Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Viral web FlareUps are entertaining to watch. This week’s FU began on Fox news. Supposed-psychologist Cooper Lawrence was being interviewed about video games, sex, and violence. She ranted on about the XBox game Mass Effect - claiming that “You’ll see full digital nudity and the ability for players to engage in graphic [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2008 by Baxter
Updated Post: There’s a nasty Amazon Phishing Scam being sent out. Be sure you don’t fall for it.
You can see what the phishing email looks like (safely) by opening this unedited image of my email inbox.
Here are some resources to fight phishing:Antiphishing.org and MS: How to recognize phishing scams and fraudulent e-mails
Update: there’s a [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Nothing says “love ya babe” more than sharing your lead isotopes! This cute little cannister is going for $23 at Amazon. The customers who bought uranium also bought the book “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design”, as well as dead rabbits, and UFO detectors!
(makes you wonder, huh?)
Over at eBay, the bidding [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Just in time for the fireplace season, Amazon introduces The Kindling…errr The Kindle . What an atrociously ugly hunk of plastic this thing is. And what’s with all those angled buttons?? Amazon is quoted as saying it’s really proud of all the innovations that went into this Kinder egg: [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2007 by Jobe Roberts
Well, it was rumoured here not very long ago by Baxter that Amazon was in the process of linking in YouTube commercials for their products. Noticed this week, is one of my favourite places to shop online, TigerDirect.ca.
They now have YouTube video commercials for some of their products such as this Pentax Camera.
We’re not [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2007 by Baxter
Rumour has it that text reviews are simply not enough any more for Amazon. “You just cannot convey in text what you can with video.” So YouTube will be hosting advertisements for Amazon products. The rumour also states that there are now over one hundred products on Amazon with video clips on their pages. Manufacturers [...]
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