Category Archives: offbeat
Songs as books? An illustrated version of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”
Yesterday I wrote up a whole bunch of notes for what will most likely be another long post about some hypothetical near-future publishing idea. That’s not important (yet). What’s important is that in those notes I used Lady Gaga as … Continue reading
Posted in ideas, illustrations, offbeat, online, publishing
Tagged ebooks, experiments, gaga, illustrated, illustrations, novelty, pop music, retro, songs, telephone, vintage
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Does a Kindle make a good prison bribe? No, it does not.
The Los Angeles Times reported today that when a prison official returned from holiday vacation last month, she found a new Kindle on her desk. It had been given to her by Fabian Nuñez, former Assembly Speaker for California and … Continue reading
Is a Kindle bullet proof? There’s one quick way to find out.
“Can a book save your life?” That’s what Tom Shillue of the literary journal Electric Literature asks in the clip above, and you can tell he should be taken very seriously because he does that TV news journalist walk toward … Continue reading
Posted in authors, books, funny, hardware, Kindle 2, offbeat, online
Tagged bullets, firing ranges, franzen, funny, guns, journals, Kindle 2, literature, moody, silly, videos, will it blend
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Amazon pulls Kindle game over offensive language
The new Kindle game Every Word really means every word, even slangish, potentially offensive terms. At his blog laughing-stalk, Erik Deckers wrote that last night he was trying to finish an Every Word game and got stuck on one final, … Continue reading
Posted in active content, funny, offbeat
Tagged Amazon, bugs, dictionaries, every word, games, kindle, language, offensive, oops, race, racial terms, racism, updates, user testing, word games
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4 more screens for your Kindle
Medusa! Some old books! A really ugly dog! And a cartoon Day of the Dead box! Now your Kindle can look weirder than ever when it’s not in use. (Don’t worry, it looks awesome when you’re using it.)
Posted in books, creepy, funny, offbeat
Tagged antique books, books, calaca, cartoons, chinese crested, day of the dead, dia de los muertos, dod, free screensaver, kindle, kindle screen, medusa, old books, pierre et gilles, skeletons, ugly dog
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Free Kindle Screensaver: Bela Lugosi as Jesus
Update:This image and others are now collected on the Free Screens page of the site.
Posted in creepy, free, Kindle, offbeat, people, photos, screensavers
Tagged bela lugosi, free, goth, historical, horror, jesus, kindle, photos, screen, screensaver, unusual
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Free Kindle Screensaver: Doug Henning is magic
Because after all, doesn’t the Kindle’s Whispernet feel like magic? Update:This image and others are now collected on the Free Screens page of the site.