Let’s say you have an Amazon wishlist that you’d like to syndicate onto your blog. While Amazon does provide some widgets for this, none of them are as simple as just giving you an RSS feed you can format yourself. With that in mind, I went digging for a solution and found a few options [...]
This Target story keeps moving along. Latest stop: the business section of the NY Times along with a second page for discussion. That’s the first time the NY Times business section has used the word “crotch” in 2008. They used it only once in 2007 and 3 times in 2006.
The Minneapolis StarTribune is my favorite Minnesota newspaper and also my favorite newspaper to hate to love. Why? Because they keep screwing The Deets’s readers by breaking links. How so? I recently installed a plugin on The Deets that reports links within posts that no longer work. What did it find? The StarTribune has created [...]
Party Foul at McMahon’s Pub, originally uploaded by edkohler. This guy, who will remain nameless (the crappy camera phone helps protect him too), made a major party foul. While the band was playing, he attempted to throw money into the juke box. Bad move. Luckily, the juke box denied him.
I’m having a hard time getting worked up about digital watermarking. The most annoying thing about music with DRM “protection” was that it made it tougher to play on the device of your choice. With watermarking, a song purchased from iTunes, for example, could have your email address embedded in the file, so if the [...]
Wreaths on Car Grills in Late January?, originally uploaded by edkohler. I’m not judging whether wreaths on car grills are tacky or not. But I am saying that wreaths on car grills in late January is sadder than leaving Christmas lights on your house all year. Someone ought to leave this person a passive aggressive [...]
I haven’t helped myself to any of that “old country” flavor in years, so I guess I’m partly responsible for this: Economy taking a toll on restaurants, too Among the first to feel the impact, analysts say, are restaurants that cater to lower to middle income customers. Just this week, Eagan-based Buffets Inc. filed for [...]
Graeme Thickens has compiled an exhaustive list of every company that’s scheduled to present at DEMO 2008 with links to the company sites (which may or may not have much to say yet). There are tons of interesting new companies with products that may or may not have seen the public eye yet. One that [...]
This sounds like good clean fun: A drunken spelling bee Oh, this is pure genius. On Feb. 2, the 331 Club in northeast Minneapolis will host the 1st Annual Drunken Spelling Bee. Yes, you heard it right, and yes, you are just as excited as I am. The competition will feature themed spelling rounds that [...]
It’s on now. In between posts on “Why You Can’t Argue with a Liberal” and “Blowing up Satellites” Captain Capitalism decided to go after cats and the women who love them: Cats are Not a Substitute for a Boyfriend. Please don’t shoot the messenger. I report. You decide. Swoosh.
