![[Day Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/permaLink.gif){kind=small}
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Vader working in a department store -- Comment()
Chad Vader: "Day Shift Manager." Hilarious video of a less-known member of the Vader family.
|
|
Forgotten music and badly mauled books -- Comment()
Things that should not happen department: "Sometimes I just have to LOL when I see somebody cutting some corners in his job. In this case, preparing review units before shipment. [...] More than 10 gig of badly tagged music. Somebody forgot to remove his collection before returning the device." I have written about 100 book reviews, and regularly receive books from publishing houses for review. But once I personally bought a couple of books from Amazon, and wrote reviews of these for a magazine. They wanted to have pictures of the covers to accompany the reviews, and as I didn't have electronic versions I gave the books to be scanned. The books came back with the covers taken off (cut away with a knife). Apparently the magazine had just changed the typesetting firm, and someone there didn't manage to scan the books as they were, and instead cut the covers off.
|
|
-- Comment()
The Curse of Storage: "Our ever-growing collections of information and objects can lead to thoroughly modern crises that echo the past." [Wired News: Top Stories]
|
|
Home media not here yet -- Comment()
Digital home 'still 10 years off': "The vision of a digital home is still 10 years away, says a leading music technology entrepreneur." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] I have been thinking about getting a Mac mini or an iMac for home media, but so far I'm a bit hesitant. What about digital tv? In Finland we seem to have some trouble in getting digi-tv to work reliably. Having a media center for music, dvds, photos, digicam videos etc. would make sense, but integrating tv to the whole seems problematic.
|
|
-- Comment()
First spiral notebooks, article from 1934: "From the October, 1934 edition of Popular Science, this brief news article on the first spiral bound notebooks [...] Coil springs form flexible bindings for a new type of memorandum books. One edge of the covers and pages of the book are perforated with more than twenty holes and the coil spring is threaded through these holes to make a permanent binding..." [Boing Boing]
|
