Inspired by Parker Higgins’s set of Kindle screensavers, I’ve put together one of my own featuring the botanical photographs of Karl Blossfeldt. It has 17 images so far, most of which I scanned from the set of 10 double-sided Blossfeldt prints I won recently on eBay.
Having a set of screensavers that suits your taste definitely makes the Kindle experience a fair bit better. If you like these, let me know; I’ll add more whenever I find more suitable Blossfeldt images. (I stuck to vertically-oriented prints with light backgrounds that could be burned to white, since mottled gray backgrounds tend to look posterized on the Kindle.)
A few months ago, I found (via TT) a wonderful series of short videos, “Mr. Deity“. There are eight episodes so far, and most of them are brilliant… especially episodes 5 and 7, featuring Lucifer.
But when many anecdotes complement each other, and editors pull that out, you get something cool that no current review database can match. - January 28th, 2012 at 8:46 PM
As I imagine it, wiki-like curation would be an important element. Amazon reviews are useful not just for ave. stars, but anecdotes. - January 28th, 2012 at 8:42 PM
RT@evan Someday knowing the ins and outs of copyright will be like knowing the intricate rules of internal passports in Communist East ... - January 28th, 2012 at 8:10 PM
Federation makes a lot of sense... pre-existing communities centered on X (e.g., Android devices) just set up an instance and federate in. - January 28th, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Cool! My development skills are minimal, but I'm trying to pick up Django by building a rudimentary review site. - January 28th, 2012 at 8:04 PM
Why we need a free culture, community-run review site, independent of any merchant: http://ur1.ca/7x7cn Anybody want to start one with me? - January 28th, 2012 at 12:39 PM
And finally, I won an eBay auction on a trio of 1929 
