Entries for Wednesday, April 18, 2007
➠ April 18, 2007
Public safety hang-ups - The Boston Globe
The Scottsdale, AZ police department is running recruiting ads in the mens room at Fenway Park. I saw one last week, but really didn’t think it was an appropriate time to whip out my cellphone and take a photo.
Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension)
Bunch of handy GMail Greasemonkey scripts bundled up into one tasty Firefox extension.
Format War Soliders: Sync'd HD-DVD Purchase by Fanboys Spike Amazon Rank, Blu-Rayers Set To Retaliate - Gizmodo
A couple of hundred HD-DVD fanboys did an organized reverse-boycott, all purchasing HD-DVD discs on Amazon on the same day to try and prove… something. Not quite sure what. Really it emphasizes how lousy both formats are doing that a sales graph can be moved so dramatically by a few hundred customers.