It was right out of Orwell’s novel 1984, when Big Brother (aka Amazon.com in this instance) without warning its customers, erased the books Animal Farm and 1984 from its Kindle ebook inventory. And from the Kindle devices of those who’d paid for the books as well.
Oh, didn’t you know? They can do that. (Continues below image.)

The problem stemmed from the fact that one of Amazon’s digital publishers, a company called MobileReference, had placed the two books for sale on Amazon, without actually owning the rights to do so. When they were notified of the copyright violation, Amazon took the extreme …read more

As we count down to the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, we’re going to look at past Olympic opening ceremonies…one each day until we get to Beijing. Below is a video with the highlights from the Los Angeles Opening Ceremonies.