This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

Neven Mrgan:

The New York Times has a ridiculous interview with Jeff Bezos about the Kindle:

Barnes & Noble claims on its Web site that the Nook has several advantages over the Kindle — for one thing, a Nook book can be lent to friends. You can forward the text to another user.

The current thing being talked about is extremely limited. You can lend to one friend. One time. You can’t pick two friends, not even serially, so once you’ve loaned one book to one friend, that’s it.

You have to pick just one person? What are you saying? It’s like “Sophie’s Choice”?

It is “Sophie’s Choice.” Very nicely done.

As Paul Kafasis points out:

I don’t believe either of these people have any idea what exactly Sophie’s choice was. Sophie had to choose which of her children would be murdered. By Nazis.

It’s not every day the New York Times and the head of one of the largest retailers in the world take a moment to make a correlation between sharing books and Auschwitz horrors.

But you know, if you think about it, it really is pretty much exactly the same. I mean, sharing with only one person? Please. Take my daughter already.