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Amazon’s Kindle, Unfortunately Unscented

The big news is that Amazon is releasing a digital e-book reader. The world quivers with anticipation. I quiver with disinterest. I’m sure the guy that wrote the greatest letter ever is quivering with rage. I think Jeremy Toeman argues … Continue reading

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Hacking IMDb URLs

One of the stupid design flaws of The Internet Movie Database (or IMDb) is that the movie URLs only include database IDs, which leads to addresses that look like “http://imdb.com/title/tt0390384/” for a film like Primer. As a general rule for … Continue reading

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