Teddy Pig

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For those of you shopping for online eBook Readers out there keep this list of Adobe officially supported devices handy. Adobe ePub/PDF support and the ability to load eBooks using Adobe Digital Editions from any computer is the minimal standard in my opinion for buying these readers no matter what the price and I think even Kindle just started supporting PDF.

Psst! Notice how many of these eBook Readers are just relabeled Hanlins or Netronix? That’s why they all work the same no matter what brand.

THE ONLY OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED DEVICES FOR ADOBE DIGITAL EDITIONS

Astak (Relabeled Hanlins)
EZ Reader
EZ Reader Pocket Pro
Mentor

BeBook (Relabeled Hanlins)
BeBook One
BeBook Mini

Bookeen
CyBook Gen3
CyBook Opus

Cool-ER (Relabeled Netronix)

Elonex (Relabeled Netronix)

Hanlin
Hanlin V5
Hanlin V3

Lbook (Relabeled Hanlins)
Lbook eReader V3
Lbook eReader V5

Neolux Corp
NUUT2

Sony
PRS-300
PRS-505 (I would grab this one first if you can find one.)
PRS-600
PRS-700

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I was reading e-Reads latest post about how the British are gonna “do something” about eBook Piracy like the RIAA has not been saying the same thing since what the 90s. Blah blah blah!

Cory Doctorow has of course already checked that stupidity out.

Cory Doctorow: Why does Mandelson favour the Analogue Economy over the Digital?

Mandelson is standing up for the Analogue Economy, the economy premised on the no-longer-technically-true idea that copying is hard. Companies based on the outdated notion of inherent difficulty of copying must change or they will die. Because copying isn’t hard. Copying isn’t going to get harder. This moment, right now, 2009, this is as hard as copying will be for the rest of recorded history. Next year, copying will be easier. And the year after that. And the year after that.

And don’t suppose for a moment that other countries are in the dark about this. Right now, the future of the world’s economies hangs on each government’s ability to ignore the Analogue Economy’s pleading.

Countries that declare war on copying – and on all those businesses that are born digital – are yielding their economic futures to countries that embrace it, creating a regime that nurtures the net and those who use it.

If Mandelson wants to provide a subsidy to the Analogue Economy, he could order them to license their works to ISPs at a fixed fee, so that ISPs could opt in to offer Big Content’s copyrights to their users and pay a fair price. There are many difficulties and headaches with this approach, but it has the advantage of having a hope in hell of succeeding (blanket licensing is already used to manage copyright in radio broadcast, live performance, sound recordings and other technologies); that is quite a big lead over the mad idea that somehow British copying will fall off by 70% (or fall off at all) in the next 12-18 months.

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This has to go down as the WEAKEST Black Friday on record. Much like this special offer from Books On Board.

So for buying a $400.00 gift certificate from Books On Board you then “get” a Sony Pocket Edition Reader for an extra $99.00… Whoopee! That’s $500.00 more than I have to spend like that. Maybe everyone else has more money than I do.

I personally do not think anyone is really laying out that much cash this year.

Frys: Sony Pocket Reader for $160.00 (Today Friday Nov 27th Only)
Frys: Sony PRS-600 $259.99
Buy.com: Astak EZ Reader $240.00

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The silver fox of CNN has himself a hunky bartender boyfriend Benjamin Maisani seen here. The hunky one in the front.

Now I don’t think this will make his shows any more interesting. But at least… I can now just picture him getting plowed for points by muscles here when my attention starts to wander.

So now we know what Anderson is thankful for this year.

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So welcome to the team
Have you worked it out yet
The riddle I mean
Whats the answer
Its plain to see
Blue is blue
And it always will be

Sometimes I feel
That the whole worlds going mad

Mork and Mindy, Brian Hayes
Barry Humphries and Paris Grey
Little Neepsie, Chris and Do
Hello
Hello
Hello
The Beloved ~ Hello

From: Consumer Reports

Verizon
The highest-scoring carrier in the overall ratings, and a top performer in most cities we surveyed as well. Though we don’t list city-by-city scores for text and Web/eMail. Verizon’s standing in those is generally as high as for the voice scores. It’s prepaid service is as highly rated as it’s traditional plans. But… Verizon is among the pricier carriers.

Like we need another reason to buy a cool gadget?

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M-Audio ~ Studiophile AV 40

It’s that time of year again folks so here we go on some Teddypig techy gifts.

M-Audio makes some of the most legendary computer oriented audio equipment available. Their audio cards (Audiophile 192 & Audiophile 2496) are known for their pristine sound and then these speakers well they rock hard. If you ever wanted to crank up your computer and rock out here are the speakers for you. Pure sound and lots of power. The price is not bad for a sound that rivals a living room set of speakers. Shop around though M-Audio is an established company and this equipment has been out for awhile so you can find deals and they are worth the time and effort.

UPDATE!
OK they just showed up… We plugged these babies into the new Mac Mini I got and holy shit! Amazing sound and loud like a dance floor and the bass is pumping without needing one of those huge boxes under the table to gather dust. They really are worth the price and I don’t think I will getting any other speakers for a long time coming. I am blown away in a take me out dancing I feel the beat way.

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The Hanky Code for iPhone

Yeah, I thought the same thing too when I dropped acid back in 1982… This is so WRONG!

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Elisa Rolle: Rainbow Cover Awards

Dang it Elisa! You know I have a weakness for great cover art so there you go giving me this horrible temptation. So I had to go buy some of them.

Here are my favorite covers so far…

Jan Irving ~ The Janitor
From: Loose Id
Cover By: April Martinez

Rowena Sudbury ~ The King’s Tale
From: Dreamspinner Press
Cover By: Mara McKennen

Thom Lane ~ Dark Heart
From: Loose Id
Cover By: Anne Cain

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Speak It’s Name: Advent Calendar

Oh goody! I like these things, I hope there is chocolate involved.

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Mrs Giggles: Harlequin Horizons’s unintentional comedy

“Commedia dell’arte was concerned mostly with disgraceful love intrigues, clever tricks to get money or outwit some simpleton.”

My own search found this…

A rigid convention of the commedia dell’arte is the periodic intrusion of Harlequin, who interrupts the play with low buffoonery.

I have to agree with SFWA… SFWA on Harlequin Horizons

SFWA does not believe that changing the name of the imprint, or in some other way attempting to disguise the relationship to Harlequin, changes the intention