Kindle e-book Reader Launches
Amazon recently launched its e-book reader, aptly named Kindle (as in to kindle your imagination). The wireless portable reading device launches with access to over 90,000 books, blogs, newspapers and magazines Check It Out...
Online Digital Library The Universal Digital Library offers full text downloads of works that are in the public domain or that have been released from copyright restrictions. Currently there are 1.5 million titles on offer, so if you have an academic appetite it is well worth checking out. Check It Out
Guide to Greener Electronics
Greenpeace site which ranks the top 18 manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TV's and games consoles. Before your Christmas purchases it might be worth taking a peak to find out who really is naughty and nice. Check It Out...
Bottom of the World Map
In the International Polar Year, NASA has released an interactive map of the bottom of the world. The map contains an 1,000 image photo mosaic of Antarctica captured by the Landsat 7 satellite orbiting 400 miles above the world. You can navigate over the icy land mass and zoom into amazing details. The map will be used by scientists to track changes in the environment including the thinning of ice sheets. Check It Out...
