Archive for the ‘Buy buy buy!’ Category
The outrage over downloading. . . from both sides
Boing Boing has a doozy, with The Hurt Locker producer angrily lashing out against someone who emailed him with a delicious boycott over righteous outrage over some lawsuits the producer’s company is filing against Bittorrent downloaders. I so much want to quote the entirety of the thing because it’s all relevant, but that ain’t right. [...]
Redbox’s brilliant bullshit business model
I’ve figured out how redbox works and it’s absolutely fucking brilliant. Here’s how they rake in cash hand over fist: Put a box in the neighborhood grocery store. Put some movies in the box. Get people to actually rent a movie. They’re only $1 a night! Now this is key: Never allow the customer to [...]
Amazon tries to play martyr
There’s plenty of places with information about the ongoing battle between Amazon and Macmillan publishing. I’m not going to delve too deeply into the mire, but I find it amazing how adroitly Amazon is shooting themselves in the dick over the pricing battle. Let me share part of their response. We have expressed our strong [...]
Amazon’s Kindle eBook service
Today Amazon officially announced the Kindle E-Ink based digital book. It ain’t pretty but it packs some impressive features. EVDO wireless connection with included service. That’s right, no wireless bill. Access to Wikipedia and dictionary included. Reading Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver on your Kindle and want to learn more about bastinado? Cake. Select it and off [...]
The ISC is dead, long live the ISC!
Faced with an Imperial Smoothie Cruiser — the stalwart silver ’98 Dodge Intrepid ES — sporting over 100,000 miles I chose the only rational option. Buy a 2008 Mazdaspeed 3! Ah, the glories of a car payment. Julia picked out the color, by the way. According to Mazda literature that color is “True Red”. According [...]
Latency is a bitch
Way back in the waning days of 2006 I embarked on a mission to get my wife a Nintendo DS Lite. I remarked that finding one was quite akin to tracking a fabled beast, where various signs lead you in directions that end invariably in failure. Then one day in early January I caught a [...]
iPhone: A kick straight to the Zune’s crotch
You knew I had to comment on this thing. Had to. Steve Jobs waltzed out and quite calmly smacked the cell phone — and MP3 player, for that matter — market on its collective ass with the announcement of Apple Computer, Inc.’s iPhone. Packing a widescreen touchscreen, a 4 or 8GB iPod Video, “free” push [...]
Blingo! Don’t say I never won anything
I WON! Admittedly, I’ve been using Blingo for my searches for a looooong time. I’ve never won anything. Javahead has, after I told him about it which seems so unfair. Well my day finally came, as evidenced by the picture above. A $25 Amazon gift certificate which immediately went to acquiring The Algebraist by Iain [...]
