Don’t say Twitter never gave you anything

Do you follow Amazon’s MP3 Twitter feed? When you do or you don’t, they’re celebrating having passed the million-follower mark. That means you can help yourself to a free MP3 download (worth up to $1.29) between now and September 6th, 2009. Now...

Winner of the Thimbler Jeans contest

Where did today go? No, seriously. Where?? Okay, regardless of the fact that it took me almost all day to get around to it, I do have a winner in the contest for custom jeans from Thimbler. We had a huge response to this one—I guess many of us know the...

Ice, ice baby

One of the first appliances I received was my new refrigerator. And other than being able to say “ooooh, shiny!” when it arrived—the stainless steel replaced a boring old white fridge—I really didn’t think too much about it. Because,...

Extended Labor Day remix

I think that with all of the sales we’re likely to see coming up this weekend, someone ought to write a really excellent rap song including all of the “today only!” and “limited time!” and “extra special quadruple savings!”...

Because I like to hear it all sounded out

I recently upgraded to a GPS unit that has text-to-speech, which our first one didn’t have. The first one said “In point four miles, turn right.” The new one says, “In point four miles, turn right on highway four hundred forty one.” And...

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