Almost as stagnant as book technology. Give me a huge break. Show the text. Provide a way to turn pages. The current Kindle is great and does a simple thing well.

I hear it over and over -- I'd run Linux if I could play games.

Of course, Mark Shuttleworth and Unity, Gnome3, and KDE are trying their best to kill it too. It's getting harder and harder to find a good windows manager on Linux.

For a while, Bastardi was showing up on CNBC quite regularly -- this was 3 or 4 years ago. After he became semi-regular he made a big stink about how much snow was going to fall over the ensuing month or two. This was based on "hi-tech" scientific methodogy, according to Bastardi. He talked the announcer, Joe Kernan, into a fairly big bet. Kernan wasn't really interested in betting but Bastardi made quite a stink about it. Anyway, Bastardi ended up being completely wrong -- he was so discredited they stopped inviting him on the show.