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Amazon Kindle……..ROCKS!!!!
This is the MUST HAVE appliance of the year.
Holidays are coming up, buy this for everyone. Use promo code OPRAHWINFREY to get 50 off direct from Amazon.
I’m recouping from some oral surgery and this thing has been a godsend.
How many of you have finished a book in the middle of the night only to want to pick up another book immediately? This is your toy.
As someone who travels 3/4 weeks a month, this thing is perfect. No more leaving books behind in hotel rooms or packing an entire suitcase of books. Without expansion – 100 boks + blogs/newspapers/periodicals.
Seriously. Buy one.
Now.
You can make notes with it, use wiki, buy books right to it bypassing amazon.com (or use amazon)…Read samples (generous sizes). Expansion slots. It is amazing. (Just buy a little light clip – the technology doesn’t support back lit light – but you’ll swear you’re reading on paper)
Hearty endorsement for the readers amongst us.
David :: Oct.31.2008 :: consumerism, holiday, technology :: Comments Off
I’ve broken through the Great Firewall of China!
Ok, there’s a reason I haven’t been posting…I’m behind the Great Firewall of China.
In China, there are heavy blocks in place to avoid the free transfer of ideas via the net. In a country as free as China, this is shocking. Absolutely shocking. But, I haven’t been in China the entire time. In fact, I was in a far freer land than China – North Korea.
That’s right, children – North Fucking Korea.
I’ve kept a written diary of my days in North Korea the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and will try to transcribe it fairly quickly. I tried to be brief, yet comprehensive.
Anyway, back to the title topic – I did a bit of research about getting around the GFoC and found that you can use a proxy server or a VPN – neither of which I’m incredibly familiar with. Anyway, I signed up for a service called WiTopia (which I found from an article by an ex-CNN staffer) and it was pretty damn easy to set up and get online, so far, free of restrictions.
Freedom baby!
David :: Aug.30.2008 :: assholes, liberty, power trippin', technology, travel :: No Comments »
We’re back online!
After a week of crap from Time Warner, we’re finally back online.
Up next – planning for my trip back into China and to North Korea. Tentatively I’ll be visiting Beijing, North Korea, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, and the Silk Road. Working on the flights now with CITS with whom I do all of my domestic Chinese flight arrangements.
I’ve also found some new services I’ll be trying out this trip for hotels/flights:
So far, I’ve seen wonderful prices on gta but the customer support is a bit mechanical (they have failed to define what a ‘single’ room is on three separate occassions). sinohotels has some hotels in the most remote parts of China and kayak/vayama have a much sleeker interface than expedia with way more international destinations. So far, so good.
David :: Aug.18.2008 :: Uncategorized, technology, travel :: No Comments »
SF MoMa joins the anti-photography brigade…
Saw this story via Boing Boing…Apparently, a photographer was forcibly ejected from the San Fran MoMa for taking a photograph with a DSLR from the 2nd Fl. of the SF MoMa. While we only have Mr. Hawk’s side of the story, it sure as shit sounds like this Simon Blint really is just an asshole. All of this after the museum changed their policy re: photography and explicitly allows photographs of its atrium.
(Image © Thomas Hawk)
David :: Aug.09.2008 :: Photography, assholes, liberty, power trippin', technology :: No Comments »
“Chertoff Misleads on Laptop Searches, Feingold Charges”
Not sure that this is going anywhere, but thought I’d post it anyway. Also, via Wired, a secondary inteview with DHS Chieftain Chertoff re: Cybercrime…good read.
David :: Aug.08.2008 :: liberty, technology, travel :: No Comments »
NYPD vs. New Yorkers
There are no words for this…
Actually, there are. The gestapo is out in full force taking lessons (or doling out lessons, as it were) from the Chinese. I really, really hope something gets done about this…And something will, I’m sure…Promotions, pay raises, medals, etc. How anyone could find a way to defend this (and plenty of people will, I guarantee that) is beyond me. So many issues at work in this one – just watch it for yourself.
You would think that the cops would be smarter than to unabashedly violate the civil rights of several innocent civilians…but to do it in front of so many people and so many cameras – it is TIMES FUCKING SQUARE…And then they were trying to cover up the whole thing by arresting innocent bystanders with cameras who wouldn’t leave the area. Shameful.
What kind of people are getting into and coming out of our police academies? It is getting harder and harder to support the cops…
David :: Aug.07.2008 :: Photography, liberty, technology :: No Comments »
Nikon D700 review from B&H Photo
B&H, if you don’t know, is king of the hill when it comes to amateur to low-end pro camera sales…I received an email from them this morning which included a review of the up and coming Nikon D700…
David :: Aug.06.2008 :: Photography, technology :: No Comments »