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The plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother the day before she died sensationally walked off talk show
Larry King Live--out of "respect" for the rapper's family.
This is what I call a brilliant rural sport.
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There's a lot to digest in Newsweek's seven-page all-out feature. Jeff Bezos sum it up: "This isn't a device, it's a service." Kindle starts shipping tomorrow for $399 and is "a perpetually connected Internet device" running off of EV-DO—it calls the service "Whispernet." It's totally computer independent: You browse for books (88,000 at launch) and buy them in a "one-touch process," it comes with a personal Kindle email address and it can browse the regular internet—keyboard sounds useful now doesn't it?
NYT bestsellers and hardback new releases will go for $9.99, with classics going as low as $1.99. Through the service, which is an extension of the Amazon store, you also can subscribe to newspapers (NYT, WSJ, Washington Post) and magazines, which are automatically sent to Kindle when they drop on the wire.
Talking about the hardware itself, it'll hold 200 books onboard, though you can supplement with unspecified memory cards. It'll get up to 30 hours of reading per charge and weighs 10.3 ounces. So, why does such a potentially disruptive device look so very plain? They wanted it to look like "an austere vessel of culture." The moniker Kindle is from the same line of thinking, " the crackling ignition of knowledge." But, thankfully, it doesn't get warm itself.
Some obvious questions are left though, mostly about the "always-on" connection—is the EV-DO-based Whispernet service included in the $399? If not, what's the pricing on that? And what are its limits, since you can go out onto the real web? Odds are, Bezos himself will reveal the answers tomorrow.
The goals here are pretty lofty: "Amazon believes it has created the iPod of reading." We really, really dig Jeff's vision, "that you should be able to get any book—not just any book in print, but any book that's ever been in print—on this device in less than a minute," so we hope about as much as he does that this little beige slab lives up to all the wonderful that they're promising. [Newsweek]
Normally, I would have written a huge analysis piece last night, but, I only managed to get numbers posted. (...)
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Is Jamie Pressly's movie dead or alive?
A Web-based video distributor asks the FCC to set up rules for broadband network traffic management.
Ordinarily hot drunk blondes can do no wrong in my book. Normal dumb drunk blondes come home and make out girls, take their tops off, share a meal out of a cup... This girl ate maggots.
Apple has released updates for its Final Cut Studio 2 applications to make them compatible with Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard," and has made other changes, too.
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges ( Fred Claus , Crash , 2 Fast 2 Furious ) and stuntwoman Zoe Bell ( Death Proof ) have joined the cast of Lionsgate's upcoming untitled action-thriller from Crank writers/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Business
Reuters
documents the Japanese PS3
frenzy, saying that the console sold nearly all of its stock -- 88,400 units -- in its first two days. Just over 60 percent moved were the 60GB version, but we expect gamers were just buying whatever was available.
But what games do the Japanese players want?
Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight and
Ridge Racer 7 are the hottest titles, selling about 30,000 each. While other launch titles are picking up the slack, it sounds like Japanese gamers are spending most of their money on the console and not on games.
The PS3 already supports
video downloads in Japan, so that audience may see it as a rounded entertainment system -- or a Blu-ray player. We're interested in how the number of games sold per-console averages out in different parts of the world.
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Target will be carrying an exclusive version of The Clone Wars movie DVD that comes bundled with the Shipyards of Doom graphic novella.
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Video, Peripherals
As if the
Wii and
PlayStation 3 weren't enough for one weekend, Microsoft sent us their upcoming Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive to tinker around with. After the ritual unpacking, we hooked it up -- using a simple USB cable to the 360 and (yet another) power adapter -- installed the software patch they provided with the unit, and got right into a movie. Initial impressions of the HD-DVD drive is that it delivers an incredible image for the high-def inclined; however, it's yet another box to add to your growing arsenal of electronics.
For gamers with high-def displays and Xbox 360s, the $200 HD-DVD player provides a (relatively) affordable path to high-def discs, but with Microsoft's recent
announcement of downloadable high-def rentals, we imagine plenty of consumers will be willing to wait this format war out. More pics of the package and a video after the break.
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