Link to Why you can't get iPods at a discount. - By Sean Cooper - Slate Magazine
Ever wonder why the prices for some things vary so wildly from store to store, even from week to week? Ever notice that iPods, in fact ALL Apple products, are the same price no matter where you go? Ever been shopping online and found an item that you had to add to your cart to find out the price? Slate's got the answer, and I'll reveal it all, just read more… (more…)
CollisionDetection.net has an interesting article up right now commenting on a Chuck Klosterman piece in Esquire, about how YouTube is empowering a resurgence in guitar as an art form.
Look! Up on YouTube! It's a TV show! It's a Podcast! No, it's a behind the scenes look at the founding and running of PayPerPost, which is a new-ish Web 2.0 company. I know, some of you out there are saying, "Reality TV is bad enough on the Tube, why would I watch it online?" but hear me out… after the jump. (more…)
Over the next few months you might notice a new category to some posts. The category is Pay Per Post and essentially, it seems like a pretty good idea. More about this…after the jump. (more…)
Link to iTunes Store - John Hodgman - The Areas of My Expertise (Abridged Nonfiction) - The Areas of My Expertise
Most people know the polymathic John Hodgman as the likable "PC - Guy" on the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" adds for Apple. But before he was a likeable counterpoint to the snarky "Mac Guy", Hodgman wrote a book called "The Areas Of My Expertise", which is a "satirical almanac." Now, in its wisdom, Apple is giving away the entirety of the audiobook for free.
The full title of the book is actually:
An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by Me, John Hodgman, a Professional Writer, in the Areas of My Expertise, which Include: Matters Historical; Matters Literary; Matters Cryptozoological; Hobo Matters; Food, Drink, & Cheese (a Kind of Food); Squirrels & Lobsters & Eels; Haircuts; Utopia; What Will Happen in the Future; and Most Other Subjects; Illustrated with a Reasonable Number of Tables and Figures, and Featuring the Best of "Were You Aware of It?", John Hodgman's Long-Running Newspaper Novelty Column of Strange Facts and Oddities of the Bizarre
Get it yet? Not to be missed is Hodgemans recitation of 700 Hobo names, complete with Jonathan Coulton playing "Big Rock Candy Mountain".
You know, I'm not one to repeat press releases verbatim, but:
On Dec. 22, Nintendo and Opera Software bring the Internet to the living room couch with a free trial version of the Opera Web browser. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can download a free trial Opera browser to activate the Internet Channel of the Wii Menu and begin surfing the Web. Link to NINTENDO press release
Pant pant drool drool… more after the click.
So, in addition to the permalinks, I spent some time tonight working the CSS and design of the site. I found a nice little javascript so that even those of you using Internet Explorer (and shame on you) can see the design as it's intended.
I also added a nice shading to the sidebar and gave it and the footer the pretty rounded corners that the featured section has. Lastly, I've added a date badge to the featured post for interest.
All of which raises the question, how much do you have to modify code (in this case the site theme) before it's no longer really attributable to the original designer? That's a really good question… hmmm, I smell another blog post… but it's twenty to one and I'm sleepy so it will have to wait. G'night.
Hope y'all like it.
Well, I don't know if it's random chance or my über-coolness but I FINALLY got decent permalinks running on the site here. Translation: the full URLs for posts will now be things like: http://www.brianandpamela.com/a-really-interesting-post/ instead of http://www.brianandpamela.com/?p=2982374987243987523984 – which while numerically interesting and fascinating for you math-y types was begining to give me heartburn. Or perhaps that was the shrimp, either way, it's better now.
Oh, and if I had to bet, I'd go with the über-coolness, because hey, I can type a "ü".
Link to Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » New Digg Features O’ Plenty
Digg.com this morning launched a site redesign and added some really great new features. See the linked story for Digg founder Kevin Rose's blog post. more after the jump… (more…)
Link to Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Bill Gates On The Future Of DRM
Microsoft had a couple of bloggers up to Redmond to meet with (among other people) Bill Gates. Mike Arrington is reporting in TechCrunch that in response to a question about DRM, Gates responded that he agreed DRM had major issues.
Quoth Techcrunch (quoting Gates…how's that for fourth hand sources?):
Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which “causes too much pain for legitmate buyers” while trying to distinguish between legal and illegal uses. He says no one has done it right, yet. There are “huge problems” with DRM, he says, and “we need more flexible models, such as the ability to “buy an artist out for life” (not sure what he means). He also criticized DRM schemes that try to install intelligence in each copy so that it is device specific.
His short term advice: “People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then.”
You heard the man… what are you waiting for? Rip…Mix…Burn, baby burn.
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