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free Kindle and gross commericalism

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2010.11.08

I've added a banner from Amazon across the top of most of the emuu.net website.

If someone follows the link to Amazon and buys something, I get a small "store credit" as it were. They'd be feeding my book habit. And they might even let me save up for a Kindle. Mmmmm, free Kindle.

Overall, it's something that suits me more than does Google's "adsense". Moreover, I decided that I'd rather go with Amazon this than work with Google because they did something recently involving my baby business that left a bad taste in my mouth. So much so that I've decided to remove them from my life wherever possible. For several months I've been using DuckDuckGo for high-speed, feature-rich, and anonymous web searching. I'm preparing to free myself of Google's mail service and "Google docs". I don't think I'll use one of their crummy iPhone knockoffs.

rand()m quote

Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

—Hermann Goering