There are officially too many damn ebook readers.
There will soon be two kinds of happy ebook-reader owners. The people who paid a fair amount for a reputable ebook reader from one of the companies they already buy books from, and the people who spend like $50 on a no-name ebook reader that supports a lot of formats, who gets every book they can think of as a pirated copy over BitTorrent. Everyone else—both the buyers of tier-two ebook readers and the makers of them—are going to be screwed.
Not quite the way I would have put it, but not wrong.
E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi's Amazing Transflective LCD Just Killed It
It's a real LCD display that turns seemlessly into a non-backlit display a la eink, without the lag in update time or the other difficulties of eink. I'm still waiting for a production model, though. Show me something I can buy!
Catherynne M. Valente tells us How to Write a Novel in 30 Days. Suck it, VanderMeer!
And finally, Avatar and American Imperialism gives us a pretty good analysis of the film Avatar's psuedo-anti-imperialist message.