Spontaneous ∂erivation

I think I’ll keep my subscription to Wired Science, as it delivers interesting articles every week day (although apparently not so much on weekends).

Here are images of people’s brains shutting down when they receive “eXpert financial advice.”

I hadn’t noticed it before, but the Kindle renders a “heading” in a newspaper/blog for each article.

Thus you can see the humorous juxtaposition of the article “River Crests, and Fargo Averts Danger for Now” against… well…

Pushing this up the queue of Kindle Shots because, um, wow:

Mind you, nothing has been confirmed. But I think this is why I still subscribe to the NYT Latest News Blog on my Kindle: so I can be boondoggled earlier.

While the individual blogs at seed media’s ScienceBlogs can be hit or miss (even on the Kindle), the ScienceBlogs: Select on the Kindle appears to be always frequently updated and amusing, and thus the best bang for your buck.

This is better dithered on the Kindle, but even here you can see one of Saturn’s tiny (relative to its size, anyways…) moons.

Things I want very much: Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog as a Kindle blog. Although considering that Discover Magazine’s holder is currently suing Amazon for creating a digital book reader that can download reading materials from the net, that’s probably not going to happen.

And this is why Science Wins.

Also, I’m experimenting with Wired Science as a convenient Kindle blog subscription. I miss getting my science hits, although these days I like them to be biteable (and yet not condescending).

Dear New York Times,

Yes, we notice when your Latest News Blog has poorer image resolution than the full newspaper edition.

Let’s hope that your photo editors don’t do any more JPG bastardization than necessary in the future.

Love,
S∂

Yes, another screenshot from the New York Times Kindle newspaper. I thought this was a particularly nice picture.

I was surprised to find this in my daily New York Times Kindle subscription. Truly a far-reaching show.

Although the actual article was trifle, in my opinion. I racked the Television Without Pity review onto my Instapaper account instead (and then used Instapaper’s new feature to email the articles directly to my Kindle).

“Science Not Fiction” also has an interesting finale interview with Kevin Grazier, BSG’s science advisor.

For those who want to share their reactions to the finale, Tor.com has an entire thread devoted to it, although it’s pretty hard to navigate via the Kindle. This is what real computers are for.

Link to wilw’s original blog entry

Many blogs I simply read through Google Reader’s mobile interface through the Kindle’s basic web browser¹.

I find that Wil Wheaton is a good place to start, especially if you’re a geek.

1. Which may be, from the browser signature, a scaled-down mobile Gecko engine, the same renderer that drives Mozilla-family browsers, including Firefox. [↩]