Linked List: May 6, 2009

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Kindle DX 

9.7-inch screen (the original Kindle’s measures 6 inches) but the same Tic-Tac-button keyboard, available for pre-order for $489.

Update: The DX keyboard is actually smaller, and lacks dedicated number keys.

Stuart Jeffries on the Revival of the Exclamation Mark 

Count me in with Fitzgerald:

Novelists (at least male ones) are apt to be mean-spirited about dog’s cocks. “Cut out all those exclamation marks,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald. “An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.”

(Via Kottke.)

Hypercritical 

John Siracusa on the role criticism plays in design.