- Austrailian Dateline About New Abu Ghraib Photos—Graphic!
- News Map #1
- News Map #2
- Don’t Copy That Floppy!—Old, but always a winner!
- Far Cry Instincts Pretties
- Homemade Video Scaler for Those with HDTV
- Electronic Graffiti
Category: web
Links 2/14
Happy Valentines Day everyone!
- Real Life Emoticons
- Water Purity Test in FL
- Decorated Bananas—Bananinja, need I say more?
- Awesome Touchscreen
- Free Robot Sex
- North East Blizzard of 2006 Images
- Interesting Flikr Tag Based on Photoshop Plugin
- Ebay Strangeness
- Image the Home in 2020
Links 2/10
- Chuck Norris T-Shirts—Officially sanctioned!
- Real Video iPod?—If this is what will really come out, I’d be a lot more tempted to get one.
Links 2/7
- Chuck Norris Is…
- Fattest Brit Dies From, You Guessed It, A Heart Attack
- Turn On—The Beverage
- Hardware Virtualization Tech Can Be Turned On
- Onine Job Hunting Just Got Harder
- IT Crowd—Watch IT! 😆
Borders
Online purchasing has really changed the way people do their buying. However, there are definitely a few quirks that need to be ironed out. Case in point:
On Friday, I decided I wanted to get a book. So, first off I go and find out who has it, what the prices are, etc, online. Of course, I hit up amazon.com to begin with. It turns out they have the book for $35.99 with free shipping (and no tax). Then I remembered that there’s a Borders just down the street from my office. Not remember who Amazon was parnered with, I do a search for Borders, and turns out they were the large B&M store with the Amazon partnership. As you can see, it’s the same price at Borders as it is at Amazon.
I head down after work, not even sure if they’ll have the book, to find out that at the B&M store, it’s $59.99. I ask if they pricematch their own online store. They do not. So I leave with no book in hand. As soon as I got home, I went and ordered it online. The instore experience wasn’t that great either, with overcrowded aisles and unhelpful staff.
How can a store not keep the same price throughout? Is instant-gratification worth a 50% (including tax) markup to people? What, other than being able to thumb-through a book which wasn’t necissary in my purchase, do people think justifies this 50% markup?
Links 2/3
- Aeron Chaise
- Transparent to Fogged Glass Depending on View
- Robotic Deer in Indiana—Tastes Like Chicken!
- Apple Sued Over iPod db Levels—This is what’s wrong with America. Because someone is too stupid to turn down the volume, he feels it’s the companies fault for allowing him to do it. I’m sure this is the same type of person that enjoys choice. Just what we need, another bright orange warning label on something.
- Law & Order: SVU Valentines—These are for Colleen and Aaron.
- Free VMWare GSX?
Links 1/31
- The I Hate to Cook Book—Erin, I think this might be for you?
- To Live in the 50’s—Those kids are scary
Links 1/30
- 36-month Vehicle Dependability Study—So glad I own a VW right now %-P. Fortunately, those are for 2002 model years.
- For Nick
- Tilt-Shift Photography
- Free Beer Pouring Robots—The Japanese get all the cool stuff.
- Scary Nerds
- For Erin
- Superbowl’s Gonna Look Purty at My Place
- Yes Please!
- Transparent OLEDs—Wow, it’s amazing seeing the stuff we talked about in my MatSE classes come to life.
Links 1/25
- Why Health Insurance Shouldn’t be Government (Taxpayer) Subsidized
- Test Bed for Content Management Systems (CMS)
- Awesome Room Screen
- Another Awesome Room Screen
- Music Video Story of Atari’s ET
- Wooden Clock Kits
- Best Buy to do Online Rebates—It’s about time.
Links 1/24
- NASCAR to Join the Rest of the World and Go Unleaded in 2008—Good to see that if it’s a “sporting event” it doesn’t have to follow the rules the rest of us do.
- What One Can Do with the Xbox360 Power Brick
- More Guitar Hero Awesome-ness
- Some Fresh Looking Hardware
- Pretties
- Xbox Live Update to Download in Parallel
- MacBooks Not 4x Faster Than G5’s—Here’s a shocker.
- Fireplaces
- Lotta Burger