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Category Archives: Misc

All the toys!

I’ve acquired a bunch of new gadgets of late, I’m very excited about them all so I decided to promote them here.
Reading
A Sony PRS 600 E-Book reader was gifted to me this Christmas, and what a fantastic piece of kit it is.

I’ve been enjoying several public domain texts from Feedbooks as well as a bunch […]

Ghostly

When I read about Nine Inch Nails’ latest project, Ghost, I was inspired to hear of a well known artist sticking it to the man and releasing their content without a label and distribution chain, much as JoCo does (although I’d imagine Trent Reznor has much more bankroll behind him than Jonathan Coulton).
As the first […]

Marvel Digital Comics

The shame is the fact that I can only access these comics through a Flash application which I had absolutely zero success in running on my x86 Linux machine (even with Adobes flash plugin) and that ran much too slowly to be usable on my iBook (less than instantaneous page transitions).

…It’s a shame, I hope Marvel (and DC) embrace a more open service model so that I can use the likes of Comix and FFView to read their comics regardless of whether I am actively connected to the internet (long journeys on public transport perhaps).