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Kindle Fire an Aptly Named Product (Yes, This is About Amazon’s Deplorable Working Conditions in the Lehigh Valley)

~ Chris Cocca ~ 7 Comments

Twitter is just ablaze (see what I did there?) with news about Amazon’s new Kindle Fire.  It’s touch. It’s cheap. It slices and dices and makes three different (pizza slice falls on Master Splinter’s head.  I never did have resolution about that).

The Kindle Fire by Amazon.  The must-have gift this Christmas.  The incredible price point of $199.  Made possible, of course, because Amazon runs facilities like those in Breinigsville, Lehigh Valley, PA, where conditions over the summer were so unsafe that Amazon used the local ambulance corps. as a concierge service.  “Well, you know, it was hot this summer,” says Amazon.  Then why weren’t the same dangerous conditions observed at any of the many other warehouses in within a stone’s throw of Amazon’s facilities? Curiouser and curiouser.

The Kindle Fire: Because Our Warehouses Are Hot as Hell!

The Kindle Fire: Because That’s What We Do To Temps and Employees Who Use Heat-Induced Sick Days!

The Kindle Fire: So Cheap, We’re Hoping You Ignore our Human Rights and Safety Violations!

The Kindle Fire: Give the Gift of Worker Abuse This Christmas!

Kindle Covers For People Who Like To Read

~ Chris Cocca ~ 1 Comment

If you’re like me, you haven’t found that perfect Kindle cover yet.  (If you’re like me, you also keep stealing your spouse’s Kindle and won’t stop calling it  “ours” or “mine.”)  It’s not that you’re picky, it’s just that it’s incredibly hard to find a good cover for these things that says “yes, I’m using this to read.”  Everything I keep seeing is somewhere between day-planner and attache and they’re all pink or cordovan (incidentally, both go great with brown).  But today I found these:

Pretty sweet, right?  Check them out here.