Little Dog

Via RGS

Introducing the Kindle Gutenberg Bookreader

The end-user license agreement is up at McSweeney's:

Congratulations on purchasing the newest iteration of our electronic readers, the Kindle Genius Browser. We have made this new device compatible with all previous versions of the e-book, but there are some new features we'd like to introduce.

$9,995

Etsy via Cult of Mac.

I can see forever

Greenpeace praises HP for killing most PVC from supply chain, Nokia still cleanest

From Greenpeace:

The 13th edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics rewards Hewlett-Packard for putting a PC on the market that is virtually free of PVC (vinyl plastic) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs). Only the power supply unit and cable still contain these hazardous substances.

Earlier this year, Greenpeace had staged protests at HP's headquarters in Palo Alto, USA, and at its offices in China and the Netherlands, in response to the delay on the company's commitment to eliminate these substances from its computing products, by the end of 2009. With the ProBook 5310m Notebook, however, it appears that HP has now re-prioritized its toxic phase-out commitment.

Tablet computer gallery

Wired's Brian Chen polishes off the history of tablet computers ... beginning in 1888.

"My ongoing Kafka-esque nightmare of dealing with Palm and their App Catalog submission process"

JWZ tears his hair out: though among the earliest Palm Pré developers, trying to get stuff into its app store is a pointless waste of time.

Apple devs think they have it bad, but at least Apple is strongly motivated to exploit their work. The odd part to this story is that Palm's app store is like a bizarre cargo-cult echo of Apple's: it copies all the wrong things (absurd submission policies) but none of the right ones (attaining hordes of customers before turning the screw.)

Beggars can't be choosers.

Windows 7 party time!

Watch:

Then:

Source

Rocky Mountain Bank sent your banking details to random Gmail account, got judge to shut it down

When Rocky Mountain Bank mistakenly sent banking info to the wrong email address, it demanded that Google tell them who owned this email address. Google: "No." How did Federal Judge James Ware respond? He ordered gmail to close the innocent gmail user's account. [TechDirt]

Deleting an account to delete a single email sent to it? It's not even the sort of thing one can map to useless "best justice money can buy" assumptions about the U.S. legal system. It's just plain stupid, a line of drool linking this clueless bench jockey's bottom lip to 1972's best guess about who should prevail when the interests of businesses conflict with those of the general public. This particular Judge, as you might imagine, has an interesting history.

Crunchgear talks of the coming tablet PC war (in which it is a participant.)

Mechanical Tumor

Watch in HD. Via Gizmodo.

From Rick Dickinson's photostream.

The contempt commences at 3:20

The introduction of the ROKR, from CNET's vault. [via Daring Fireball]

Gruber on how why Apple won't rename the iPhone, even though "iPod" is obviously a better name for the general-purpose pocket computer that the iPhone has become. [DF]

So, why doesn't Verizon offer nice phones? [Wired]

Wii price cut confirmed. It'll be $200 from next week. [Giz]

Really? Really! Great. Great. Great.

The latest Apple event, boiled down to its superlatives.

Zune HD teardown at iFixit

Like a well-traveled suitcase

While Lenovo isn't so slack, sometimes review units arrive with an earlier writer's "footprints" left unerased. Regrettably, I've never found anything interesting.

Shopped!

Apple is not known for messing up its compositions, but to quote John Brownlee on the Apple store's current iPod mockup tableaux, "Either the people holding it have elephantiasis, or this is a photoshop disaster." Compare!

It could take more than 20 hours to perform an upgrade installation of Windows 7. But for most, it'll take about two or three. [Chris Hernandez]

Fake Steve on David Pogue's curiously effusive Snow Leopard review

Just to be clear: This is absolutely not because David Pogue makes most of his money by writing "missing manuals" and other Mac-related user guides. Like this one, and this one, both of them for ... wait for it ... Snow Leopard!

Snow Leopard reviews: Buggy, glitchy, and David Pogue loves it! [FSJ]

No, you don't need a new one

I love Anil Dash's website, "Last Year's Model," which reminds us that the best gadgets are most likely the ones we already have.

Metronome

$400 Hackintosh netbook reviewed. It's good!

Gizmodo's Mark Wilson laments that by reviewing Macwind's preconfigured MSI netbook, he may have doomed it.

New Xacti's in Japan

Akihabara News has the details.

Christian social networkers' accounts hacked

Remember how some schools have told students to give them their social networking passwords? Here's why that sort of thing is a bad idea: one college got hacked, the list stolen, and the students' accounts ravished with obscene uploads and status updates.

Diplo-dock-us

The Herring-lights of old London

In Victorian London, two scientist-entrepreneurs set out to use the bioluminescence of dead fish to light the streets. [BLBGBLOG]