Something New – Photo Gifts
Savannah (Georgia) Photographer Dale Reagan has just released a number of photo gift products based on his travel photography: note cards, USPS stamps, and more.
Coming in December 2008 – pre-order now
Newest work from J.K Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard Standard edition – features all five fairy tales from the original edition, a new introduction by J.K. Rowling, illustrations reproduced from the original handcrafted book, and commentary on each of the tales by Professor Albus Dumbledore. [note - this is a follow-up work to the Harry Potter series.]
The Tales of Beedle the Bard Collectors edition - includes a reproduction of J.K. Rowling’s handwritten introduction, as well as 10 additional illustrations not found in the Standard Edition. Opening the cover of the case reveals a velvet bag embroidered with J.K. Rowling’s signature, in which sits the piece de resistance : your very own copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard , complete with metal skull, corners, and clasp; replica gemstones; and emerald ribbon.
Something New – Gizmos: Amazon’s Kindle
Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.
Kindle customers, no matter where they are in the U.S., can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store and download new content all without a PC or a WiFi hot spot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so there are no monthly wireless bills and no service commitments for customers. The Kindle Store contains over 90,000 books that can be purchased and delivered wirelessly to Kindle, each in less than a minute. Customers can choose from hundreds of top newspapers, magazines and blogs and have their subscriptions auto-delivered wirelessly. All New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
At 10.3 ounces, Kindle is lighter and thinner than a paperback book, carries two hundred books, and includes built-in access to The New Oxford American Dictionary and wireless access to the Earth’s biggest encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org.
- Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
- More than 90,000 books available, including 100 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.
- New York Times® Best Sellers and all New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
- Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
- Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
- Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
- More than 250 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly throughout the day.
- Holds over 200 titles.
- Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day. Turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in 2 hours.
- Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot.
Something New – Artist/Composer: Barak Moffitt
I met Barak Moffitt several years ago in an I.T. context. It seems that Barak is a fellow with multiple talents and drives and that he has had reasonable success in multiple arenas. Our schedules finally aligned such that I met with Barak at his studio during a trip to Los Angeles in 2007 – his web site provides a fair amount of information about his recording studio – worth some surf time.
The really interesting part of the visit was getting to hear a number of tracks from this young (relatively speaking, from a guy working on his second half-century) composer. Of course rock was part of the mix but then examples of his work wandered into a number of other musical contexts including pieces that absolutely surprised me due to their classical structure and complexity (the music of Brahms came to mind.) During this visit I learned that one of Barak’s tunes wound up in a recent movie (Live Free or Die Hard, with Bruce Willis.) You can locate more information about Barak at web site for the band Infiinite Monopoly.
