Write or Die

Pop on over to Dr. Wicked for the neatest $10 app you’ll download this Holiday Season.

Write or Die was originally an online application Dr. Wicked hosted for free. Set a word count and a time limit, and Write or die opens a simple editor. Type away. Meet your goals and nothing happens. Fail, and you set the punishment: A gentle reminder, harsh sound, or worse, your precious few words are slowly erased before your eyes.

Now, Write or Die is available as a download for Adobe Air, and includes several neat features: Customizable, Export your work, online competition. Check it out:

This Could Be the One: Barnes and Noble’s Nook

I’ve written before that I really didn’t see the point to e-readers. They just seemed clunky and expensive. Why Spend $250 bucks on a book reader when books themselves are pretty cheap and a heck of a lot more user friendly?

Well, I’m Beginning to change my mind. Barnes and Noble’s Nook might just be the tipping point.

Why?

• Color Touchscreen-The Nook Does away with cheap chiclet keys of the kindle and replaces them with a slick color touchscreen ala Ipod.  This makes it look less like an meter reading device and more like, well a consumer product
• WiFi- no Data plans, works at home or-here’s the kicker- in the store. See, I knew something was up when B&N starting advertising their Free wi-fi. Around here they always charged for access. Now with your Nook, you can browse the store, and instead of running home to purchase on Amazon, you can buy your e-book right there
• Memory slot-SSD memory slot means you can go from 1,500 books to who knows how many. An Entire Library in the palm of your hand. Too bad the books still cost $10 apiece. Oh, Wait…
• Free E-books. B&N is offering over 500,000 free books. Now, I’m sure most are public domain clasics, but really, isn’t a half million free books worth it. This means you can immediately fill your Nook on Christmas morning. How Cool Is that?
• Book Lending- No One really seems to know how this works, but you can “Lend” your friends a copy of books you own. Maybe it’s like the Zune, where they can keep it for so many days or openings? Who Knows. But it’s something neither Sony nor Amazon thought of.

Nook Demo

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Lovecraft Inspired Mug # 3: Azathoth

Don’t know where the inspiration for this one came from, but I like it the Best:

You Know, I’m Kind of Glad I Missed the 60s

Or, How Some Things Can Never Be Unlearned:

Order Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner