This article by Megan McArdle on the escalating war between the Kindle and the iPad
Oh, yes: do the same thing for Little Miss Attila. After all, she brought this issue to my attention.
Moe Lane
PS: Seriously, why Amazon didn’t hand out more Kindles to New Media folks…
*My current readers already got me a new audio rig for phone interviews. Which hopefully they feel that they’re getting their money’s worth on; I’m trying to get at least a couple in every week.
Spell-checking is simultaneously the greatest boon and the greatest burden of modern publishing: it used to be you actually read text before you sent it to the printer. Now you just look for the wavy red lines on the screen, and never mind if you used the wrong (but properly-spelled) word:
SYDNEY — An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with “salt and freshly ground black people.”
Penguin Group Australia’s head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader for the Pasta Bible should have picked up the error, but called it nothing more than a “silly mistake.”
Via the Corner.
Here, let me save you time looking for it:
Moe Lane
Heh. I’ve been referring to Congress as being barons and petty-nobility – very, very, very petty nobility – for some time; but it’s nice that other people have noticed. Eleanor Clift (via Instapundit):
It took just three weeks for upstate New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa to resign his seat in Congress after accusations surfaced that he had sexually harassed members of his staff. The long trail of unwanted and often abusive advances that preceded his resignation—and why his alleged behavior went unreported for so long—highlights how much Capitol Hill is a feudal society, with each member the lord of his or her own territory.
The kicker is, it’s not even a proper feudal society. A proper feudal society would have seen Speaker Pelosi’s office burned down by her own vassals for her willful sparking of a peasant revolt in said vassals’ fiefdoms. Feudal societies were rambunctious affairs; the average French or English baron would have sneered at the milksops that blindly and meekly followed the Democratic party leadership’s charge over a cliff.
And let’s not get started on the Germans.
Moe Lane
PS: regarding the specifics, somebody should tell these people that the droit du seigneur – the sexual ‘rights’ of a feudal lord over his vassals – DIDN’T ACTUALLY EXIST. Ah, the Democratic party: not only do they not learn from history, many of them didn’t actually take it in the first place…
Crossposted to RedState.
The Bridge Of Khazad Dum
I need to sit down and watch this again.
All of it.
From the start.
Not to correct the Independent – oh, who am I kidding? I love to correct the Independent – but the correct term is ‘bribe.’
Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm
Al Gore, the self-styled squeakiest-clean and deepest-green politician in American history, has some explaining to do this weekend. His environmental organisation has taken money to raise awareness about the need for clean water from a controversial chemicals company involved in the aftermath of one of the world’s worst pollution disasters.
Dow Chemical, the US firm which now owns the leaking pesticides factory responsible for thousands of deaths in Bhopal, India, is sponsoring Life Earth events in 150 cities today. The event aims to raise money for clean water programmes. Research by environmental organisations has found dangerous levels of highly toxic chemicals in rivers, lakes and other water supplies close to several other factories owned by Dow and its subsidiaries in countries including the United States, Brazil and South Africa.
Or maybe ‘protection.’ Dow Chemical gives Gore money; Gore purifies Dow Chemical with the light of his countenance and his status as head of that strange little sect that he’s created over the last decade. It’s less money than Dow Chemical would need to spend to be in compliance with environmental demands, so everybody wins.
Well, everybody who isn’t simultaneously: in the environmental movement; and, a rube. Those sorry sad sacks get to stew in silence again while their betters enjoy the good life. Which is not a particularly attractive a lifestyle to me, but then I’m not a religious fanatic.
Moe Lane
PS: Actually, no, Al Gore will have to do no explaining at all. Explanations are for those who do not Speak For The Trees.
Crossposted to RedState.
I like Thad McCotter, and it’s not like Bad Thad is awful. It’s just that Good Thad is sufficiently good that when he’s not in that mode it’s noticeable. Regardless, Good Thad was at the SRLC:
What the whole thing: it’s well worth your time.
It’s… innovative, for a given value of ‘innovative:’ creating a new job in the Ohio state government to address why the Ohio state government has not been able to create jobs, I mean.
Ohio needs a jobs czar to envision ways of putting Ohioans back to work and to coordinate programs scattered across nine state agencies, a new report concludes.
The report, “Help Wanted: a Lead State workforce official,” depicts a system of overlapping and splintered programs and strategies that it says could be strengthened through a unity of purpose. The nonprofit Columbus-based Community Research Partners in Columbus released the report Thursday.
The above word ‘lead’ is meant in terms of ‘head’ or ‘chief’… and not in terms of ‘heavy, toxic weight,’ which is an accurate representation of the general effect of Democratic party policies on Ohio’s unemployment rate since Ted Strickland took office four years ago. 11%, these days: at this rate, they’ll have a czar to address why the job-creation czar hasn’t created more than one job by no later than June. The state’s only hope is that they can somehow accelerate the process to the point where a new czar pops into existence every second… Continue reading Reducing OH unemployment, one jobs czar at a time.
This is practically a koan:
In front of audiences, she has taken medication that made her lose consciousness, and stabbed herself repeatedly in the left hand.
OK, ‘koan’ is the wrong word. This is one of those sentences though where you don’t really want to read the rest of the article in order to get the context. It’s hard to come up with context that deserves to have that sentence associated with it. Even actual reality isn’t quite up to it, really.
Via Hot Air Headlines.
No, he is not available for national office: NJ is currently using him. Go get your own.
More of this, please:
NJEA President Barbara Keshishian visited his office this week to apologize for a recent email sent to thousands of teachers by a union official that included a mock prayer for the governor’s death. According to [NJ Governor Chris] Christie, the conversation went something like this: He accepted her apology immediately but asked if the email sender would be fired for “doing something that monumentally stupid.” When the union chief questioned why the man should be fired, Mr. Christie promptly ended the meeting.
That’s from the WSJ’s interview with Christie, which will be refreshing reading for conservatives who may be just a little tired of situations where political rhetoric exceeds actions. In this particular case, the issue of the apology is just a vehicle for the real message: to wit, the Governor of NJ is not afraid of the teachers’ unions, so if the latter wants to win their current dispute with the former they’re going to have to fight for once. Given that support for freezing teacher pay in NJ is two-to-one in Christie’s favor, the governor is in good shape here.
It never occurred to me – although it should have – that the people who make television shows might get a little upset when those shows are canceled on them, but this seems just a tad much.
On the other hand, that show* was full of obnoxious stereotyping anyway, so go Alvarez Impact hypothesis.
Moe Lane
*I was going to flog it, but when I went to go look it up I found this instead:
Much more worth spending your hard-earned money on, particularly if you have a desk.
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