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Hi, I'm Lee.
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King Arthur and Pasty cross the street
tmblg: British artist Stephen Wiltshire is currently attempting to draw the Manhattan skyline from memory. since Monday October 26th. Wiltshire began filling in an 18 foot canvas at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. The drawing is expected to be complete by Friday. You can follow his progress through the live webcam here.
Wiltshire diagnosed with autism at the age of three displays an unusually powerful photographic memory that he has applied to rendering city scapes. He can look at the subject of his drawing once and reproduce it accurately with photographic detail, down to the exact number of columns or windows on a building. He memorizes their shapes, locations and the architecture.
go Pratt!
I look good with a beard, Lee and my costumes are coming together nicely.
our costumes are going to kick ass.
I’ve been reading alot more in that last 6 months and with Amazon being the leader in digital books, I’d like to get a Kindle; but there are two features missing from the Kindle that’s been holding me back. One feature is software related; the other is hardware related.
1. If I had a Kindle, and my friends had a Kindle, why can’t I borrow books from them?
Microsoft’s Zune player experimented with this feature but with the sharing of music, it didn’t do so well because the restrictions were ridiculous (you have it for 3 days or 3 plays which ever came first).
How would borrowing a book from a friend work on a Kindle?
Here is how I would like to see it work:
You sync up wirelessly with your friend’s Kindle; you look at their selection of titles and pick one to borrow. That book would transfer to your Kindle.
Obviously there would be some restrictions.
• Your friend can’t read that book on his/her device while I am.
• Once you have the book you can’t let someone else borrow it (because you don’t own it).
• You would have the book to read until you either finish it or in 14 days, whichever comes first.
• Then the book would delete automatically off your device and your friend would get some sort of notification that you either finished reading the book or that the borrowing period had ended. It would then return to your friend.
Books were created to share knowledge.
Everything digital is so easily shared now; why can’t I share a digital book?
2. One thing that is great about regular (paper) books is that you don’t have to charge them.
The Kindle is the first book ever that you have to plug in and charge.
Sure the charge lasts 4 days with the wireless turned on, and up to 2 weeks with it off. But what if you didn’t have to plug it in at all?
My solution?
