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Wish Lists on Amazon have always been a popular feature. They let you show to everyone else things they should buy you from Amazon. The new twist is the Universal list where you can add anything from any site to your wish list. I definitely like to see my employer heading in a more “open to the rest of the Web” direction with its features.

All you have to do is drag the bookmark button to your toolbar and use it to add entries to your wish list whenever you find a product you want on the web. I’ve added one for a new Lenovo tablet laptop on my wishlist.

Get the Universal Wish List. Apologies for the advertisement, I really like the new feature though. And I’m sure one of you can find a completely inappropriate use for it.

From a review of the new 3g iPhone:

More important, in daily use, I found the battery indicator on the new 3G model slipping below 20% by early afternoon or midafternoon on some days, and it entirely ran out of juice on one day. I overcame this problem by learning to use Wi-Fi instead of 3G whenever possible, turning down the screen brightness and even turning off 3G altogether, which the phone permits.

It always amazes me when you give someone the shiniest new tool on the block how they will self-train around major annoyances. Your power source should be the one thing that you shouldn’t have to worry about; power is a major concern when it’s the foundation of electricity and your new shiny device’s operation. Not that this device doesn’t work better than any of the other devices when it’s powered, but to put it bluntly, you sound silly saying you learned how to manually manage the power of your 200 dollar “high tech” device.

People of the Earth, you really aren’t cool.

I’ve gotten my Turkey trip photos uploaded to Flickr. There are close to 200 photos so it might take some time to look through all of them but I recommend using the photo album feature with caption info. Let me know what you think here or on Flickr!

I was searching on amazonmp3 for Econochrist songs, because everyone knows how much I love Econochrist, and I happened upon a multidisc album called Towncraft (Notes from a Local Scene) which looks like it has Soophie Nun Squad on the cover. It looks to be the soundtrack for a movie (likely about Little Rock AR), anyone heard of this? I’ll see what I find out.

Ed: Ope, here we are.

From the 2008-2009 New York State Senate Budget Report:
“The Senate rejects the Executive’s proposal to create a new tax on illegal drugs. ($13 million)”

If someone has figured out how to tax illegal substances, I, for one, would like to know this ingenious plan.

Also, “The Senate rejects the Executive’s proposal to increase the tax on flavored malt beverages. ($15 million)”

Close call! Mike’s Hard Lemonade prices would have skyrocketed and there goes my wine cooler weekends in NYC.

A comment posted by Daniel: “I couldn’t understand some parts of this article ‘07 Cooking Series: Get Your Hands Off My Tortilla, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.”

Robots are so cool like that.

This story comes from the hospital next door to my apartment. It’s the leading trauma and knife wound center in the Northwest. Lucky me.

…The Chapel of Love!

Well golly, this place looks different. 4 dudes of the 404 dot org are moving their stuff over to a new server so a few things on this blog will be missing for a few days.