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    B&N Has Kindle Envy

    Amazon's Very Big, Very Small Kindle Expansion

    Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller

    Times Front Page Basically Just Digg Now

    Paula Froelich Involved in Secret Online Communist Code-Transmitting Cabal?

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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    10/07/09

    In reply to Amazon's Very Big, Very Small Kindle Expansion
    Would someone please explain why I need a Kindle or other book reader when my mini notebook (or the one I plan on buying soon)will eventually have this app?
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    Image of Luddite Luddite
    10/07/09

    @SarahHeartburn: Because the Kindle has a battery life of a few days whereas your netbook and the upcoming Apple Tablet might last for a few hours. Because reading text on the e-ink screen is less taxing on your eyes than reading it on LCD screen. Because the kindle won't heat up too much when used for a long time.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    10/07/09

    @SarahHeartburn: I was skeptical for this reason until my "friend" convinced me to try hers. Now I am obsessed with getting a Kindle, for the reasons Luddite lists, and more. The user experience is very book-like, which puts my brain in a reading zone, as opposed to a "watching" zone, if that makes any sense.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/07/09

    @Luddite: And because it is lighter and easier to hold. Try reading your netbook on the rush hour subway.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    10/07/09

    @SarahHeartburn: I also tried the Kindle app on my iPhone and nearly went crazy trying to use it. OK for short bursts, but not for reading an entire book.
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    Image of CaptainMaharet CaptainMaharet
    10/07/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Or.... maybe.... try reading a book! A book book!
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/07/09

    @CaptainMaharet: Of course. But a Kindle is areal handy substitute for schlepping an 800-page hardcover. And with a Kindle, if I finish one book while I'm out and about, there are plenty more immediately available.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    06/15/09

    In reply to Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller
    Such readers also bought "He's Not That Into You: The Complete Correspondence Between Barry and Diane".
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    Image of kjack kjack
    06/15/09

    In reply to Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller
    Huh. I would've guessed "The Man Inside Me" by Tobias Funke.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    06/15/09

    @kjack: Who better to comment on hostile gay takeovers than the world's premier analrapist?
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/15/09

    @kjack: There really cannot be enough Arrested Development jokes on Gawker. Kudos.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    06/15/09

    In reply to Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller
    Barry Diller's married? What's his husband's name.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    06/15/09

    In reply to Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller
    Obscene Nursery Rhyme Parodies by iplaudius


    1. On the Marriage of of Barry Diller


    A Diller, a dollar, a socialite trawler,

    What made you change so soon?

    You used to come for ten-inch cocks,

    But now you go for poon.


    Horrible, I know.


    Also: Google "Diller." You get Barry Diller indented under Phyllis Diller. If that ain’t gay ...

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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/15/09

    In reply to Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller
    Shouldn't that be called Between 2 Men?
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    06/15/09

    In reply to Amazon.com Outs Barry Diller
    I remember when he married Diane von Furstenburg Michael Musto wrote in the Voice that the pictures of the reception looked like a night at the Mineshaft. LOL.
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    06/15/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: When Diller married, not confuse anyone...
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    Image of DevilsAvocado DevilsAvocado
    05/08/09

    In reply to Times Front Page Basically Just Digg Now
    And here was me thinking Rupert Murdoch bought out the Wall Street Journal. Man moves fast. He's like a Ninja.
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    Image of TedEx TedEx
    05/08/09

    In reply to Times Front Page Basically Just Digg Now
    sad.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    04/23/09

    In reply to Paula Froelich Involved in Secret Online Communist Code-Transmitting Cabal?
    Uh, I think that "average hourly wage" includes all kinds of stuff like retirement, company percentage of health insurance, etc. You know, stuff that other industrialized nations just pay for through taxes.
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    Image of SultanaEleusis SultanaEleusis
    04/23/09

    In reply to Paula Froelich Involved in Secret Online Communist Code-Transmitting Cabal?
    So are you suggesting that laid off GM workers should quick buy a copy of this book and start exercising until they can do what the cover model is doing? Exactly how will that help them get a new job? Do you sense a boom in Yoga Parlors? Is it a trend? Will we be reading about it in the New York Times? So many questions. So few answers!
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    04/23/09

    @SultanaEleusis: Is a yoga parlor like a massage parlor? Is there a "Zen Ending"?
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    04/08/09

    In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
    Celebritydom is exactly like the folks who sit on a hitched trapeze in a glass booth above a pool at the fair and taunt passers on the midway into throwing balls at a bullseye which will dump 'em. We all do it, because we want to feel above 'em, or at least drier, which may be the same. We spend our money to do it, which suits the one on the trapeze just fine. It's amazing Rachel has survived this long without a chorus of balls thrown at her.


    Only Michelle Obama is immune.

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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    04/08/09

    In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
    Thankfully when I'm drunk clicking it's on $1.00 bids on Ebay for very silly stuff. Or, flirting with impossible-to-get men. Harmless, so far.


    I like Rachel. Anyone who has a daily show is overexposed by definition. She's relatively new and very unlike the other talking heads, thus all the interest.


    She did have a funny segment on how a right-wing web site said if you play some of Obama's statements backwards they say: Serve Satan. That made my day.

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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    04/08/09

    In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
    See, when I get drunk I end up ordering Ozu DVDs--and this is why I will probably never be a famous lesbian political commentator.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    04/08/09

    In reply to Rachel Maddow Bought a TV
    Does this mean Rachel will have less time for reading graphic novels? Say it aint so Rach ..
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