I'm surprised nobody's linked the music video for Muse's "Knights of Cydonia" yet. I would totally watch that if it were actually a movie.

I know I can't be the only one whose first thought was that the robot looks awfully Dalek-esque...

Aside from the portability issues, there's another issue I'm surprised nobody's even mentioned yet.

With plain text and basic HTML, you've got a document that's intrinsically accessible to the blind, the dyslexic, those with poor eyesight, those with neurological quirks affecting their visual processing... and so on, and so forth. It's accessible to a very wide segment of the population which might even find it more useful than the dead-tree version of the book.

This image-based presentation, however, is even less accessible than a hardcopy.

Just from my own very limited experience playing with it, I can't even zoom the thing to a size that's comfortable to read on my monitor without it becoming, as someone already mentioned, incredibly pixelated— something that even reading glasses won't help, because of course, the clarity is limited by the pixels on screen! And forget about adjusting the color scheme and font to something that I find easier to read, another nice benefit that e-text offers (and which I make quite frequent use of) that print simply doesn't.

I knew this ad looked familiar, and with some Googling, I realized why: Xeni posted about the same ad back in February of last year.

But it was totally worth a re-post. ;-)

SPT3125: Y'know, I think you're on to something here. The first result for "鱿鱼" (squid), as seen in #18, is also from Wikipedia.

This whole fiasco is reminding me of another case of copyright cluelessness from back in 2003, when the Business Software Alliance sent a cease-and-desist notice to the University of Muenster in Germany for what they believed was an illicit copy of Microsoft Office... but which turned out to be OpenOffice. Oops.