I bought Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America for the Kindle after hearing NPR’s Planet Money podcast discussing it. Unfortunately, I should have simply stopped at the podcast blurb. The most interesting...

This is a follow up to my previous posts on reading Asian text on Amazon’s Kindle (part1, part2). With the 2.3 firmware update, the Kindle 2 and the Kindle DX now has the ability to read PDFs natively. If you convert your Asian text documents to PDF,...

My favorite charity, OCEF, is working hard to try to win the America’s Giving Challenge. They are dedicated to helping the children of the poorest poor in rural China get a basic education. There, many girls and boys drop out of elementary school or...

I am a skeptic when it comes to intellectual property, especially patents and copyrights. You are not going to describe me as some kind of patent defender. Whenever critics point out some aspect of the patent system that’s failing, defenders jump in...

Another trip to the local “Asian” grocery store (this time, Vietnamese), and another surprise. There were a large number of different types of “bufforlo fish” of all kinds being advertised in the store. Ignoring the misspelling for now, what I don’t...