This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:

• Amazon.com unveils slimmer Kindle 2. No color, but it talks. — The new Kindle is half the size, with 25% battery life and significantly improved storage (now 2gb). HUALUGHLAUA (Homer-esque drooling sounds)…
• Error message cake: Or why human proofreaders are still needed — The unintentionally funny consequences of online ordering systems.
• Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously) — A simple yet revolutionary step in the history of technology: it’s time to start getting rid of power cords. This breakthrough is closer than you might think!
• Google Latitude keeps tabs on friends’ locations — From a technological standpoint, this new geo-app market is a ground-breaking advance in mobile technology and social networking. From a personal point of view, I am wary.
• I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle — This piece explains why am I wary (re: above) of geotagging applications.
• Interactive Graphic: Map of Popular Super Bowl Words Used on Twitter — Fascinating and fun interactive feature from the NY Times. Try the option to just watch the emoticons…
• The world’s first 12-megapixel cameraphone is coming — It’s probably time to start adding new features to phones instead of just improving the camera indefinitely. How about projectors?
• Economy Pinches the Billable Hour at Law Firms — Clients and lawyers alike are relieved that the economic downturn may provide an opportunity to rid ourselves of the perverse incentives created by the billable hour system.
• Menstrual calendar apps…for men — One for the iPhone is called PMS Buddy. Says the founder: "Women don’t appreciate it when you come home and maybe things are a little tense and the man says ‘Hey, do you have PMS?’" Ya think?

This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:

• Letter from California: The Cobra — Inside a movie marketer’s playbook; the marketing tools Hollywood uses to find (and sometimes trick) its audience.
• Microsoft’s Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera — Some of the examples included in this article really are pretty remarkable. Photosynth crashed when I tried to install it, but the software’s potential is certainly exciting.
• Say Goodbye to Analog TV — “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” This poetic description at the start of Neuromancer is now obsolete…
• 8 Inspiring Stories Of ASCII Art — A trip down memory lane for those who’ve been a geek since at least the early 90′s.
• Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature — “Self-publishing has gone from being the last resort of the desperate and talentless to something more like out-of-town tryouts for theater or the farm system in baseball. It’s the last ripple of the Web 2.0 vibe finally washing up on publishing’s remote shores.”
• Get Emails Without Revealing Your Email Address — A free new service called “whspr!” lets you give out a URL that will email you without giving out your email address.
• Macs hit with malware attack — The lack of virus and malware attacks has long been a selling point of Apple’s, but the truth is that Macs only avoided them by virtue of their historically minuscule market share. As Macs get more popular, they become a target…
• 10 Ways to Improve Your Web Page Performance — Good, practical tips for Web developers.
• Nerd Fuel: R2-D2 Water Bottle For Star Wars Sippin’ — You get bonus nerd points if you take a sip and then make loud whirring/whistling/beeping sounds.

Today brings a small batch of updates from previous posts:

• In response to the update on setting up Gmail with your domain name, reader KA points out that Google Apps isn’t just for sole proprietors, families, and other small businesses with only a handful of employees; it scales well for larger businesses, too. While migrating an enterprise domain to Gmail a bit more of a project, the Google Apps Email Migration API was built for just this purpose.
   
• When I first mentioned the Circuit City opportunity for small business owners, the discounts were still rather anemic. Happily—for our purposes, if not theirs—liquidation prices have begun to drop.
   
• On a final, silly note, some of you were amused by the zombie-themed road sign prank from the last Weekly Links round-up. For better or for worse, hacked roadsigns are becoming a trend:

  

  My friend PS says the hackers deserve some style points, at least, as they could just as easily have filled the sign with f-bombs…