After much secrecy, the mascots for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver/Whistler have been unveiled. Prior to today’s announcement, there were speculations it could be a moose, the spirit bear, or a marmot. None of those, in fact, turned out to be the mascots (although the spirit bear was pretty close). Plural. For 2010, Vancouver will have 3 official mascots: Quatchi, a sasquatch; Miga, a sea bear (part killer whale, part Kermode bear, or “spirit bear”; and Sumi, part orca whale, part thunderbird, and part black bear. The official 2010 website now has an area up featuring the mascots. There’s also a sidekick mascot, Mukmuk, that exists only in the virtual world.

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Amazon has just introduced their new wireless reading device called Kindle. I had heard about it prior to the public announcement and had seen images of it but after watching the demo video Amazon had on their product page, I was very intrigued. Asthetically, the Kindle is comparable in size to a novel and weighs just 10.3 oz, yet has the capacity to hold hundreds of books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. It’s the literary equivalent to the iPod (which is probably the reason why someone created e-book readers).

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