Kindle

Today I went to Amazon.com to do a little holiday shopping and the home page was a note about a new gadget called Kindle.

 

This thing looks so cool!

 

You can purchase books right from the device without WiFi, read blogs, and look up words you don’t know. The display is about as paper-like as you can get without actual paper and can be easily read in sunlight, just like a regular book. What’s really nice is that there are no subscriptions or fees for network access – it comes with the device!

 

If I don’t get one for Christmas (hint, hint), I think I’ll get one for myself…

 

 

Seinfeld and Philosophy

In March 2006, I finished reading Seinfeld and Philosophy. This book is terrible. Don’t read it. There are a few interesting points and a few interesting insights, but none of the essays in this book add up to anything interesting. A few essays (most notably, the one on “The Costanza Maneuver”) get so caught up in semantics that any actual meaning gets lost along the way. It seems, however, that most of the reviewers on Amazon.com would disagree. These reviewers don’t know what they’re talking about.