Consumer Thoughts

Archive for August, 2007

25 Aug

Charged to ride the school bus

A Massachusetts high school is going to charge kids who ride the school bus $1 per day. Great, charge them money to come to school - that’ll improve their attitudes.
Story on Eagle Tribune

20 Aug

YouTube is for videos, not slideshows

Okay, it’s nice that you can take some pictures of your favorite actor or cartoon character, and set the pictures to music using Windows Movie Maker. What you are doing is A. creating a slideshow, not a video, B. copyright infringement, both to the song and the subject of the picture, and C. just [...]

19 Aug

A few new Threadless tees I love


18 Aug

Software awards scam

Apparently, many freeware sites give out 5-star ratings indiscriminately to junkware. Check out this article at Successful Software about the awards scam.

08 Aug

Awful ads

Check out Ads We Hate at Slate.

06 Aug

Turtle Trolley rolling suitcase

In the market for a cute and different suitcase for a kid, or yourself? Check out this Turtle Trolley, a rolling suitcase, $75 at Flight001.

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