The Official Stella Awards. The 2004 winner was Mrs Mary Ubaudi of Madison County, Ill.,who is suing car maker Mazda for failing ‘to provide instructions regarding the safe and proper use of a seatbelt.’ Lovely. Silly, but lovely. The Stella Awards were inspired by Stella Liebeck. In 1992, Stella, then 79, spilled a cup of McDonald’s coffee onto her lap, burning herself. A New Mexico jury awarded her $2.9 million in damages, but that’s not the whole story. Ever since, the…
Read MoreMonthly Archives: February 2005
Roll yer own recipe book.
Wikipes. A wiki for recipes. Pop on over there and add Aunt Flo’s recipe for Southern Fried Kitchen Towel, why doncha?
Read MoreeBay BBS.
Want it Now. So eBay has just introduced a bulletin board type app which lets buyers post details of things they are looking for. Sellers can then send them a link to their auction. Needs to be email driven really, but still a neat idea.
Read MoreTextAloud.
TextAloud. Kick back and hear your emails, web pages and other text spoken to you. You can also download audio of same to your iPod of other MP3 player. The voices are still a bit Star Trek though, which is a shame! $29.95. TextAloud reads text from email, web pages, reports and more, aloud on your PC. TextAloud can also save your daily reading to MP3 or Windows Media files ready for playback on your iPod, PocketPC, or even on…
Read MoreCounter Intuit-ive.
Cory over at BoingBoing points out that the folks at Intuit, makers of Quicken, have decided they can ‘retire’ software (by crippling functionality) whenever they want, in order to force people to upgrade to new versions. This is bad. Quicken products should be boycotted immediately. Pass it on. As of April 19th, 2005, in accordance with the Quicken sunset policy, Online Services1 and Live Technical Support2 will no longer be available for Quicken 2001 and 2002 users. These services include online bill…
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