It was barely 10 days ago when the news broke of Amazon's Bezos investing $5 million is Blodget's web site, Business Insider. Most saw it as Bezos' genius investing in the up and coming web site. I just saw it as one pal taking care of another, as Blodget has been a vociferous support for — Continue reading »
$231,000 Star Trek Rifle
📆 April 8, 2013
A rifle prop from the original Star Trek pilot was recently sold by an auction house for nearly a quarter of a million dollars. Normally I would scoff at such excesses, but then this is Star Trek. If I had that kind of disposable money, I would probably splurge quite a bit on the Star — Continue reading »
Jail Lodging @ $30/Night
📆 April 3, 2013
A new Nebraska jail has invited people to act as guinea pigs and test the facility. For $30 participants get a taste of being an inmate for one night plus a couple of meals. Proceeds go to charity. Strange but wish I could do this. Odd invitation from Nebraska jail: Spend the night for $30 — Continue reading »
Google Keep
📆 March 22, 2013
Here comes a new service from Google called 'Keep'. It's basically a utility to create notes and task lists and access them from anywhere including one's smartphone. I suppose it is a reincarnation of the old Google Notebook. Many have dubbed Keep the Evernote killer. Probably an over-reaction, but I don't use Evernote. Years ago I created — Continue reading »
Amazon’s .book domain grab
📆 March 11, 2013
I'm not sure why anyone would see any reason behind Amazon's move to hoard a bunch of gTLDs (global top level domains), other than pure greed. In a recent open letter (PDF) to ICANN, Association of American Publishers rightfully opposed granting Amazon the control of the .book gTLD. It states: In short, Amazon makes clear — Continue reading »
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