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File: August 2007

2007-08-26 :: mark // General + Internet
The randomness of movies

As a Netflix.com subscriber, I recently put the Netflix New Releases RSS feed into my reader. Wow. I never knew how many movies were made, and then subsequently released on DVD. My guess is about a crapton. And before you go thinking that these are all Transformers: The Movie quality movies (duh, the 1986 version), [...]

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2007-08-26 :: mark // General + Hardware
Racist MP3 player

I don’t have one, but this company does. Holy crap. Thanks to FSJ for showing us this. And for relevance, check out the top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs, and this post with a few more. Great Sunday reading. Update: Seems TrekStore has had a change of heart. Via Gizmodo, the VP of TrekStor writes: [...]

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2007-08-26 :: mark // General + Internet
Hipster Olympics

Remember when I asked, “where would we be without the Internet” (or something like that)? The same can be applied to cheap DV cameras and an acerbic sense of humor. Check out the Hipster Olympics at YouTube. Great stuff. Goes down well with some articles on new (and old) yuppies.

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Core77.com is my new favorite read. Thanks to them, I’m seeing the CagninaDesign Tempo external wireless Trash Can. Deleted files get transferred wirelessly to the can. The can, of course, has physical cues to tell you how full it is. Very cool. I’d just hate to see someone delete a giant 5GB ISO or something [...]

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Just an update: geohot got on NPR, of all places, this evening. Wow. That mainstream enough for you?

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