hip news: BookMooch- August 15, 2006 Okay, I'm liking BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books much better than BookCrossing so far. The local community and "random acts of kindness" aspects of BookCrossing are pretty appealing, but it's hard to feel part of a Whuffie economy when you never find any books for yourself and no one finds the books you leave out (or at least they don't visit the website to update the tracking if they do find one).By contrast, I joined BookMooch last week, and today received my first book, with.http://www.hipsmart.com/2006_08_01_old.php#115567242822431311 loveable losers: Cubs Anti-Magic Number- August 15, 2006 Two things: check out Cubs Anti-Magic Number, a site I just created to track how long it will be until the Cubs are eliminated from the playoffs; and, if you dig it, why not digg itread more digg storyhttp://www.hipsmart.com/2006_08_01_old.php#115566787754013352 hips news: hanes "shot blocker" commercial- August 15, 2006 Why is Michael Jordan being so mean to Kevin Bacon And isn't that totally goal tendinghttp://www.hipsmart.com/2006_08_01_old.php#115565211832870583 smart news: grumpy vikings get it wrong- August 3, 2006 This Business Week story, "Apple defends iTunes-iPod compatibility," details the efforts of the Scandanavian countries to force Apple to allow music files purchased from the iTunes Music Store to play on third-party devices. Huh Do we complain that Gillette's Mach 3 razor blades only fit in Gillette's Mach 3 razor How about this: I'm pissed that other online music stores sell crappy wma files that won't go on my iPod.Good grief, I feel awful this morning.read more digg storyhttp://www.hipsmart.com/2006_08_01_old.php#115462157620566228 |