As every sentient being in the world knows, Apple announced the iPad on Wednesday, complete with shiny book reading features and an ebook store designed to compete with Amazon and the Kindle. During the iPad unveiling, Steve Jobs indicated that he had agreements with a number of major publishers to sell books for the iPad [...]
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These answers are still... LOSTThe long-awaited final season premiere of LOST is just four days away. This (warning: PDF file) is a thought-provoking list of open questions. While these five aren’t necessarily the most important, they’re interesting for me: 1) Who are the Adam & Eve skeletons? 2) Why do the survivors see images of their pasts when facing the smoke [...] iNevitable iPad iPostThe conference about the tablet was pretty entertaining, instant messenger buddies hanging on every slide, jumping from site to site trying to find one that wasn’t crashed and was updating quickly (Engadget seemed to win). It went on a bit long and we all chattered amongst ourselves waiting for the price. We tittered [...] Spartacus: Blood and DreckI will admit, I was dubious about the new Starz series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand. It had a few things going for it: I liked the HBO series Rome and the film Gladiator; Sam Raimi is the producer; Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+. There was plenty to question as well: I didn’t care for [...] And the Best New Artist is... Led ZeppelinI used to consider classic rock the bane of my existence. Its radio proliferation outraged me, because every station repeatedly playing Bad Company and Boston was simultaneously ignoring new music. Listening to a classic rock station was a good way to ensure you were never exposed to modern artists. Something odd has happened over the past [...] Music of the WeekI think my life pretty much has a soundtrack, I listen to music at work all day, usually radioparadise.com and my ipod in the car and while I run. I was bopping along writing some code last week when an artist I hadn’t heard before came on and got my attention (in a good way). [...] Purple and BlackMy introduction to K.J. Parker came in the form of her* first novel, Colours in the Steel, which I picked up on a visit to the U.K. around ten years ago. Colours is the first in a fantasy trilogy in which weapons-making and political machinations play large roles, and “magic” is poorly understood and rarely [...] Good Stuff for FebruaryAlthough the last few months have been a little light for me in terms of new books, the next couple of months promise some big titles. Perhaps the most anticipated is Blackout by Connie Willis, her first published novel since 2001’s Passage. Blackout is a return to her Oxford-based time travel milieu, and takes place [...] Tetrishttp://www.firstpersontetris.com/ those of you with motion sickness, beware! The Case For AvatarStop me if you’ve heard this before. Staggeringly expensive movie finally opens after months of negative press, proceeds to obliterate box office records, then starts to gain critical momentum as well, culminating in Best Picture awards. And it’s directed by James Cameron. Avatar has followed the same path as Titanic, wowing audiences with technical wizardry and [...] |
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