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Link: Notion Ink Adam: Pricing and more – SlashGear

Link: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now Recommend “The Newspaper” As the Best e-Reader On the Market.

For the past three weeks our team of engineers has analyzed the most popular e-readers on the market in order to confer our annual “Editor’s Choice” Award.

Link: Pencil Tip Micro Sculptures By Dalton Ghetti

One of the most fascinating things about these tiny works of art is that he has never sold them, only given away to friends as gifts.

Link: HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers

Internet Explorer 9 is shaping up to be a great broswer.

Platform Preview 4 is an important milestone on the way to beta. It is the last preview before the IE9 Beta.

Link: Daring Fireball Linked List: Wad City: ‘Why I Miss the Blinking Red Light’

The trackball light on the Nexus One repeatedly pulses when the phone receives a notification. This is one of the details that by itself appears trivial, but enhances the usability considerably.

Link: Prop. 8 overturned in California

Proposition 8 — which ruled same-sex couples could not marry in California — was overturned in the state today by a judge claiming the proposition was unconstitutional. Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that due-process and equal-protection clauses conflicted with the proposition.

Link: Update on Google Wave

We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.

Link: 2degrees Mobile Broadband – my views, zoning, pricing, comparison, and tips

Link: From The Hip: Telcos, this is how users want to pay for mobile data…

After the long, circular, and confusing discussion on Twitter this evening around what the hell we’re paying for and getting when we chose a data plan for a mobile device, I think it’s time for a clean slate outline of how I, and I think others would like to purchase mobile data.

1. Forget…

Link: NZ abstains on UN water resolution

Shame.

New Zealand is among 41 countries that abstained from voting on Wednesday on a United Nations resolution supporting the right for everyone to have safe drinking water and sanitation.