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How to buy nothing and What not to buy first-hand (like books, CDs, and cars)

Netflix doesn’t charge you if you lose DVDs in the mail. Nice of them. The only way I see it work is if they have the right to copy a DVD if they lose it in transit. Do they?

Now, Google search history lets you tag and bookmark.

Lal Bihar formed a society of dead people. In 2003, he won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize.

… to prove that he was living sought arrest, tried to run for parliament, kidnapped the son of the uncle who had stolen his property, threatened murder, insulted judges, threw leaflets listing his complaints at legislators in the state assembly and demanded a widow’s pension for his wife.

What Teens Want. From a session at Web2.0.

The big laugh line of the session was when Safa asked them how they’d go about researching information on a CD player they might want to buy. They looked at him in silent puzzlement, as if to say, “why would we buy a CD player?”

How to convert a black & white photo into colour using Photoshop. The result looks remarkably good.

Google Reader. Gmail principles applied to RSS. You can subscribe to posts, label feeds and star RSS items. The reader suggests items from your subscriptions based on your interest.

twofifty.org lets you track which movies from the IMDb top 250 you’ve seen. My twofifty.org list has 71/250 crossed off.

The Google Admin Console. Wonder what you can do if you have the password to this. More Google subdomains.

The next geek dinner is with Tim O’Reilly. Have to attend!