1 December, 2009

Barnes & Noble Delays nook Shipment

Gives textbook lesson on how NOT to treat customers.
Note: This article originally appeared on Technorati.
Everyone knew that the Barnes & Noble nook (yes, they irritatingly spell it with an e.e. cummings-style lower case “n”) eReader would be popular. EPUB, eReader and native PDF support, memory expansion, Wi-Fi , the ability to share books among [...]

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1 August, 2008

Spam-a-lot

Spam filters rule OK.
I have a spam filter that grabs comments it thinks are spam and holds them for review before publishing them to my site.  Most are just ridiculous link heavy piles of crap. Some try to look like comments.  I just got one that was in the latter category: it was supposed to [...]

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15 July, 2008

Elton John Dies In Rocket Ship

That’s the subject line of a spam I just got.  Not much more to say about it.  Sorta just stands on its own now, doesn’t it? A standout in creativity compared to some of the other subject lines currently in my spam folder:
Scarlett Johansson and her knockers
Always of interest, but what about them?  Are they [...]

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15 July, 2008

Wii Got Rock Band. It Rocks

The most fun possible while looking like a penis.
I bought the game Rock Band for the Wii this past weekend. Unless you live in a rabbit hutch you probably have an inkling of what this game is, or at least what sort of game it is. The genre took off with Guitar Hero, which always [...]

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6 June, 2008

Can You Hear Me Now?

So I’m in the men’s room of an office building this afternoon, you know, just hanging out and enjoying the smell of freshly rotated urinal puck, when a guy in a suit walks in and steps up to one of the urinals.  He’s quiet, keeps to himself, just a guy in a suit in [...]

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