Archive | Consumerism

14 July 2005 ~ 1 Comment

Should You Ever Consider an Extended Warranty

You’ve made the decision and you’re ready to check out when the salesperson asks “Would you like the extended warranty with that?” Your first instinct is to say no, but the salesperson who was so helpful, suddenly begins to detail a litany of things that could go wrong with the product. You break out into [...]

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12 July 2005 ~ 3 Comments

Ride The Dragster at Cedar Point

Ride The Dragster at Cedar Point

In the time it takes to finish reading this sentence, you and 17 others could have rocketed from 0 to 120 miles per hour, turned at a 90-degree angle and headed straight to the top of a 42-story building, plummeted in a free fall, whipped through a 270-degree corkscrew and traveled almost one-half of a [...]

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05 July 2005 ~ 3 Comments

Make a Polaroid Out Of Any Image

This Plugin implements the polaroidonizerâ„¢ Script. With this script one can create images looking like polaroids by every kind of images found in the web. You can create an official mirror polaroidonizer page, where visitors can use the service provided by Polaroidonizerâ„¢. Furthermore you are able to include an polaroidonized verision of an image into [...]

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05 July 2005 ~ 0 Comments

My Review of the Sony PSP

Sony’s anticipated hand held gaming device has officially hit the shelves. However, there has been such a high demand for the units that many retailers, including online ones such as Amazon, are sold out. Despite some talk of problems with dead-pixels and button malfunctions, which some problems will always arise with mass-production, the Sony PSP [...]

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