At a guess, if you visit this site you like things. Well designed and well made things, especially for your home office/computer desk/paper file repository (you have to have someplace to put your pause.com-approved gadgets). @workdesign, just fifteen minutes west of Chicago’s Loop in Forest Park provides everything you need, desks and shelves from BluDot, [...]

I’m sure you’re wondering why I just didn’t get an iPhone, which I researched, thought about, and sweated over for the better portion of a year. Short answer: I’m with Verizon on multiple phone lines. So, there’s that. I was an early adopter of PDAs, and mine traveled the world with me. Though fairly primitive [...]

Despite the truth of the title, I’m not going to spend any time bashing this product, for two, make that three, reasons. First, the myPressi company was kind enough to send a test version where the competing company (Handpresso) was not. Second, when I had problems with the unit, the PR firm picked up the [...]

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. via IMDB

The DX does everything as promised. It downloads books. It stores books. It displays books. And the large (actually, around the size of a netbook) screen displays text very nicely. Properly formatted black and white images look rich and have excellent contrast. I’m just not sure why anyone would want one.