Hopstretch

So was Ultima Online.

Except you can't really buy a BHSE.

This thread is for pointing and jeering. Great cover there guys, really. Genius.

Come on little bunbun, open up those peepers for the nice man...

On the Amazon/MacMillan fracas. All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend Whatever

If anything, they undersold it. Also, Scott Forstall is really scary. "Buy an iPad or I'll eat your face! It looks delicious."

Solicitor name fail.

I think the Canadian winter has gotten to Beefy.

Me opens wallet ... Big Star -- Radio City Classic Records 200g vinyl remaster.

The Don is correct.

Printed up lots of shipping labels!

Apple has competing imperatives here. They make their money selling devices, so they're usually in the biz of driving content prices down, as that makes the devices more attractive. With the iPad, though, the first order of business is to get as much content onto it as possible, hence you see them actually helping the providers fatten their margins here. As soon as the platform is fully established, that worm will turn.

Agreed. I expect we will see this price point erode very quickly.

Nah, he was just cross-eyed at the time. Oops.

Definitely the 701s. The best thing about them is how easy they are to drive.

Also , best (non) iPad report so far. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4

P-ray. Not the-Ray.

Thin Lizzy -- Jailbreak

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Royksopp -- Junior

Interesting bit of content on the ebook front. Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight - Charlie's Diary

Tears For Fears -- Songs From The Big Chair Vinyl.

And on reflection, if you are going to call yourself that, how the hell did you get away with having the bridge of your biggest hit be: "I'm going to come without waaaaarning!"

Plus the politics, leetle beet?

Cock Robin -- Cock Robin Vinyl. Everybody loves 80s power Cock.