I was reviewing an ebook site this week and couldn’t help but notice that vampires have taken over popular culture. Thanks to Twilight, young girls no longer dream of meeting a singing dancing Zac Efron, they dream of being bitten by an Edward Cullen. Does that seem strange to you?

All i have to say it, this can’t be good.

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A short but great video. Now I just need to apply these principles.

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A short but great video. Now I just need to apply these principles.

I don’t know how facebook “checks” to see who is updating your status. But it obviously thinks that I am a robot. Because I have to do this security check a lot. Kind of annoying.

I don’t know how facebook “checks” to see who is updating your status. But it obviously thinks that I am a robot. Because I have to do this security check a lot. Kind of annoying.

I went to Krispy Kreme this morning. The hot light was on and I wanted a free doughnut. I found this sign. It was very sad. I thought about buying a 1.99 orange juice but then realized that the price of a doughnut was only 89 cents. By then I was so distraught that I just turned around and sadly walked out. Goodbye free original glazed. How I will miss you.
 
PS I thought it was tricky how them made something as negative as “No you can’t have a free doughnut.” sound so positive. Clever.

It would seem that they are. Their president and CEO, Howard Stringer, gave an interview this month. This segment caught my eye.
“Apple’s iTunes Store uses its own proprietary DRM called FairPlay. I think this gives Sony a chance to provide something that Apple can’t. And we have to move ahead and grab that opportunity before Apple begins to provide support for other hardware and blocks us out.”

 I wonder if he has heard yet that the iTunes store moved to DRM free music in January. I may be an Apple fan but I feel that most of Sony’s products are hard to use. Sure they have a lot of great features, but they are too hard to use. They don’t seem to understand that people want to enjoy using their technology.

 Here is the link to the interview.
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20090427/169423/?P=2

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/the-konami-code-strikes-again-facebook-a…

 Facebook cheat codes. What next…

So I heard about a new book series about Nicholas Flamel. You could download a free ebook for the first book in the series from Amazon for the Kindle. But the interesting thing is I remembered that Flamel was mentioned in Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. Turns out a quick Google search showed me that he is, or was, (depending on who you ask) a real person. He supposedly came into possession of a book that allowed him to turn things into gold, and make the Elixir of Life which allowed him to live forever.

 Turns out what I thought was intellectual property theft is just smart authors taking real historical characters and using them in their stories.

I found this advertisement kind of funny. First of all, there is no yellow MacBook Air. Second there is no yellow iPhone. Third, an unlocked 16gb iPhone costs $650, not 750. And why do I need to give my home phone and date of birth for so called “shipping info” for a MacBook Air. And why would Discover Card, Netflix, and Columbia House sponsor a program to give away free laptops? The scary thing is that people do fill these things out and give all their information to the spammers and the scammers that run these things.