Tag Archives: review

Kindle

My completely unwarranted review of Amazon’s new Kindle e-book reader, without touching one:

The eink screen’s light gray colouring looks ideal, and a bright white would certainly cause eyestrain. But what’s with the white casing? It appears distracting, like reading a paperback in a frame that covers the margins in bright white.

The keyboard is entirely too […]

Violence, sex, heroism, treachery, revenge

My microreview of 300: This is why God gave us Hollywood.

Daily Bookmarks

Links bookmarked on 2007-02-09

Yahoo Pipes
Great UI for the rules engine, like a cross between Automator and Quartz Composer
Italian made Oxygen Lepton Electric Moped
Lepton dealer

Sinaisky in St. Louis

Just some brief observations from tonight’s performance of the SLSO:
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet has been made cliche, so it’s a little difficult to get involved with. But Vassily Sinaisky, the guest conductor, was so enthusiastically animated and the entirety of the strings were so dead-on that this performance was surprisingly fun.
The Playbill had be […]

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Links bookmarked on 2007-01-23

The iPhone User Experience: A First Look
Tog loves the iPhone UI and has the same gripes I do (no GPS, no inbox aggregation)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko :: You could call iPhone perfect
Andy Ihnatko in an unusual display of fanboyhood.