Count the strips of bacon in the ad photo. I see about six vs. the two actually on the burger.

s/netword/network/

It would be pretty nice to only buy the DRM layer and the netword/sound contention layer when you really needed them.

Woot sells the v1 Sansa e200 refurbs all the time (as recently as yesterday, in fact), and with Rockbox, you have a pretty amazing player, with a microSD slot, for about $35-$50.

If only we had an entire industry devoted to supporting something sized 8.5"x11"!

s/plain site/plain sight/

Great. Another generation of slow QWERTY typists.

@37:

Wasn't Octo-Thorpe the eight-armed gold-medalist in the Sydney Olympic Games?

No Dvorak, of course.

⁂Phone
※Mac
↑Book
∀Pod
∃Tunes
␀Life
⚂Photo
☠Movie
☢Dock
☣Life
☤Oath
☥Something

My favorite prefix char, interrobang:
‽Phone
‽Mac
‽Book
‽Pod
‽Tunes
‽Life
‽Photo
‽Movie

"...saying that they're DVDs..." ?

#5: "Maybe their just trying..." ?

Illiteracy FTW!

I don't know if this has anything to do with Greyhound. I suspect if this guy was in an elevator or on a ferry the bees in his head would've still told him to look for the honey inside the person next to him.

Pigeons were brought to this country for food.

With the economy going the way it is, more people may be eating squab.

It's completely surprising that a dictatorship would result in capricious and arbitrary judgments!

"Yahoo doesn't make things worse"

There needs to be a law REQUIRING companies that end DRM support to refund their customers! This would include no longer actively supporting hardware or software to read their DRaMaged data format. I would expect this to be pretty basic consumer law. Can a company repossess a product in my home without compensation?

It's really time to stop playing defense against DRM. We need to pass laws like this, and local laws that deny police the ability to enforce copyright infringement until all violent and drug offenses (if we have to have them) are under control. We need to make sure the DHS (if we have to have them) isn't busting into apartments to stop X-Box modding, when they could be doing something more important.

Wil Shipley really dismantled the crappy "science" behind this ad campaign.

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/07/mojave-experiment-bad-science-bad.html

Ever thought of going into advertising?

This pretty much sums it up:

http://www.johnnykonline.com/files/vistacriticism.jpg

Huh. I thought Segways sucked because they were just slow scooters that you have to stand up on. Turns out it's because they aren't white or something.

EST or EDT?

The Sansa Clip is pretty nice, too. It's cheap and has a bright OLED screen. Only 1GB, though.

Another possibility: This is a prestige product, and hp is looking for a halo effect.

Reminds me of 1541 Music, which did something similar for the Commodore 64's 1541 5¼" drive.

Or "The Bioshock"...?

The Guide is better selling, though.

I'd like to see for myself if it's more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters.

QWERTY? Bah. I'll get excited when I see a Dvorak keyboard on a device, or better yet--a Dvorak-for-thumbs keyboard. ;)

I just can't stop eating ghosts...

(Can't login [Firefox 2 on Vista64] for some reason.)

"What's up with having to use a slider to zoom in the web browser? Can't you just rip off the double-tap intelligent zoom from Mobile Safari?"

Check out:
Can Apple Patent the Pinch? Experts Say It's Possible
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2008/02/multitouch_patents

Those gestures may look VERY familiar to users of the FingerWorks TouchStream keyboard, which Apple purchased--clearly to take their IP.

Actually, staring at the packaging creates two unauthorized copies. One on your retina, visible by looking at a white wall after staring at the packaging. The other, more persistently, in your memory, which means the packaging artist is cheated out of royalties each time you remember it.
When today's college kids grow up, remembering things for free, eventually there won't be any packaging art, since art can't exist without profit.

How do you square this with the Boing Boing post?
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/31/record-industry-prac.html