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I kid you not.

Given sugarfilled's recent rejections from iStockphoto ("too much post" on a photo straight out of the camera), the fact that someone stole 80% of their iStockphoto portfolio off of someone else's Flickr account--photoshopping the watermark off of a 300kb image already compressed by open source server side scripting code on Flickr's servers--REALLY PISSES ME OFF.

To the point I think I'm going to use up the rest of my iStock credits and find a new stock image supplier.

This is the other far side from this thing and pisses me off far, far more.

Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) [Scobleizer]. Good lord. Yes, you are a geek. But the worst possible kind. There is a fine line between "This suxs" and "Fire! Burn! Loot!"

And as for one's reasons for wanting ebooks go, those are horrible.

The book is going to be very hard to beat. Yes, the "Web" has killed text--in the way of newspapers, fliers, instruction manuals, dictionaries and encyclopedias--but in terms of the aesthetic a well-designed book achieves in terms of

• Is typically a complete work
• Requires no other device to consume
• Utterly portable
• A consummate consumable: Can be both held on to indefinitely or thrown right in the trash

...it is going to be a long time before there is any technology that can beat it. I mean, come ON: the image above is from Amazon's own promotional shots! That's like advertising Arial by putting it right next to Helvetica.

If anything, the return of The Fray as a paper publication is the best content-tech news of the week.

All via I Started To Write About How Fickle We Are, But Then I Lost Interest

* Although not only do I like me some euro trash pop, but I like me some trashy swedish-american pop as well...


...don't forget I'm playing at the Gypsy Tea Room (Tea Room side) tonight at 9...opening for The Whigs...