a prairie web companion » links http://bkim.net/blog in the city by the lake Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:16:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Links of the moment http://bkim.net/blog/2006/07/27/links-of-the-moment http://bkim.net/blog/2006/07/27/links-of-the-moment#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:29:43 +0000 bkim http://bkim.net/blog/2006/07/27/links-of-the-moment/ Verizon’s “unlimited” EVDO data plan is actually very limited. Verizon will unceremoniously terminate your account if you run afoul of the hidden limits in their “unlimiited” data plan. Verizon’s terms of service includes prohibitions for most streaming media. This is particularly appalling when you consider that Motorola demonstrated the Q running the Sling player at its launch when it had an exclusive agreement with Verizon to carry the phones. Verizon still has exclusive rights to carry the Q.

Apple has just released a bluetooth version of the Mighty Mouse. Sorry non-Mac users. It’s only available for the Mac now. For you unboxing fetishists, unboxing photos are available at Engadget.

This is an interesting Harper’s Magazine article about mail order brides and the men who seek them.

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Justice is a dish best served cold: New York Times article about a guy who helps his friend retrieve her lost Sidekick (that’s a cell phone for the uninitiated). He finds the teenage girl who “acquired” the phone. She refuses to return the phone and continues to use it as her own. The guy posts the pictures that she has taken of herself and her family, with the stolen phone, online. He gains wide support from pretty much everyone who views his website. Hilarity ensues–OK, not really. The girl gets her comeuppance, is humiliated, and eventually arrested.

Someone from NPR posted a terse response to the This American Life podcast brouhaha. There isn’t much substance to the post. It seems to have been posted more as fodder for discussion than anything else.

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