By Kit | January 21, 2010
The last two days, Amazon has made a couple of announcements regarding the Kindle. The first is that they have raised the royalty that will be received by publishers to 70% and the second is that they will be making an SDK available. The spin on the street is that they are doing [...]
By Kit | October 22, 2009
Note: I am sure that I am going to stir up a shit storm with this, but it is more of an observation and a bit of a question than a complaint.
Weightwatchers.com has a feature in their meal tracker that allows customers to track important metrics each day – things like taking a vitamin, drinking [...]
Food writer Michael Ruhlman has a post on his blog challenging his readers to create a BLT from scratch, photograph it and submit it. Creating a BLT from scratch in his mind means curing the pancetta, baking the bread, growing the lettuce and tomatoes and making the mayo from scratch. Despite the fact that I [...]
Posted in Books, Cooking |
By Kit | October 28, 2008
I find the changes taking place in the agriculture business to be really promising. I, too, am a vegetarian and couldn’t fathom eating goat, but I think diversification of the American pallet and a focus on producing really high quality small scale products is a good thing.
By Kit | September 15, 2008
Further to my post on a posited Amazon Kindle foray into text books, the New York Times has an article on electronic versions of text books and some of the dilemmas that current models present. I mentioned in my post that the individual consumer doesn’t get to select which book is used. The Times [...]
By Kit | September 8, 2008
Merlin Mann weblebrity of a variety of sorts, has outright stated something on his Tumblelog Kung Fu Grippe that it seems he has been bumping up against for some time and captures a feeling that I have had for a while now as well.
With this diet metaphor in mind, I want to, if you like, [...]
Something strange happened today, and it seemed noteworthy so I relate it here. I have begun bringing my lunch to work (save money, eat better, blah bitty blah blah) and my vessel of choice is Mr. Bento.
Mr. Bento is a tremendous modern (and Japanese!) replacement for the lunchbox: a bullet shaped container with four sub-containers [...]
Posted in Gadgets, The Web |
For some reason, I have noticed the term “reverse osmosis” or the even worse “reverse osmosis filter” being thrown about quite a bit lately. This bothers me immensely. Osmosis is the movement of a liquid across a membrane from an area of low concentration to high contration. Effectively, you are diluting the concentration of a [...]
Apple’s new MobileMe service has come under a lot of fire since it’s launch and has encountered a number of severe difficulties involving uptime, faux push functionality, and lost customer emails. The whole thing has seemed quite un-apple like. I by no means have the intention of piling on, but I am going to [...]
Posted in Apple, The Web |
Rumor has it that Amazon may be releasing their Kindle eBook reader in a modified format for the academic market. Having been employed by a number of text book publishers, my initial reaction was a gasp and shudder. Upon further reflection, this may just be the innovation that the text book market needs. [...]
