Joining the growing lineup of e-book readers that include the Kindle and, soon, the iPad is the Entourage Edge. An AP tech writer says the $499 Edge has some good features, but is flawed by short battery life.
We won’t be completely sold on e-books until someone invents an app that emits the slightly musty smell of a good used-bookstore find.
Keep an eye on the “above-average kids”: A reader from Oklahoma City asks our TV Q&A writer what happened to the TruTV show, “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.” TruTV only commissioned a seven-episode season and the show, starring the former wrestler and Minnesota governor, hasn’t been picked up for renewal.
But we know the real truth: The Trilateral Commission, World Wrestling Entertainment and Garrison Keillor plotted to have Ventura taken off the air because he was about to reveal the truth about their plans for 2012. (Which we can’t be more specific about right now; Keillor’s in Seattle this week.)
Invisible Inc.: If you’ve got secrets you want to keep from — ahem — certain people, a new software program, Secret Media, allows you to embed text messages in mp3, jpg and other computer files.
Geez. We just sent in for our Secret Decoder Ring, and now we have to spend more money on an upgrade.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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