Author: jason
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iTalk; what’s to come?
Here’s an amazing video (via) an apple fan put together of what an apple mobile phone and iPod combination might look like. I’d probably go for something like that. Speaking of phones, it was recently re-up time from my contract. At first, I was very interested in the Sony Walkman Phone, but not enough to…
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VW ‘Safe Happens’ Commercials Work
USA Today reports (via) that the VW Safe Happens commercials (see my related post) are really paying off: Requests for brochures up 37% at call centers Requests for brochures up 56% on their website Requests for dealer quotes are up 58% I tend to agree with the quote in the article that the commercials are…
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Cool Video of the Day
Haven’t seen this one on TV yet, but here’s an Apple dealer who used $60,000 worth of iPods as dominos in a recent commercial. Via.
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Cool Video of the Day, Part II
Saw this (via My Journey to Macintosh) a while ago and it cracked me up. Add an alarm to your MacBook Pro. Turn it on and off remotely with your Apple remote. I really hope it doesn’t catch on, I hear enough car alarms sounding off all night long that nobody seems to car about…
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Cool Video of the Day
Volksbloggin had a pointer to this cool video of new beetle transformer. Ah, Autobots and Decepticons…
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Tom Petty: The Highway Companions Club
Tom Petty is doing a fan club type thing called The Highway Companions Club. Sounds very similar to Dave Matthews Band’s Warehouse. Supposedly gets you better seats, but no guarantees; probably extra true since they’re teamed up directly with TicketBastard for a promotion. I think I’ll keep that $30, thank you very much. While checking…
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Ah, Carmageddon… Good Times
Nothing beats a 3d racing game where you have three ways to win: Beat all the opponent cars. Nothing special here. Destroy all the opponent cars. Crash ’em, smash ’em, push ’em off cliffs, push them into land mines. Kill all pedestrians. Yep, give up racing completely and just run people over. Yep, that’s Carmageddon,…
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Legs Still Work
If you didn’t notice the big hole in my run log entries for the last few weeks, I’ve been a running hiatus for a few weeks while I was getting a hernia repaired. After freaking out about the operation for a few weeks, the day came and went. Its wasn’t the kind of thing I’d…
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The Rabbit is Coming Back…
VW recently announced (via) that they’re bringing back the Rabbit name for the car currently known as Golf. I’m looking to economize a bit in my next set of wheels, and enjoyed my previous Golf so much I might give another one a shot. Update- volksbloggin also says that the upcoming generation of Golf/Rabbit isn’t…
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Retrocool Website
Larry pointed me at www.theraconteurs.com… Ah, found memories of banging away on a Commodore Pet back in grade school. Cool site, and their music is pretty good too.