Shuttle Chips Shipped — Cheap!

When the Space Shuttle Discovery glided home a few days ago, one of the electronic components which made it possible was the humble Intel 8086 processor . Some...

Green Bay

In an excellent post about Meg Whitman’s retirement , David Galbraith succinctly summarizes the most important thing about eBay’s potential: Ebay is all about...

The Flip 2K5

Or, “Yahoo bought everyone on my buddy list, and all I got was this t-shirt”. Following up on the discussion about Web 2.0 from last week, the only thing as...

The eBay eConomy is eDiculous

I’ts a BLOG revolution ! For, uh, a mere $3000.

eBay Pulse

eBay’s just launched eBay Pulse , kinda similar to Google’s Zeitgeist, but listing what particular kinds of crap eBay buyers are inflicting on their loved ones...

Buy my crap

If you want to own a piece of history, you can buy my old laptops that I reviewed on my blog and featured in a story in Business 2.0 ! Okay, it’s just my old...

Wither Passport?

Microsoft hasn’t talked much about Passport lately, but Monster.com sent out an email last week saying that they were discontinuing the option to sign in using...

Cringley on eBay

Robert X. Cringely takes my assessment of eBay one step further and places the company at three times AOL/TW’s size, in terms of economic impact.

AOL-TW billing system

Dear whomever replaces Bob Pittman: Please know, one of your biggest competitors now is eBay, especially with the purchase of PayPal. They now have a billing...

jish's naughty auction

So I was checking in on Jish yesterday and I noticed he had put up a couple of items for auction on eBay . But one of the items in particular caught my eye, as...

I'm a big fan of

I’m a big fan of Negativland . I want this CD .

Ah, yes, I can now

Ah, yes, I can now pat myself on the back for my prescience. My Fadmaker mentions the Beat It jacket, and now from News of the Weird comes this item: Among the...