SE: Tristan’s Move
DE: I don’t even know what half of this stuff is. Meebo? That sounds like a friend of Nemo. I still use AIM (when I IM). What does that say about me?
DE: Not so, Ms. Glick. Anyone who has been to a Sheetz (there are about 1324092 of them in Pennsylvania), has been ordering custom-made sandwiches, hot dogs, burgers, salads, nachos, etc. on a touch screen for years. The only difference between Sheetz and this place in Germany would be that an actual human hands the finished product to you as opposed to a “system of metal tracks.” And by that I assume she means some sort of car moving along a network of metal tracks, not just tracks.
I know, writing about how an American firm has broken ground in anything is so passe (with the exception of Apple, of course). But let’s never forget, America kicks ass.
DE: Did you know that the words placenta and pancake have the same etymological roots? Chew on that the next time you consider hotcakes as a dining option.
SE: Booklending with Paperspine
DE: There is virtually no one who reads this blog that thinks mainstream media has this whole 21st century thing figured out, but the place where the most creativity will be required is with print based content. Speaking for myself, it’s torture to read more than a few pages worth of stuff online and I’m skeptical about the handheld electronic readers that are now on the market. Paperspine might be on to something here, but books aren’t movies or music and it will be interesting to see if online distribution of massive text-based works manages to get picked up by the masses.