Category: General Tech

What I’m Reading This Month

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Since buying my Kindle, I have to admit that I’ve done a lot more reading. Here’s what’s been on my e-ink display this month:

  • The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe looks at the build-up to NASA’s Mercury project, through the eyes of the original seven astronauts. It’s an excellent, excellent read for any nerd.
  • Apollo by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox chronicles the Apollo space program. While the book dives fairly deep in to the politics inside and outside of NASA in the 1960s, it’s not at all boring. The names that history has forgotten live on in this book.
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl retells the author’s time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps during World War II. It discusses the psychiatric toll that living without a reason to live takes on someone. I’ve been reading the paperback off and on for months, and have yet to finish it. It is intense.

Editor’s Note: As always, links from 512 Pixels to Amazon are done as affiliate links. Kindle purchases aren’t eligible for Amazon’s affiliate program, so I’ve linked to the paperback versions above.

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The Tragic N9

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Vlad Savov:

The N9 is flawed and doomed, but you have to understand, I don’t care. The universal experience of using this phone is one of delight and desire. Yes, it can get bamboozled and freeze up, and no, you won’t be finding an avalanche of awesome new apps for it, but those downsides fade in comparison to the abundance of positives.

It’s a shame the N9 is dead in the water. It really is.

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An Electric DeLorean in the Works

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Bill Chappell at NPR:

There’s a new DeLorean DMC–12 coming out — or rather, there’s a new version of the same stainless steel wedge of a sportscar that became an icon (and perhaps the lone representative) of ’80s cool. But it won’t run on gas — it’ll be electric.

The prototype has a range of 70–100 miles, but the company plans on re-working the iconic car’s structure to get weight down, according to David Arnouts at Autoweek:

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BREAKING: Paul Thurrott Still Huge Anti-Apple Pundit

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Here’s the Might One, on his Supersite for Windows, [discussing the iPhone 4S](http://www.winsupersite.com/article/ s-wininfo/apple-sells-4-million-iphone-4s-phones-launch-140916):

There’s a long-running joke that Apple’s fans would buy anything the company sold, no matter the quality. But this past weekend, the joke became reality when the Cupertino consumer electronics giant sold 4 million units of a smart phone, the iPhone 4S, which even its most charitable supporters have described as an evolutionary update over its predecessor.

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