Amazon today released the new Kindle DX with a 9.7 inch screen. I have to say, I wasn’t that into the Kindle at first, but this looks really nice. I may have to try it out.
For the longest time I have been waiting for Star Trek style pad devices. They are really happening now. I was reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban last night in bed and it sure would have been easier to read on a Kindle than with the actual book.
Amazon: Kindle DX
Naomi Klein was a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show talking about her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism , and how it relates the our current economic situation and the bailout. For a bit of background, her book is about how corporate interests take advantage of crisis situations to get people to [...]
General Mills Count Chocula Breakfast Cereal is available online. This was my favorite. I wanted them all, but I think I usually ended up chosing this one. I remember going to a market that we sometimes went to when I was a kid. It was a local market, and we don’t really have them [...]
General Mills Frankenberry Breakfast Cereal is available online if you’re having a hard time finding in your area. I always had a hard time deciding between this and Count Chocula. Amazon: Frankenberry Breakfast Cereal
General Mills Booberry Breakfast Cereal is available online if, like me, you can’t find it. I don’t understand why this cereal is not more widely available. Maybe kids today aren’t as into it? Amazon: Booberry Breakfast Cereal
Fareed Zakaria was on The Daily Show talking about The Post-American World which is now available in paperback. Fareed recently wrote an article saying that Pakistan is about to fall to the Taliban, and since they have nuclear weapons, this could be trouble. We apparently gave them ten billion dollars and they used it to prepare [...]
In the middle of the round table on Chelsea Lately, Chelsea Handler recommended a book to give to your mom. It’s by Andrea Buchanan and it’s called, Note to Self: 30 Women on Hardship, Humiliation, Heartbreak, and Overcoming It All. Amazon: Note to Self: 30 Women on Hardship, Humiliation, Heartbreak, and Overcoming It All
Jonathan Alter was on The Colbert Report talking about his book, The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Jonathan told us FDR actually had a panic attack the first time he entered the oval office because he was so overwhelmed. FDR also started the tradition of the president not stopping at traffic [...]
Taryn Manning was on Chelsea Lately promoting her band Boomkat’s new album, A Million Trillion Stars. Apparently she has a clothing line too. Her brother is her band mate and they also live together. The story of how the album was named is hilarious. She had a dream about Large Marge from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Large [...]
David Kessler was on the The Colbert Report talking about his new book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite It was kind of funny because David was so mild mannered he totally waited for Steven to give him space to talk before he would. It kind of [...]