Morning Bird Pic

Just as with photography, I like birds with lots of color, but I also have an affection for B&W. One of my favorite birds to watch is the Carolina Chickadee: a small gray bird that will swoop down on the feeder, grab a single seed, and take off to eat it elsewhere -- unlike the many birds that will sit on the feeder and stuff themselves as if it were an all-you-can-eat buffet. Here's a chickadee staring at the feeder as if to say "What the hell is THAT?"

Yes. This.

As often happens, John Scalzi says it so well that the rest of us can just point to his post and say: "This!" If you're a writer and you're paying attention to what Amazon has been doing, this deconstructs Amazon's position from a writer's perspective.