Breakfast Links: Kindle 2.0, NYC Groping & Doctor Horrible
Ok, it’s been a long while since I’ve talked about the Kindle, mostly because it’s just been plugging along, business as usual. The Kindle stores up to like 140k titles now, which is good, but definitely needs more. Now the big rumor is that the next version is going to be rolling out sometime around October this year! Apparently, same screen size but reduced footprint and most interestingly they “skipped three or four generations” - so this new one should be pretty amazing. We’ll see, but hopefully they’ve done it. And there’s a larger one with an 8.5×11 (like a sheet of paper) coming out as well. The more people who get their hands on these the more titles will come out for it. So, I’m hopeful!
I remember from my first trip to Tokyo as not an 8 year old, seeing signs in the subway that told women that if someone groped them they should say something. I thought that that was screwed up and that they’d never need anything like that in NYC because you’d catch a beatdown if you tried that here. Apparently, I’m wrong. NYC is thinking about joining the club of cities with anti-groping ads all up in their public transport. Gross. At least we have hollabacknyc a place for folks to post their pics of subway pervs.
And to leave you with happy thoughts, just in case you somehow missed my many posts yesterday about Doctor Horrible’s launch of Act I, I’m reminding you again that it’s out and free this week. It was so popular that it crushed their servers, but is back up and in business again. But the word is out and it is good. It’s even the #1 TV show in iTunes now, not #1 sci-fi, just #1. You ought to buy it. Anyhoo, that’s it for this morning. Go watch it again and sing along.
UPDATE: Oh, I forgot, if you’re a twitterer, you may want to follow @drhorrible which gives updates. Pretty low traffic, but you know, keeps you on top of business.
