Highlights (10.01)

It’s October, and you know what that means…Christmas!

No, not really. But everyone is announcing their new products and the biggest announce­ment so far is the Amazon Kindle Fire aka the first real chal­lenger to the iPad. As an entre­pre­neur and tech lover, I’ll be paying attention to this over the next few months. If you want one in time for Christmas, it’s probably a good idea to order now. They might run out as the season gets closer. Hurry up and order yours so I can get the commis­sion and order my own! lol.

Okay, down to business. Here are this week’s highlights:

Amazon Takes On Apple — Here is the low down on what’s going on with the Kindle Fire vs. iPad: “Amazon’s announce­ments this morning were the most important in the gadget world since Apple announced the iPad on January 27, 2010. With the announce­ment of a $79 regular Kindle, $99 touch-enabled Kindle, and $199 Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon set itself up for a Christmas clash with Apple’s iOS jugger­naut. While many tablet contenders have come at Apple, few can throw as many punches as Amazon.”

E-Books Directory — this site takes all the free ebooks on the web and puts them in a single place where you can download and read them. This may be the best free resource I have found in a very long time.

Obama Is Not A Socialist Part 2 — Matt Rawling continues his fantastic series on Obama’s politics. Required reading for all voters (espe­cially conser­v­a­tives who call Obama a Socialist).

The Dangers Of A Single Story — Bryan Davis high­lights a recent TED talk that explains the dangers of a single story. “Stereo-types are created when we take one story, one scenario, one event and play it over and over again until that becomes the only view.”

What Cohab­i­ta­tion Does For Marriage — A compelling article on what research shows in relation to cohab­i­ta­tion and marriage. “But unmarried cohab­i­ta­tion is the fastest growing family/domestic form in the United States as well as most of the Western world. It’s exploding, having increased 15-fold since 1960. And that growth has more than doubled in real numbers since the mid-1990s in the U.S.”

Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead — This is a docu­men­tary I’ll be picking up. Check out the trailer.