Happy Mutant Profile
scotty1024
Amazon Kindle: the Web makes Amazon go bad crazy
November 21, 2007 1:23am
Mistresses of GW Bush pinup calendar highlights the special interests behind the President
November 22, 2007 8:21pm
No friends yet.
Don't Miss
- BBtv -- S.P.A.M. Theater: The Proposition
- BBtv - Kevin Kelly, part 2: Bicycle Haiku
- BBtv: Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
- URGENT: Canadian DMCA about to come down again -- blitz your MP, the PM, and Minister Prentice now to save us from US-style copyright rules!
- NYU student shares his "virtual girlfriend" with the world
- Untitled 1
- Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
- #boingboing IRC channel open for Happy Mutating
Recent Comments
- godfathersoul said: "I would have to agree with the above statements about "reasonable compensation". In, I think, every ..."
- coldspell said: "@#2: made illegal by the US government or Chinese government? ..."
- DataWhat said: "I think the fourth one is wishing for a "stripper pole" WHEW! I'm glad I'm not the only one ..."
- coldspell said: "shoot. I was tricked into clicking on a Little Brother post. ..."
- Anonymous said: "#8 It's rather more insidious than this. They never made any LEGAL claim to the form or image of th ..."
- scottfree said: "...the roar of contorted pains, the interweaving of contraries and of all contradictions, freaks and ..."
- holtt said: "Oh yea I thought it was "my young adult novel Littl ..."
- Mike Estee said: "There are several problems with this law, but I'll just rant about the main one. This bill effective ..."
- holtt said: "Excellent read. It's like being able to slip a CATFIC into a seemingly innocent thread! ..."
- scottfree said: "UNTITLED 1 DISGUST ...abolition of logic, dance of those who are incapable of creation: unti ..."
the latest
- Cellranger: easy USB-powered cellular signal booster
- Video: He-Man and the Hulk sell motorcycles in Brazil
- BBQ Donut is a boat with a grill, not nature's perfect snack
- Andrew Kellett, "world's dumbest criminal," can't keep activities off YouTube
- The Flatmobile: if not the world's flattest car, at least the world's flattest Batmobile
- Ego's purse-like fashion laptops
- Skooba, Targus among first TSA-approved laptop bags
- Tom Chick on Wii Fit (Verdict: wretched for fitness)
- Nokia Cocking Up N-Gage Again: Must Buy Games Again When Current Phone Dies
- Indiana Jones Crystal Skull projector
latest episodes
- S.P.A.M. Theater: The Proposition
- Kevin Kelly, part 2: Bicycle Haiku
- Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
- True History: X Equals X
- Pesco and the "Eccentric Genius," Xeni gets zapped, ironic t-shirts: More Maker Faire 2008.
- Google and China's "Great Firewall": Fun with the Billboard Liberation Front and monochrom
- Cory Doctorow: Show us your "Little Brother" HOWTO videos, and "Dumpster-Diving Philosopher."
- Kevin Kelly: "Asia Grace," and A Thousand True Fans.
- BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack
- Speed Racer's "photo-anime" hyperreality: John Gaeta interview, part 2.
My first Boing Boing comment and here's what I want to know about the Kindle: where's the source?
Sony publishes the source to their readers, all the way back to the first Japanese only Librie, the day the binary ships.
The legal notices feature built into the Kindle lists off the open source projects that it exploits but I still haven't found the link to go grab the source for the open source binaries locked up inside it.
My other disappointment today: $400 and it uses the last generation e-Ink panel. I put my Sony PRS-505 (2nd gen US reader) next to it and the difference in quality is immediately apparent. I put my PRS-500 (1st gen US reader) next to it and the quality was spot on the same. I guess Amazon had to cut corners on the panel to afford some other feature and sell the unit for $400. Call me crazy but I'd think the last thing you'd cut corners on in a dedicated ebook reader would be the display.