Car rental companies have come a long way since the bad old days of rent-a-wreck. Nowadays if you pay a little extra you get to try out cars that you probably wouldn’t own, and that’s what I decided to do last weekend for a road trip.
Continue reading Adventures in Car Rental: 2007 Mercedes-Benz C280 4matic
Not great: to get to work I must catch the last bus which leaves a subway station at 9:10, or I must catch a cab which costs me over $20. Bad: the train is delayed. Worse: it’s delayed because it’s standing still in the station. Worst: it’s standing still in the station next to the one where I catch the bus while I’m getting steamed up and impatient. There’s not much I can do about the STM’s apparent inability to make the trains run on time, but I’m starting to think that maybe I should work at a place that’s a little more convenient to get to…
Burkina Faso is the new Nigeria. I’ll give you 419 good reasons to trust these guys…
Microsoft steals feature from an independent developer… then patents it. No really, this is the patent claim filed by Microsoft. As you can clearly see from the main article, Redmond is claiming to have invented this feature several months after having admitted that the feature was taken from the other developer. This means that they are out-and-out lying in their patent application. In fact some may claim that the patent application itself is fraudulent. I’m curious to see how that turns out.
How much are your Linden dollars really worth? Apparently it’s loads easier to invest in than to cash out, and your real-world profit is unlikely to beat even anemic savings account rates.
Get a first life! 3D environments, no server lag, and you can make stuff, buy stuff and open your own business… just like in Second Life! Best of all you don’t have to buy genitals from someone else before you can have sex (unless that floats your boat, then you’re free to do that too).
Japanese girls in bikinis throw cream pies at one another while riding mechanical bulls (no, really). It’s exactly the perfect mix of cute, sexy and absurd that makes me love Japanese TV!
Things my boyfriend says. Anyone who would refuse to drink Coors Light even “If you gave [him] a car made of diamonds and blowjobs all day” has to be a luminary.
Dinesh D’Souza blames America first for 9/11. He really does, and does so in a 333 page book that’s as devoid of intelligence as the decision to go to war in Iraq. I’ve read D’Souza’s stuff and he seems too intelligent to actually believe any of the crap he spouts in this frankly shitty volume, so I must conclude that he’s written this book dishonestly and with the purpose of increasing sales by creating a false ‘debate’ where none should exist… like the ‘global warming debate’ or basically anything Ann Coulter writes. Shame on him.
Cingular changes its name to at&t. This means that to have an iPhone you no longer need to be a cingular customer, but an at&t customer. Which is the same thing because it’s only a name change, but it’s supposed to inspire confidence, because really as the video explains cingular customers have been at&t customers all along. If this happened in the streets you’d call it a three-card monte or “find the red lady” and it would be highly illegal; however since it happens at the corporate level it’s called business.