Remains of the Day: Ping ping ping with a swing

22.12.2010
NPR gives Ping a serious ding, a leather cover makes Kindles crash and burn, and we bring you the nativity scene for the ultimate Apple fan in your life. The remainders for Tuesday, December 21, 2010 are following yonder star.

(NPR)

We’re —but National Public Radio didn’t like it. Apple’s music-based social network was accorded the dubious honor of being one of “The Worst Ideas of 2010” according to NPR’s music blog, The Record. What, Lady Gaga didn't place? This thing is rigged.

(Connectify)

Turns out that Amazon’s leather covers for the Kindle (the ones without the built-in reading light, anyway) were causing the e-readers to crash as the black paint wore off the attaching hooks and short-circuited the device. This is a problem I never have with my hardcover books.

(Fortune)