Preamble: I’ve lived in Madison for about 7 months now, and one thing I’d been disappointed in was how little I’d sampled of the different restaurants around the city. If someone came in to visit Madison and wanted to get a recommendation on a good restaurant, I really wouldn’t have much to say outside of [...]

Last year I wrote a defense of the Kindle, Amazon’s electronic book and document reader that I thought was being unfairly maligned in the time shortly after it was announced. I consider the Kindle to be a strong product within certain markets: namely business and academia, where the tactile pleasure of holding a paper book [...]

I dig media-centric social networking. No, not MySpace/Facebook/etc, but rather services that center around sharing your tastes in entertainment and finding new things to enjoy.
For example, for video games, I have XBox Live, Steam, and XFire (and wish I could get a WePlayThis invite). For music I have Zune Social. For manga, I have MangaUpdates. [...]