Did anyone notice how much Cory resembles the Big Brother poster next to him? I guess Big Brother is really Cory's big brother.

Gee, here I was thinking they were just very thin pages.

It looks like the machine can't do paperbacks either.

When will she be on Oprah?

Cory's typo ("undermine's") is a perfectly good excuse to plug Bob's quick guide to the apostrophe, you idiots.

I can't resist but plug 'Making History' by our good friend Stephen Fry. Great book!

Physicist manages to do exactly that: kill Hitler (or prevent his birth actually) and then finds out that Hitler was replaced by someone that actually had a clue on how to win a long protracted war for European domination and did. Oops.

I love reading books off of my phone. At night I snuggle into bed, switch off the light and I am still able to read. My phone fits nicely in my hand and is lighter than most books (though heavier than most other phones). Turning a page requires only a slight twitch of my thumb.
And when I'm getting tired enough to go to sleep, It takes just another twitch of my thumb to switch it off, and I can slide the phone under my pillow without fear of it getting donkey ears or a broken back.

I have used Plucker in the past and am using Vademecum (a Plucker replacement on Winmob) and MobiPocket now. These make reading very easy and convenient.

Let me, as a Dutch person, give some background.
Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who rose after the turmoil of the killing of Pim Fortuyn.

He is successful in attracting large numbers of voters because of his tendency to use strong language, a negative attitude and above all blaming the Islam for everything. This includes pleas to completely ban the Qu'ran from the Netherlands. The fact that this is completely unfeasible in a modern country as the Netherlands doesn't concern him, because to him it is not about actually banning the muslim's holy book, but it is about the headlines he gets from it in the newspapers.

The last half year he has been bragging about this film he is supposedly producing, as a follow up to the film of the late Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Submission.

Nobody has seen any footage yet but this mysterious (and probably non existent) film is keeping Dutch media, and Islamic governments abroad busy for a while now.

It would be fair to update this post as the original poster did, with the concrete feedback of what Dell is planning to do.

See:
http://www.nexdot.net/blog/2008/01/03/update-on-dells-environmental-impact/

@Dillo: Indeed I was planning to mention that too, but those are much cooler.
For the illiterate: Asimov foresaw a transportation system of multiple (dozens) parallel strips, where the innermost move at high speed while the outer ones gradually decrease in speed.
That way you can easily step on and speed up by slowly working your way inwards. It also is the perfect vehicle for exciting catch-me-if-you-can games.

I was mainly drooling about the location. I'm pretty sure that where he lives is one of the most expensive locations per square meter in the world. The man has a view on the Brooklyn Bridge for goodness sake!

I have one (also without the base, which does make it look eerily like a blender) and my son loved it when he was still small enough to fit in.

So I am a believer in the theory that the confined space makes the baby more at ease. It worked for him anyway.

Still, I wouldn't use it with that base, it looks unstable, we just put the tub upon a special baby-bath stand.

One remote for everybody? That's not just wasteful, that's dangerous! It will surely come to bloodshed.

I would definitely advise against taking any hollow book on a plane, even when it's empty.
A friend of mine once got taken out of line on Heathrow, into the lower bowels where the baggage lines run. The Police asked him to identify his bag and he did. They searched his bag until they found his plastich first aid box. Then they were releaved and said that the X-ray suggested that he had a hollow book in his bag, and he could go on his way again.

So they will spot you, and waste your time.

I would say what it needs is a good profiling mechanism, so that you can state what tastes you have, and apply similar segmentation to the scoring system. That way you would find out what people like you are enjoying and increasing the chance of finding musing that appeals to you.

Btw, a mechanism for determining a mainstream taste isn't necessarily a bad thing. Something should replace the big MAFIAA giants once they all crumble.

THESULLIV beat me to it. These sound like a cheap substitute for expensive robots if they are any good, and from the looks of it they aren't heavy enough to actually trigger the mines.

They are also ancient and you can buy them in the Netherlands for under €3 at any street corner.

But it is a deeply satisfying device on a worrying level.

In theory, Google's Android mobile OS should make this possible. It is supposed to open all API's to the programmer, so one could devise a program that would react to an SMS by taking a picture and MMS-ing it to the sender of that SMS.

It will look less impressive though.

Noen,

I read an interesting thought experiment on altruism once. I'm afraid I can't credit it properly but I believe it is quite well known.

Imagine 2 persons named John, standing alongside a river. Both of them have a brother Bill, that falls into the river, and cannot swim.

Now the one John has a gene that makes him care enough about his brother to risk his own life, jump in and save his brother, so he does.
The other John lacks this gene so he lets his brother drown.

Now the loving John's brother Bill is very likely to have the same love gene as his brother, so together, they will have twice as many love gene carrying children as the non-caring John, so after a number of generations, the love gene carrying people will be more numerous than the people without.