"My mother is insane. Like, one of those ladies you see on the local news insane. Since it's inevitably going to come up I'll get out of the way that I am too, but at least I take a full dose of my medication."

Zero calorie, zero fat, vegetarian, kosher salt... that just happens to make everything taste like bacon.

The only place to buy cables, period.

If this thing actually works, it is my dream product. If I were made of money, I would buy two. My cellphone reception is horrible (with ANY phone, not just my iPhone), both at work and at home. I've spent the last 45 minutes at work trying to get a signal.

In which a 71-year-old man attacks an 80-year-old man with a pricegun at Wal-Mart.

The Amazon MP3 store might be the first real, serious competitor to the iTunes Store - it's DRM free, encoded at a higher bitrate, AND has variable pricing that starts LOWER than the iTMS. Hmmmmmm.

$60 will soon net you 750 milliliters of the first legal American absinthe (i.e. not imported from elsewhere, or smuggled in). Pricy. Wonder if it's worth it.

"Today I stopped by the local electronics store to look at microphones and headphones. I didn’t intend to buy anything, but after a half hour browsing I found myself in line holding $170 of gadgets." This isn't my biggest problem, but it's one of them.

ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?! ANY

"What would you say if I told you that I filled my entire living room with completely original works of art for less than $300?"

"If a retailer offers a price guarantee but doesn't tell customers about it, does the price guarantee exist? Only for the few who hear about it somewhere else."

Requires free IBM Developerworks registration. Emphasizes use of REST over SOAP, making it a rarity among AWS tutorials. Man, I hate SOAP.

ECS 4.0 developer's guide

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