by David | Nov 3, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, reading & writing, technology
I watched with interest as Barnes & Noble released the Nook, an electronic book reading thing that’s pretty similar to Amazon’s Kindle. I immediately thought of Microsoft’s Zune music player, released well after Apple’s iPod had pretty...
by David | Nov 2, 2009 | media, photo, reading & writing, technology
As you may have noticed, October was a pretty poor month posting-wise here at limeduck world headquarters. I was therefore quite excited to see a new inbound link in my dashboard. I followed it and found another example of an all-too-common blogging phenomenon:...
by David | Sep 27, 2009 | eating, reading & writing
Eruv Yom Kippur. Butter, nova lox, eating the last bialy.
by David | Aug 23, 2009 | culture, eating, reading & writing, urbanism
I ventured to South Boston today to meet up with Fashion Blogger A. I was waiting in a cafe near the Broadway T and noticed a tragic typeo writeo error: Here’s the deal: Arugula is lettuce. Italians call it rucola. Rugelach are delicious pastry of Ashkenazic...
by David | Aug 19, 2009 | culture, economics, reading & writing
I’m a big proponent of the rights of authors to profit from the sale of their work, but I’m also a fan of the first-sale doctrine that lets me give away, lend or sell my copy of that work once I legally acquire it. So, while I am mindful that when I buy a...
by David | Aug 8, 2009 | culture, design, economics, media, reading & writing
The estimable Len Edgerly who produces a weekly podcast on all things Kindle ran a podcamp session called, “Will the Kindle save reading?” in which a group discussed the pros and cons of Kindle reading compared to paper book reading, and touched on some...
