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Ben over at Instigator Blog noticed some funny business on Home Depot’s (Canadian) website. It appears as if a biased party has submitted comments on a couple items that he was investigating (in this case, rugs). The comments were very similar for 3 different rugs, but from different users. I’ll not steal his limelight and […]

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My attention has been drawn to this video. It’s a pretty humorous attempt to write a simple perl script using Vista’s voice recognition feature. While it’s not as awful as it could be (and there certainly have been more awful attempts), it can hardly be viewed as “usable”. I’m not even sure why companies keep […]

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The FCC is complaining about Prince’s halftime show because of a ‘phallic’ reference. At a point in the show, Prince played his guitar behind a large sheet which had his shadow projected onto it. The fashion in which he was holding his guitar created an image that slightly resembled a penis.
This is a complete outrage, […]

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Geico has some genius marketers working for them. The most recent commercial, the one with the cavemen at the party, and the dudes arguing about the one using Geico. The third caveman walks out and says something along the lines of, “Tina’s here, we’re getting back together.” One of the dudes arguing turns to him […]

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There’s a new Carnival of Entrepreneurs posted over at startupspark.com. Basically, it’s a call on people to write about any and all things entrepreneur. If you have any interest in running your own business, I suggest you go take a look. There’s a lot of great information there from a lot of successful people.
I took […]

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Not to dwell on the iPhone anymore than necessary (it’s not that interesting), but Cingular announced that it will only be available with a 2-year contract. What is wrong with this company? They get something this good (and it’s going to be great for them), and find a way to piss off a corner of […]

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