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Good news for old-media sufferers! On Wednesday, Fujitsu announced the world's first color e-reader. It renders text as cleanly as a printed page, displays 260,000 colors, weighs three-quarters of a pound and is connected to the Net via WiFi. It costs $1,000, a price tag that's probably three times too high, which is typical for products aimed at early adopters...
Well, not really. But Somerville recently purchased 50 BigBelly cans of the Wall-E sort. You know, the kind that squishes incoming trash in cute little cubes, emits aww-inducing mechanical noises, and...well, ok, they're not that adorable. They just text message the waste management people when they're full of crap...
...elections by describing their political interests in an online profile, uploading a photo, and linking to their profiles on other social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Then, rather than the party selecting which candidates to field in a traditional closed-door process, the public decides through text message voting. "The Internet has cut out the middle man in many areas of life, and we're doing the same with politics," Judge told a hundred supporters in Westminster on Monday. "It used to be 'one man, one vote,' but now it's 'one mobile, one vote...
Rolcats takes photos from a Russian Lolcats website called Kotomatrix.ru and claims to translate the Cyrillic captions into English. However, the translations don't match the actual Russian text. A joke about a cat inspecting for contraband items, for instance, actually says something about a making sure that the purchased items match the receipt. And those two fighting kittens? The Russian joke does not insult one of its former republics. English version: "You punch like a Georgian...
...amazed at the paucity of coverage on the bushfires in Victoria. This was Australia's greatest peacetime disaster - an experience of absolute horror on a massive scale - and you gave it one page, of which only half was text. Coverage of Australia in the U.S. media is negligible and TIME is no exception. As a subscriber for over half a century, I find this very disappointing. Michael Wilson, Pymble, Australia