Kindle!
It’s finally out—the first viable e-book solution: Amazon’s Kindle. This article from Newsweek covers all the main points, and gets a bit (too?) philosophical about the implications of this potentially...
View ArticleMicro-shafted
WARNING: Techno-bitching ahead. No content of general interest to be found in this post. I noticed yesterday as I was trying to update the work website that FTP’d files would copy over but would not...
View ArticleGetting What You Pay For
I had several reservations about the stunning Macbook Air when it was announced a few weeks ago. “An incomparable design, but a compromised machine,” I said to several friends. All laptops are...
View ArticleDigital Burkha
Engadget writes up a fascinating new product, the bizarrely named “CharmingBurka”: The kit sends a “self-defined” picture of the woman beneath to every Bluetooth mobile phone in the vicinity. According...
View ArticleBeautiful Imagery
Apple pushed its new version of the Safari web browser onto Windows iTunes users today even if they never downloaded Safari in the first place. People are crying foul, but the Mac faithful are pushing...
View ArticleNothing New Under the Sun
Brad DeLong goes back in time via Lexis to prove that there’s nothing particularly new or shocking about how things work in Washington today. This is not to say that we should just shrug off the...
View ArticleMigration Successful!
I’ve migrated New Contrarian once more, this time off of GoDaddy’s cheap (though decent) servers to a dedicated box over at MediaTemple. I’ve also set it up on a WordPress MU install, which should...
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