What We’re Clicking on Today
The Fox is Black has a contest to design a proper cover for The Odyssey. These are my favorites:
Also at that site I found a post about Kehinde Wiley.
Oh, so that’s his name. I saw one of his paintings at the MIA and stared at it stupidly for 20 minutes. Stalk the work of Kehinde Wiley. Stalk it good.
Eric Frost is not pleased with the new Kindle, which features advertisements. I’d pay the extra $20 to avoid stupid ads at the bottom of what I read. But then again, I’m an iPad evangelist. Currently, I’m using mine to read Tina Fey’s book.
Whoever designed that cover should probably be fired. The book itself is great so far though. My next eBook will be David Foster Wallace’s post-humous release, The Pale King. The story of the editor putting this book together is interesting enough to merit its own book. It comes out on the 15th, in honor of taxes.
What are you reading? Give us some suggestions for what to pay Steve Jobs for next.
This study used Wordle to show the most commonly used ads in toy commercials targeted at girls vs. boys.
Oh, so that’s why a little boy my sister was babysitting once chased her around with a knife. Just kidding, I don’t think that was advertising’s fault.
Today’s last bit: a judge told the Winklevoss twins to can it.
Hope you enjoyed our nets roundup.