July 2010
1 post
February 2010
1 post
Redbox stuff
I’m really enjoying watching this develop.
If I understand correctly, the studios want to sell DVDs to rental stores at higher prices than consumers, despite the product being identical. One reason Redbox is able to rent movies for so cheap is that they refused, and purchase DVDs at consumer prices.
Even if studios manage to stop their distributors from selling en masse to Redbox, this...
January 2010
1 post
somewhere in the iPad video: “…so now we have three phenomenal stores on the iPad.. the iTunes store, the app store, and now the bookstore.”
… each of which sells goods with zero per-unit manufacturing cost! What a wonderful business.
December 2009
3 posts
“I mentioned to Gabe that the LendMe feature didn’t extend to all books,...”
– Tycho, Penny Arcade
last.fm Most Unwanted Scrobbles →
This is a novel and absolutely hilarious use of data.
drivers who switched →
I was going to rant about this, but somebody already did it for me.
November 2009
2 posts
“I imagine that playing the game is very easy for Tony Hawk, a person who makes a...”
– Tycho, Penny Arcade
While the comic can be a bit hit-or-miss, the newsposts are frequently stellar.
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
