Amazon Tomfoolery

July 4th, 2011

tom·fool·er·y/ˌtämˈfo͞ol(ə)rē/
Noun: Foolish or silly behavior

Example: Getting caught offering different prices to new customers vs repeat customers in the past in a “test”

They seem to be doing something like it again today:

In the screenshot the left window is logged in to my account, the right is a private browser (no naughty cookies for Amazon to use to identify me), copy/pasted the URL to both sides to ensure that I’m looking at identical items on both sides.

Note the Kindle price varies from $7.99 to $6.39.

The stupidest news day of them all

April 1st, 2011

I’d like to wish everyone a happy “Don’t even bother reading any tech news” day. I admit, I used to laugh at some of the April fools press releases, and some are still worthy of a snicker. SaveIE6.com, for example, is worth a run through if you haven’t already.

But the retarded press releases? Can we all just agree those have been done to death? Pirate Bay buys eBay on eBay? Really?
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Eye to eye

January 27th, 2011

Just a couple toad shots I’ve had kicking around that I felt like posting. These are both taken with an iPhone 4 through plexiglass so the shots aren’t fantastic, but they’re interesting poses:

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