Consumer Thoughts

Everyone’s familiar with the folder concept used by PCs… this cute little flash drive that looks like a folder just keeps the theme going. Unfortunately it’s not yet available.
via Apartment Therapy’s Home Tech

The ISP (internet service provider) Redmoon, from Texas, is a normal paid ISP – I’d like to emphasize this isn’t one of those free ISPs that makes all its money by advertising. It has implemented the dubious practice of inserting its own ads on every website. Your own website could have sloppy, irrelevant [...]

My dad’s been in the hospital with a blocked artery – nothing contagious. Today around 10am, he was moved out of ICU to a regular room, at which point he asked for some water. The nurse’s aide brought him a small pitcher full of ice water, large enough to hold 3-4 glasses’ worth [...]

I just sent this in e-mail form to the Gawker blogs which I read:
“Can you please quit linking keywords in your posts to categories or tags? Especially ones that have only one post in their category, like Consumerist’s link today to Palatine. It really feels like that IntelliTxt advertising and is very annoying. [...]

A mother in Illinois turned on her video baby monitor, and discovered that she was actually monitoring astronauts in the space station. The system shouldn’t pick up anything beyond 150 feet, let alone 150 miles! (The ISS is between 199-215 miles above Earth, according to Wikipedia. Some commenters at Consumerist speculate that the [...]

Too cute!