New Kindle Ad Shows People Doing a Lot of Random Stuff with a Kindle

A new ad for Amazon's Kindle popped up on Youtube this week (and at CNET)showing pretty people doing fun things.  This kind of ad takes me back to the good ole days, where my friends and I would grab a book and run around looking all goofy while we read.  And remember that time you and your best girl were in the malt shop and you corrected her for her poor choice in expensive reading materials?  Man, those were the times.

Check out the new video ad after the jump.



Is it also a little presumptious to just say, "The Book Lives On."  I mean, really?  Couldn't we just say, "The eBook Lives On Because We Took Down Our Competitors?"

Rest In Peace Dwayne McDuffie

Dwayne McDuffie passed away at age 49.  McDuffie was a mainstay at Marvel Comics, creating the character Static Shock and working on many renowned titles. 

As the Baltimore Sun quotes Dan Didio, McDuffie "left a lasting legacy on the world of comics that many writers can only aspire to. He will not only be remembered as the extremely gifted writer whose scripts have been realized as comic books, in television shows and on the silver screen, but as the creator or co-creator of so many of the much-loved Milestone characters, including Static Shock. The industry has lost a true talent." 

Well said, sir.  He will be missed.

Wall Street Journal Learns of "eBooks" and "Interwebs"

The Wall Street Journal published this article today, making it one of the last publications in America to put their two cents in about ebooks.  To show I am not here to bash the Wall Street Journal as being old and stodgy, a quick search of their digital domain network e-page site that is possibly hosted by Angelfire or Geocities shows that they have been reporting on ebooks as far back as NOVEMBER of 2010.  Yep, right on top of that, Rose.

Update: I had to review their convoluted search feature to find out the first reported mention of ebooks on the Wall Street Journal webberpagenets was MARCH of 2009 by using their "2 years" search button.

Continued Update:  Seems I have gone deeper into the online vestige of the WSJ online rabbit hole.  You can also set your own dates, which is independent of the whole "7 days," "30 Days," "90 DAYS" and the aforementioned "2 Years"  I set mine back to the turn of the century and received an article from December of 08.  At this point I stopped caring and went back to playing Dragon Age. 

Something Is Strange About This "Beloved" Librarian

Recently, the RiverDell Patch published an article about a librarian who was leaving her post.  Not too weird, until you look at the text of the article itself.  Twice, in the title and in the text, the writer of the article puts the word "beloved" in quotations.  Seriously, four paragraphs about how awesome this lady is and how the community will miss her, but there seems to be a subtle innuendo that the author is trying to pass on.  I think it is possible that the librarian has been holding this community hostage, much like the boy with the mind powers in that Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life."  This article is nothing more than a cry out to the next library of horrors she will inhabit. THE BOOKS ARE MADE OF PEOPLE!!!

Look here at the article.  She made them make idols to her!!!!

Update:  We hope Laura Grunwerg has a wonderful future as a "beloved" librarian.  She has a wonderful future in the field and helpsheshereinmyheadsomehowinmyheadsomeonehe-

Google's Mixed Media Might Murder MiTunes!

The Android Market, Google's current online application store, might be getting an upgrade of music and movies.  As the website thinq tells us, recent URL's for android music and movies have been showing up, directing for now to the Android Market.  One can only put two and two together to see that Google is going for four and taking it to the man, which in this case is Itunes.

If Google can do this right, they can be the first to trump that fruity company in mobile entertainment.  Honestly, I just can't look towards Microsoft for that anymore.  Microsoft and Apple are like divorced parents at this point, while Google seems like that cool older cousin that lives in a van in the driveway that knows Kung Fu.  At this point in my electronic endeavors, I wanna know Kung Fu.

Thomas Jefferson Books Found At Washington University Library

The Washington University rare books library in St Louis, MO made a discovery this past week:  Several of their items once belonged in the personal library of Thomas Jefferson.  As this article in the St Louis Business Journal states, this makes Wash University "the third-largest holder of Jefferson’s books, after the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia."


Man, Nicholas Cage must be so excited!  You can bet I am going to be there at the premier of National Treasure III: TeeJay and The Wash Have a Sleepover.  You just know that is how that library got its books.  Personally, I just like the image of Tom and George in pjs, braiding each other's wigs.

Cardiff Library Closes: Was a Doctor Involved?

A pane of glass fell in the Cardiff Central Library causing the building to close its doors, according to the Guardian.  The library opened in March 2009 to hopes that it would be distinctive in a land of already distinctive architecture.  No explanation has been put forth for why one of the glass panels shattered unexpectedly in the middle of the night.

No explanation until now.  While fighting a host of the Vashta Nerada that came through a wormhole from the The Library, The Doctor and his episode only companion The Perspective (an American reality TV star) escape the creatures by climbing on top of the Cardiff Central Library.  The pane of glass was broken when Perspective pressed his butt cheeks to the glass in an attempt to mock the creatures.  The Perspective is then killed and The Doctor then goes on to seal the Vashta Nerada into a volume of Encyclopedia Brittanica with a dead lock.  The Perspective's one time fling and fellow reality star Snacky then vows revenge and starts an organization called "Hardwood" to watch for The Doctor and other other-worldly threats.  We learn later that Snacky ate herself after she was locked in a sauna while slathered with coconut self tanning lotion and Hardwood was disbanded.