note: I talked a lot of smack about e-book readers on the iPhone on last weeks TWiT, but I’ve had a change in heart. While it still hurts my eyes after a while, the Kindle iPhone app (iTunes link here) is really cool. I read almost an entire book on it yesterday while I was between takes at a video shoot, and it was great.
These are a few of my favorite things (today, and in 9 seconds)
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BuzzFeed 9 Seconds 5/5/09 from BuzzFeed on Vimeo.
BuzzFeed asked me to pick a few of my favorite stories from today and try to recap them in nine seconds! I was a little rushed at the end as the clock started ticking down, but I got it all out. It was fun to edit some video again, it’s been a while since I’ve tinkered with good ol’ iMovie. In case you were wondering, the brief theme song is a snippet of Jonathan Coulton’s “Tom Cruise Crazy” (which is one of my favorite songs of his).
If you haven’t checked out BuzzFeed yet, you should. It’s where I probably spend 90% of my free internet time.
Links:
Legolas
India’s First Pornstar
How To Make A Nigerian Money Scammer Go Away
The Trilogy Meter
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I tend to read books in trilogies (or trilogies of trilogies) but this graph from DanMeth.com about movie threesomes (and how they stack up) made me giggle. Do you agree with his assessments? I have to say that I disagree very strongly with Jurassic Park, but I’m dinosaur biased. OK, maybe the last two movies in that series sucked, but still.
via BuzzFeed
The CollegeHumor show is going to be AWESOME
27There is nothing I don’t love about the trailer for the new CollegeHumor show on MTV. Maybe it’s because Jake and Amir are in it. Or maybe it’s because I honestly have no idea what they do at work all day. Possibly it’s because The Hills is on hiatus and The City just ain’t cutting it and dammit I need something to fill the void.
Anyhow, the hilarity begins on MTV on February 8th at 9:30 PM.