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Are watching old films hard to view?

Cover of "Flash Gordon - The Purple Death...
Cover via Amazon

I sometimes watch Netflix at my friends house and I have repeatedly tried to watch older films. I tried to watch one today from 1940 called Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. After five minutes I had to give up. It was just too stupid to watch.

I think that watching a movie should have a surprise in its plot. I don’t mind bad special effects, poor acting, but it absolutely has to have an interesting plot. People often complain that movies are bad, but it seems to me that movies have always been bad. No, I’m not talking about all movies, but it seems unavoidable that in entertainment at least, quality is not going to be in the majority but the minority.

So I’ve come to the conclusion that no longer will services be popular because of the number of items. The Wal-Mart approach. It will be popular because it curates things-The Apple approach. Perhaps the best thing to make customers happy is to have more intelligent recommendations, and less filler.

More reasons not to trust Yelp, RateMDs websites

Image representing Yelp as depicted in CrunchBase
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Medical Justice caught impersonating happy patients on Yelp, RateMDs. If they don’t look at the username/IP correlation they are negligent in their duties. Clearly they have a duty to protect from astroturfing like it appears Medical Justice has done. I have shared the earlier story of Medical Justice. Perhaps they should rename to Legal Shysters?

Programming for Kids – Scratch!

Scratch 1.4 — Reviews.  Programming made easy for kids.  Really a great logic builder.  When I was young I did LOGO on Apple and I would have loved to have something like this.  If your child is curious about computers they may love this.

Panera Planning To Add More Pay-What-You-Want Restaurants – The Consumerist

Panera Planning To Add More Pay-What-You-Want Restaurants – The Consumerist.  Now this is Marketing!  Imagine the word of mouth advertising they are getting.  More importantly, I bet that the customer satisfaction is in the stratosphere.  If they had the courage to do this, perhaps other restaurants would follow?

This reminds me of one restaurant where they don’t charge enough money for what they serve.  If you are in Chicago and want the best meal of your life, you should try Penang Malaysian Cuisine in Arlington Heights.  I think they undercharge and serve 5 star meals at 2 star prices.  Fantastic!

My review of everything: the HP Compaq Mini 210-1012ei (via the heavy duty cool)

So this computer doesn’t work if you are a power user. It has Windows starter edition.

My level of skill in computers generally, 1 being nothing and 10 being uber geekness: maybe a 2 and a half. Maybe. In two words: it’s nifty. It’s slightly larger than your average Bible, and shiny and sleek. Grown-up men probably shouldn’t use it, it would look weird and ridiculous. Besides, this isn’t something you buy to say “Mine is bigger” (like with Hummers and stuff), because you would be lying. Warning: For the first three days of your own … Read More

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HP Officejet Pro 8000 Wireless Printer Review

This has a mostly positive review.  Very cheap ink and better quality than the 6000.  The only downside seems to be what they called an “orangey” color in flesh tones that some people won’t mind.