Amazon’s turning people into machines with their Mechanical Turk project. It’s actually a great idea – package up simple tasks that computers can’t do but humans can, and make it easy for humans to do the work for micropayments. I spent some time rating the quality of pictures of storefronts in various US cities, and […]
7Search has a list of supposedly the top 100 paying keywords on Google Adsense. I have no idea if this list is correct but I can only hope it’s not. According to it, every single one of the top 100 paying keywords is related to online gambling. Most blog spam seems to be filled with […]
Last night’s SNL was a clip show – usually a bad thing – but the clips were all parodies of commercials. This is the stuff SNL does best – if you can catch a rerun, watch it!
Bill McCoy (an Adobe Blogger) mentions Zinio, a company I’d never heard of. They let you subscribe to traditional magazines and receive PDF versions of those magazines. Cool service. The Zinio Reader is the first eBook reader that understands that I want to see the pages close-up. When you’re reading a magazine with it, you […]
One thing I don’t like about the new iTunes interface is the way they do menus. This is especially cheap looking: They simply XOR a rectangle over the selected menu when you click on it. Notice that the left edge of the XOR rectangle is actually hitting bits of the window border. Compare this with […]
X10.com is a cheesy site that’s always doing something annoying with their advertising. There’s always a closeout, always a last minute deal, always something going on that’s BRAND NEW AND WE’LL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN OMG THE PRICES ARE SO LOW. But that aside, they do have some cool stuff, and the prices are good. […]
The Fed raised the interest rate in the US to 4 %. Something like the 12th rate hike in a row. We bought a new house; we’re moving in April. I have a house I need to sell. Rising interest rates makes it harder to sell houses. So for me, this is a bad thing. […]
Here’s a clever blog. Must hurt his indexability that every post is a picture, though.
live.com looks like start.com, except that start.com work in Firefox and live.com does not.
You know you want one of these.