As far as I can tell, the target market for both this (creepy ThinkGeek product page notwithstanding) and the Oakley Thump are snowboarders and skiiers.

Can it properly handle PDFs yet? One of the showstoppers for me on its release was its reported shoddy (or nonexistent) handling of PDF content. It would be lovely to avoid printing out a stack of research papers every time I fly.

Marvin, old bean! I haven't seen you for years! I thought that once Chet and Erik got jobs you'd skulked off to whatever you post-singularity reality construct originally squeezed you out. Good to see you again, although I must admit it's a bit odd to see you with some of the edges burnished off -- your fist porst already completed and not a single exploded monkey in sight. Have you taken a Neanderthal wife?

My grandfather was a railroad engineer out of Dubois, PA. That part of the Appalachias is still, to me, some of the most beautiful country in the US. Gently rolling hills of endless woodland, stippled with granite outcrops and the occasional rusting steel belt town. I have friends in PGH who still spend a Saturday chasing a train through the green and smoky highlands that gave us pierogie suppers, black lung and the Whiskey Rebellion.

Dolly Sods, WV is one of my favorite spots.

I'm not at all a Microsoft hater, but this is getting ridiculous guys. Comments sponsored by HP. Categories sponsored by Honda. Posts sponsored by Microsoft. Boing Boing looks like a frigging NASCAR, and it's a big turnoff for me. I appreciate the need to pay bandwidth bills, but I don't think this particular way of going about it is working out very well.

Second this -- Gal Civ 2 is a great game, and one I had never heard of until last month. There's a hilarious GC2 diary from PC Gamer here, and Rock Paper Shotgun weighs in with a typically insightful take on the latest expansion

No PDF (even DRM-free PDF) == fail.

I was excited about the wireless capabilities, and while the price is high it's still within range. I guess I sort of understand why Amazon doesn't want to support PDFs (I'm sure that this device is a loss-leader for them). But if I can't read business documents, white papers and research papers on this thing it's just not worth it for me.