Find ebays hidden question September 30, 2007 3 comments
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 reflects how ebay has gone from the early days of casual sellers (when the real bargains could be found) to a fully automated money making machine. This email is just the tip of the iceburg. Shame on them and the unfriendly web they weave.
links for 2007-09-29 September 29, 2007
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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!
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Tokyo photographer peeps the peeping tom’s. NY Times slideshow.
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Apparently this is the subsurb that inspired the Weeds intro, “Little Boxes”. Ironically, this burb looks refreshingly unlike California.
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A group of kids has formed a “mini-laptop club.” They don’t use electronic machines. Instead, these first-, second- and third-graders draw their own laptops on construction paper and pretend to e-mail each other.
Amazon in the mp3 business September 28, 2007 1 comment
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 people who buy music from iTunes are so comfortable with that interface, that there’s little reason to go a totally different route.
links for 2007-09-22 September 22, 2007
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Slightly amusing music advertisements.
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Some beautiful billboards
links for 2007-09-15 September 15, 2007
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“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.
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Some signs & beaches from a new URL and new NY home of Bryan ‘Metal’ Winters.
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They’ve gone offline.
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If only there was a “CLICK HERE” kite this thing could chase around!
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Susan Savage-Rumbaugh - TEDTalks
SuprGlu September 14, 2007 2 comments
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 I absolutely love, but I assume it will be more of a central location for all shared Google activity.
This brings to mind SuprGlu - a site I started using awhile back, where you create an account & paste in the RSS feeds of whatever you’d like. I gave it the RSS feeds of my sites (including comments), my Flickr account, Delicious, Last.fm & google reader shared items - resulting in a single site of (most of) my online activity:
http://soupenvy.suprglu.com/
links for 2007-09-09 September 9, 2007
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Where there are people, there are marketers.
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I haven’t tried this out, but any help at all when it comes to pulling estimates out of your ass is useful.
Blockbuster September 8, 2007
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 from your queue.” Why yes Blockbuster, I would - and please do this for me in the future!
By the way, as you might expect, I think I love My Wife isn’t very good, even if you are a Chris Rock fan.
Google Answers my Questions September 6, 2007
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, but my question was answered right in the first search result:
“Danny Devito — Height 5′, according to http://imdb.com/”
Naturally, there’s a ton of useful things google does; but it’s so very rewarding when it does the unexpected, right at the perfect moment.
Google Reader Gets Search September 5, 2007 1 comment
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 improvements to some of the sites I use frequently, in particular the Google products - Reader, Gmail and Calendar (Google Docs hasn’t worked in Opera since as long as I’ve been using it). Those improvements alone have allowed me to begin using Opera more frequently, so much so that I’m a recent convert (the rendering speed & interface response is blazing compared to that clunker called Firefox).
The latest update to Google Reader may pose some problems however, as nothing other than the logo displays correctly:
Update: Although Google Reader doesn’t officially support Opera, they had it working again 24 hours later.