Monday afternoon amusing links
Today I upgraded Wordpress. No idea if this makes the site look any different, but I like some of the new features.
Later today, after I finish a few other things, I hope to have a review posted. But for now, mostly to test my twitter feed, have some linkage.
- Dear Author reports on Kindle 2.0. It has a text to speech engine now. Which still makes it useless for an actual, y’know, blind consumer. But, hey, whatev. It’s not like ebook companies actually want my money or anything.
- Dear Author also had a post about social DRM which was fascinating. Note that the two things these links have in common is the fact that I am in the comments, wanking on my soapbox.
- Not that I care overly much about book covers (the being totally blind thing sort of prevents this), but over in the fantasy blogosphere there’s been some wank about one. Me, I kind of want to read the book now. Because I like both epic fantasy and paranormal romance, and I love well-written strong female characters, and all of those tastes taste great together.
- And also via Andrew Wheeler, a hillarious review of a book I am never likely to read. And, hey, it’s from a Kansas City blog, and that’s… kind of local. I will let the author of the book in question speak for himself.
“Killinger turned to face her. There was a definite interruption in the pattern of his white shorts.” (page 95)
and
“Killinger hung up quickly to cut off complaints and because Marja-Liisa had moved his hand to her golden grove and had begun quivering against his fingers and her sighs had become deep.”
I’d have posted the bit about prunes, but, y’know, some things you just have to discover on your own.