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girlie_jones notes, this is depressing news for science fiction writers:

Dolphin starts to use Apple iPad.

I only wish I could have made this up.

Dear President Obama, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and indeed the entire U.S. Senate:

Not that you read this blog or anything, but can you check and make sure that the next Supreme Court justice knows the difference between email and a pager and what a server is? Thanks muchly.

- me

(To clarify, no, I don't think that Supreme Court justices should be technogeeks. But given that I'm fairly sure the Supreme Court is going to have to continue to hear cases based on technology of various forms, it would be nice to have at least one person there who has a sense of what people actually do with fun little electronic things.)

If you haven't heard, Amazon and Macmillan have gone to war, with the unfortunate result, for readers and writers caught in the middle, that you can't buy Macmillan's books on Amazon.com, and writers can't sell Macmillan's books on Amazon.com. Macmillan is the large parent company that owns the huge presses of St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt and Co., Tor (science fiction), Forge (mostly mystery but other stuff as well), my beloved Scientific American and several other publishers. They are Big Guys. Amazon.com is the world's largest online bookseller, selling multiple other items as well.

( My mixed reader/writer response )

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The meandering words of Mari Ness

Even dolphins want one:

Let's please, please change this with the next Supreme Court Justice

Amazon, Macmillan, e-readers

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