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Nook Color 1.4.1 update adds Netflix, comics, landscape reading, and more

Android: A visual history | The Verge

Kindle Touch compared to Nook Simple Touch, Kobo Touch, and Kindle 4 – Marco.org

He’s trying to make the point that the only path to success in the software industry is to work insane hours, sleep under your desk, and give up your one and only youth, and if you don’t do that, you’re a pussy. He’s using my words to try and back up that thesis.

I hate this, because it’s not true, and it’s disingenuous.

What is true is that for a VC’s business model to work, it’s necessary for you to give up your life in order for him to become richer.

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. | jwz

Hardware is not long for this world, but code is forever.

Marius Watz, quoted in Dead Media Beat: applet death | Beyond The Beyond

Non-ASCII top-level domains are a thing.

I was a guest at Trinity College Dublin recently, and there was a talk, the night before my own, on Darwin’s influence on Joyce, given by a “genetic critic”. These guys look at progressive handwritten draft phases of literary texts, how they change from one stage to the next, and correlate these with correspondence and notebooks and so on. So you can see exactly when Joyce read Darwin, and then how phrases like “ouragan of spaces” find their way into the Wake manuscript. It’s very interesting. Afterwards I was chatting with the speaker and cockily asked him: “So what are you going to do with me, then?” ie with my generation, given that there’ll be little or no paper trail. He said: “Dude, we have software that can reconstruct every keystroke you made since the beginning of time – MacBook, floppy discs, the lot.

Tom McCarthy: My desktop | Books | guardian.co.uk

(Worth noting here too that the Guardian Review used to run a series called “Writer’s Rooms”, which I analysed back in 2007. The desktop as writer’s room is a near-perfect update.)

Future criticism looks a lot like past criticism, only more granular.

PC manufacturers are not dominant in the tablet space. Companies that provide a complete ecosystem — hardware, software, app stores, movies, TV shows, books and periodicals — are. PC manufacturers are utterly failing in the tablet market. The only thing you can learn from NPD’s report is that tablet market share numbers sure do look different when you don’t count any of the tablets that people are actually buying.

Read the whole post, and remember, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Daring Fireball: Fun With Numbers

The truth is that I actually felt bad for Kobo while writing this review — the company has consistently been the underdog in the e-reader race and it has always been overshadowed by larger competitors. But most of the time I felt badly for myself as I consistently waited for books to load, pages to turn, and the screen to register my taps. In the pre-Fire and Nook Tablet era, Kobo may have gotten by with a poor screen, underpowered processor, and sluggish software for $200, but the reality is that the other options out there provide an experience that’s incontrovertibly better for the exact same price. I think the answer is fairly obvious: the Vox isn’t a contender in this new cheap tablet race; it’s not even on the track.

3.9? That’s the lowest Verge score I’ve seen on the site so far.
Kobo Vox review | The Verge