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I was inspired by the discussion Marco Arment and Ryan Irelan had on the latest episode of Build and Analyze about the rumored “Kindle Tablet.” It got me thinking about the kind of device I would love for Amazon to make — one that I would actually consider buying over an iPad.

Few consider…

Ditto what he thinks. If I wanted an iPad, I’d have bought an iPad (well I would have found a rich person to buy me an iPad, but you get the idea!). Kindles and e-ink ROCK. Here endeth the sermon…

What did United Kingdom residents and British subjects living or travelling abroad read between the invention of the printing press in 1450 and the end of the Second World War in 1945? How, and in what circumstances did they read? Search or browse our database to find out… UK RED captures the reading tastes and habits of the famous and the ordinary, the young and the old, men and women. The texts range from books and newspapers to ephemera such as playbills and tickets, and from illuminated manuscripts, novels and poetry to tombstone inscriptions and graffiti. Entries in UK RED illustrate the diversity of reading experience and practice as well as patterns within particular periods and across time. The evidence of reading is drawn from a multitude of sources, including diaries, memoirs, commonplace books, marginalia, sociological surveys, and criminal court and prison records. Reading, however, is not confined by national borders. In recognition of this, RED has become an international project. To visit other national REDs, or to search for readers, authors or texts across all the linked databases, click on the logos on the right.

The main problem with the HTML Boilerplate is that it makes so many assumptions. All you can assume with a HTML5 boilerplate is that someone wants to use HTML5, that’s it. Assuming someone wants x Javascript libraries, Google Analytics, IE6 .png fixes, IEx conditional classes and all that other stuff is not what a boilerplate is made to do. A boilerplate should be a suitable starting point to which developers can add all that stuff if they want to. As well as all the script assumptions that are made, it also assumes markup. Although not by a long way at all, it starts building the site for you. The HTML5 Boilerplate doesn’t know what markup I want… A boilerplate should be added to, not subtracted from. The HTML Boilerplate just contains far too much. I can see more being deleted than being kept

WordOff http://wordoff.org/ COST: free HOW-TO: Save a Word document ‘as Web Page…’ to your hard drive, then open it in notepad, copy & paste the HTML to the form on the website NOTES: Does a good job, but doesn’t fix converted lists.

Twitter has just launched it’s very own image hosting service (powered by Photobucket). For a couple of years now we have been used to 3rd party solutions such as Twitpic ( a name synonymous with “tweeted images”), YFrog, Mobypicture and Lockerz. All these image hosts allow a user to upload an image (from their phone or computer) to be hosted by them in order to share that content with other users via Twitter or other social media platforms. As a professional photographer I know that controlling the use of my images by licencing the copyright I hold in them is vital. It’s how I earn my living. But for the general public, they may not be aware that some of these image hosting companies are able to effectively resell the images they upload without paying them a penny. So how can they do this?In this post I am going to aim to show you the good and the bad and explain what may happen to your images that you have uploaded. As usual the devil is in the detail: the terms and conditions you sign up to by making an upload to an image host’s site. Let’s take a look in turn at the terms of some of the most popular image hosting services, but first a quick (and very basic) copyright & licencing primer for those that are not used to how images are commoditised in the photo industry so that this article can be understood a little better

The digital age is transforming society: bringing us greater democracy, transparency and new creative possibilities. When these freedoms are under attack, the Open Rights Group is there to defend them. Founded in 2005 by 1,000 digital activists, ORG has become the UK’s leading voice defending freedom of expression, privacy, innovation, consumer rights and creativity on the net. Getting into the political trenches in the UK and EU, we mobilise our supporters to stop bad laws. Working closely with other campaign groups, we lobby government and talk to the media whenever our rights are threatened. ORG is a non-profit company funded by donors, mostly by people like you. We depend on regular contributions to run and win our campaigns. If you would like to become an ORG supporter, please click here. We have a core staff backed by an Advisory Council and Board of Directors, stocked with technology experts and campaigners, as well as a wider network of campaigning volunteers.

Yeah 1 in 3 and heck, wrong assumptions, are plenty bad enough in themselves! #innerluddite

The product uses a thermal printer, the same kind as that used in fax machines. When the message is no longer needed, the paper can be erased with the flip of a switch — ready to be used up to 260 times.

And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm—in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed, (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.

FastCustomer is a free iPhone and Android app that connects you with the customer-service centers at well over 2,000 corporations, insurance providers, and public utilities. There’s almost no hold time; just click on a company name, wait for FastCustomer to call you back when a rep becomes available, and kiss those minutes of dead phone time good-bye. Co-founder Aaron Dragushan called the first thousand companies himself, spent countless hours on hold, and taught the app to navigate each company’s phone tree. What this means in practice is that FastCustomer can get you to an actual person very quickly, without a single keystroke. A handful of companies have blocked the service—Comcast subscribers, you’re out of luck!—but as of this writing, the app’s alphabetically arranged list is superextensive, and growing. It’s a sight your sore eyes, ears, and fingers are sure to appreciate.

Google’s newish Ngram Viewer turns the millions of books that Google has digitized into a single, supremely powerful concordance—and lets you follow the evolution (and occasional disappearance) of nearly every word in the language.

Classy, just classy.

Many new or mid-level writers have received nasty or rude rejection letters. But when famous author rejection letters come to light, people laugh and say “What were those editors (or literary agents) thinking?” Many big names faced the same kind of adversity (and even hostility) in rejection letters that you may be facing now. Famous author rejection letters teach us a lot!