April 2009
148 posts
txvoodoo: Using Amazon giftcards for Kindle →
I didn’t know this was possible. And worse: I had noticed that my last three Kindle book purchases were paid with a gift card balance, not with a credit card. I simply had no clue that this was happening until @mearsfan mentioned it earlier today. I was foaming at the mouth earlier today because I saw a Sony eBook reader at Target and they were selling gift cards for books, something that I...
March 2009
169 posts
Your Constitutional Right To Spam - Once tough... →
Oopsie. We tried, but it’s just not possible, even here in Virginia we try to take the constitution seriously.
Chrysler, Fiat agree on global linkup →
In a shocking development, Chrysler has announced that they are gong forward with the Fiat deal, just a couple of hours after it was announced that either they made the deal or they sucked it.
I am amazed it took the two hours for the announcement to go through. I mean, after all, they had to pick between two very difficult choices:
Make the deal with Fiat, which will probably save Chrysler...
Chrome for OS X: State of the Browser →
Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told →
Diamond trade loses its luster →
Slow news day at MSNBC and the Washington Post. It actually took TWO writers to put together a piece that basically says “things are tough, so people aren’t buying diamonds.”
I guess for tomorrow’s edition they will say that the sky is blue. And to think that people actually go to school to learn to be journalists?
What about the synthetic diamonds issue? Diamonds are...
$150M buys you late TV producer's L.A. mansion →
That about the same amount of money needed to pay for one F-22 Raptor. Or the amount of AIG bonuses that haven’t been returned yet.
AIG director named to Obama tax task force →
Not for long, he is. Sometime between now and Tuesday at noon somebody is going to put out a bullshit press release explaining why this isn’t going to happen.
What gadget is at the top of your wish list?
Probably a point-and-shoot digital camera with built-in HD video. My last digital camcorder had the HD part nailed but it sucked for still photography. My current candidate is the Sony DSC-W290.
My bucket list
Get published Part of my bid for immortality.
Become the benevolent dictator of a small country I want to be the Mouse that Roared.
Live in Tokyo I hear Tokyo is electronic gadgets heaven, and I want to find out.
Learn Chinese I already speak English and Spanish. Learning Chinese would allow me to reach a LOT of people. More practical than learning German or Japanese.
Start a film...
Insomniac Coder's Production/Catering Rider
The following items are NON NEGOTIABLE. The ARTIST will not perform unless ALL items in this rider are provided EXACTLY as described. This SENTENCE may have words CAPITALIZED at RANDOM just to force you to read the whole thing.
UTZ potato chips Self-explanatory if you live in the mid Atlantic area.
Senseo dark roast coffee pods Hard as hell to find if the ARTIST forgets to bring his own...
Why giving LSD to Sayid in tonight's lost was a...
VP|bofh: that was a mistake
VP|bofh: because there's no fucking way they can believe one fucking word of whatever he tells them
VP|bofh: if he tells them the truth he has to say he crashed in the island, he was a former Iraqi intel officer and torturer
VP|bofh: and he escape the island
morgajel: I am a time traveller who did all sorts of crazy shit with your friend jim, then killed a bunch of people for your 12 year old ben
VP|bofh: and murdered everyone involved with the plot v. the island
VP|bofh: and went to the dominican republic to build houses for the poor
VP|bofh: because his wife is dead
VP|bofh: and came back to the island but travelled back in time
VP|bofh: I mean, wtf
VP|bofh: *I* wouldn't believe him
morgajel: and that ben will betray them
VP|bofh: and that Ben is the mastermind behind everything
VP|bofh: and that Ben killed the Dharma initiative
VP|bofh: and that Ben was behind the killings
VP|bofh: and that Ben helped him get back to the island but didn't travel back in time with them
Lawyer: Suleman cares for cameras, not babies →
Ouch. This is what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you.
eBook Publishers are Preying for You. →
I have said this 100 times: it doesn’t cost a penny to publish your own work through the Amazon Digital Text Platform (which feeds into the Kindle Store).
Repeat after me: it doesn’t cost a penny to take a finished book and make it pop in the Amazon Kindle store.
This means that if you want to self-publish, you can sell your books for the Kindle and not pay anyone. Amazon will take a...
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WatchGot this damn song stuck in my head and I can’t get it out.
Getting Project Gutenberg books on your Kindle «... →
Every book available on Project Gutemberg is already compatible with the Kindle, no conversion needed.
Obama tries to temper furor over AIG bonuses →
Why the hell would he want to do that? The country needed to get pissed off about this, it was the only way to crank up the political pressure against AIG and others to stop screwing around and acknowledge that they simply can’t keep doing what they have been doing since before TARP started.
If we try to cool it off, then we are sending the wrong message: that it was nothing more than sabre...
iPhone external keyboard without jailbreaking →
The coolest part of this is that they spent about $20 in parts, and they managed to do it without tampering with the phone itself.