Archive for September, 2007

September 30 2007

Find ebays hidden question

This is a screenshot of an email that ebay.com sends you when a potential buyer has a question about an auction.
Can YOU find the actual question? Now picture a few auctions with a couple of questions each. The search for ebays hidden question is tantamount to an extremely not fun game of Operation.

I think this […]

September 29 2007

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Love Park Fountain To Be Doused With Fake Blood In Clever Yet Depressing Promotional Excercise
Philebrity says, “Wait a minute: You can’t fucking skateboard in Love Park anymore, but for the right price, you can fill the fountain with fake Hollywood blood for the day?”
I say, Ummm… Of course!

Layers of Voyeurism | The New York Times
Tokyo […]

September 28 2007

Amazon in the mp3 business

Amazon mp3 beta claims it has 2 million DRM free songs, each priced from 89 cents to 99 cents. More than 1 million of the 2 million songs are priced at 89 cents. The top 100 best-selling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99…
I’m just assuming the […]

September 22 2007

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Probably not an accident
Slightly amusing music advertisements.

Accidental Typography
Some beautiful billboards

September 15 2007

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When ‘piracy’ is easier than legal purchase
“It’s now possible for users worldwide to wake up to the latest episode of The Daily Show, without paying a penny, or being locked into a restrictive DRM scheme.” - Interesting CNET article, tutorial included.

errorsystem - sumthings up…
Some signs & beaches from a new URL and new NY home […]

September 14 2007

SuprGlu

There seems to be a hot topic afloat regarding a leaked Google video showing their plans to offer “activity streams“. Basically, RSS that shows what your friends are doing, ala Facebook news feeds (which I must say, I haven’t used for myself). It sounds very similar to shared Google items, a Google Reader feature […]

September 9 2007

links for 2007-09-09

Download This: YouTube Phenom Has a Big Secret
Where there are people, there are marketers.

FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool)
I haven’t tried this out, but any help at all when it comes to pulling estimates out of your ass is useful.

September 8 2007

Blockbuster

Usually, if I physically rent a movie from my local blockbuster I need to remember to remove it from my Blockbuster.com rental queue. To my suprise, when I went to do just that I was welcomed with this little screen that says “Hey, you just rented this, maybe you’d like to remove it […]

September 6 2007

Google Answers my Questions

Danny Devito was on last nights Letterman. I always knew he was short, but my god is he short. So much so, that I needed an exact measurement.
As we all would do in this situation, I posed the question to google. To my amazement not only did I find what I was looking for, […]

September 5 2007

Google Reader Gets Search

It makes sense to have search functionality in Google Reader, which they added today, seeing as how it’s a Goolge product. That’s not the point of this post though, the point is to mention that after the addition of search, Google Reader no longer works in Opera.
With the recently released Opera 9.2.3 came […]