[the naked scientist]

Driving back home from a family gathering in the sticks we could only pick up local radio stations...but The Naked Scientist came on. What an excellent show. We heard about how glue works and breakthroughs in stem cell research. Interestingly there was a segment on technology and Amazon's Kindle and Sony's e-book reader came up but instead of dismissing them because "one cannot read them in the bath"...it was the $400 price tag and the idea that users would have to pay extra to read content that appears free on the internet (blogs and newspapers). [see the techcrunch interview with Bezos about kindle]