Rumor has it that later today Apple will be announcing their TiSP-compatible media player: the iPoop.

I've used WordWeb compulsively for years and just began using Mobysaurus: http://www.mobysaurus.com/. It's a nice bonus that they play well together. A couple of clicks on the menu or a hot-key combination finds the WordWeb definitions of the word showing in Mobysaurus.

Oops. I should have added to my preceding comment that that I mentioned in the same 2 Jan 2006 email that I had already used [Refundplease.com] successfully, nabbing a $10 refund from Amazon.

Outtacontext is correct. I sent an email to a few buddies on 2 Jan 2006 about Amazon's price guarantee and [Refund.com] crediting Lifehacker for the info. Incidentally, I also see that Slate published an article on on 3 Jan 2007 about Amazon's Secret Price Guarantee only a year after the same secret was described…

I've used Rhapsody & Yahoo. When they're good they're very good; when they're bad, ... Well, I use emusic now. My biggest problem with the subscription services was that unannounced changes in their formats would cause licensing to fail; I never received more than cursor, canned suggestions from support.

While their end products are perhaps less artistic than the 3-D models, the instructions at http://www.extremepumpkins.com/howtotips.html seem a better fit with my skill range, and the results are impressively gory.

While this New Yorker article is ostensibly about making investment decisions, it offers insight into the process of decision-making in general and especially decisions that may be self-defeating: "Mind Games" by John Cassidy New Yorker 2006-09-18 (subtitled, What neuroeconomics tells us about money and the brain) is…

I can only add that profitability in a business venture with friends is no protection against strife. The problem just shifts from who screwed up to who is really responsible for the success. In either case, it's incredibly easy for all parties concerned to feel cheated.

Waiting, waiting, waiting, ...

My work became instantly easier to organize (and time consuming point, click, and oops errors were decreased by half) the moment I hooked up my second screen. There was a lesser but still significant improvement when I upgraded to larger screens.