Frustrated iPod owners are angry, their music taken from them by thieves Dateline caught on hidden camera.
On Dateline Wednesday, Dateline investigates if it’s possible, using some of the same high-tech capabilities that make the iPod the phenomenon it is, to track down people who take iPods that don’t belong to them.
Hot iPods: Is there a way to stop thieves cold? A Dateline hidden camera investigation.
To Catch an i-Jacker
Comments are off for this post
Natuba
One of our projects made the Houston Chronicle Blog… cool!
The last thing the online world needs is yet another social network service, but they keep right on coming. If you’ve got outposts for your life on a variety of sites, and you have friends and associates who want to see what’s up with you, then you’re sending those friends hither and yon.
Ronco Bankrupt?
Wow, I didn’t know that Mr. Ron Popeil’s products weren’t selling all that well anymore… last I heard he was worth $250million…
“… despite the loans and successor management’s continued efforts, Ronco’s revenue base had dropped too far to recover and Ronco filed for Chapter 11 in June.”
Comments are off for this post
Playing with OpenMoku at LinuxWorld
Comments are off for this post
Houston Streetviews
Awesome! Google Maps added Street views of Houston!
From TechCrunch:
Google continues to add cities to its Street View maps product that launched earlier this year. You can now view and stroll through high quality photos of most of the downtown areas of San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston and Orlando. Nine cities are now covered – click on the camera icons to dive into the city and see it.
From Houston Biz Journal:
Google Inc. has turned on the cameras in Houston.
Comments are off for this post
Mileage Runners
A pretty cool life-hack…
“Wired News has a great story today about “Mileage Runners” who tweak the airline reservation system to plot insane (and insanely cheap), multi-hop air trips that accumulate bazillions of air miles. A hacker friend of mine recently came out to me as a mileage runner, and described a system he’d worked out for gaming the reservations computers to get $400, round the world business-class fares.”
Comments are off for this post
Rent Vs Buy
More on the Rent Vs Buy Debate…. 🙂
MSN Live taking photos for local
Comments are off for this post
Home Values
I’ve seen this chart before, and its just nuts how crazy this current housing boom is…
Bottled Water
This is a pretty detailed article about the bottled water industry…
Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion. A journey into the economics–and psychology–of an unlikely business boom. And what it says about our culture of indulgence.
Comments are off for this post
Pricing
What day of the week you should buy stuff to save money…
Thanks to online coupons, price-comparison search engines and reward memberships, savvy shoppers can pay less than full price on any day that ends in “y.” But depending on what you’re planning to buy, some days of the week may yield better bargains than others.
Comments are off for this post
Generation Gap
Interesitng discussion about how weatlh is being distributed based on age groups…
The median net worth of people 55 to 64 has climbed to nearly $250,000, while it has dropped to about $50,000 for those in their late 30s
Comments are off for this post
Stopping AIDS?
A radical viewpoint on how to slow down the spread of STD’s…
It’s true: AIDS is nature’s awful retribution for our tolerance of immoderate and socially irresponsible sexual behavior. The epidemic is the price of our permissive attitudes toward monogamy, chastity, and other forms of extreme sexual conservatism.
You’ve read elsewhere about the sin of promiscuity. Let me tell you about the sin of self-restraint.
‘More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics’
Comments are off for this post
Starbucks Economics
Ever tried ordering a “short cappuccino”?
Here’s a little secret that Starbucks doesn’t want you to know: They will serve you a better, stronger cappuccino if you want one, and they will charge you less for it. Ask for it in any Starbucks and the barista will comply without batting an eye. The puzzle is to work out why.
Comments are off for this post
Déjà-vu
So it seems that déjà-vu is NOT a glitch in the matrix….
Neuroscientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the June 7 early online edition of Science that they have identified for the first time a neuronal mechanism that helps us rapidly distinguish similar, yet distinct, places. The discovery helps explain the sensation of déjà vu.
Comments are off for this post
