Cuppabits November 27th
by WaltShopped out, are you? Yeah, me neither. I didn't start yet, although there's a growing pile of packages that are coming to our door that I'm not allowed to open. I suspect porn.
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The $100 XBOX sale at Amazon.com was apparently a success. All 1000 XBOXs offered sold in 29 seconds. [Chron.com] Other items on Amazon's sale went a bit slower. Speaking of slow, the article also mentions a few other cyber shopping sites that had traffic issues. WalMart.com, Disney and a few others.
I used to work for a couple of different online retailers and trust me, people working for the places do get upset that their infrastructure can't handle the shopping load during crunch time, because they know that the shoppers will simply go elsewhere.
Monday is supposed to be some big "Cyber Monday" when shoppers use their work computers (that have a higher speed connection to the web, don't you know) to finish their online shopping. This is a myth. It may have been partially true once, but by and large this is a falsehood now. The uptick today on online shopping sites will not all that much more - but since this IS the day all the online retailer orders start getting filled after the long weekend, the backup at the various fulfillment warehouses IS probably the biggest today.
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The big seller this year, so all the news reporters tell us breathlessly, is electronics. I fully expected a news graphic on the evening news like "SALESWATCH 2006!!" (you see, it's like "Stormwatch" but only with "sales" in the place of... aw, never mind... )
Best Buy is the overall winner, we're told, because this is the year that it's safe to buy that large oversized TV. Safe in the way that prices shouldn't fall significantly again for these items. Certainly, this will be the year that a lot of people get High Definition TV in their homes for the first time, and for the first time are greeted with how Desperate of a Housewife Teri Hatcher really looks like.
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People in North America are busy buying televisions, but in places like the United Kingdom, people pay a tax on every TV they own. What are Brits doing about it?
Watching more TV on their computers
I imagine that hiding another television "receiver" as a TV Tuner Card is illegal but probably still easy, and thus on the rise. What happens when you can receive TV programs on your cell phone?
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Speaking of Britain, the police there are branching out into Science Fiction, opening up a "Pre-Crime" Division. Tom Cruise unavailable for comment, but I just know he's guilty of something...
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I'm not a stock expert, but $500 is too much for a single share of Google Stock
UPDATE: Google stock closed down 4% today, or about $20. [Quote].
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Tonight's STUDIO 60 mentions AintItCoolNews.com as some sort of gossip revealing site. We here at Cuppacafe want to be mentioned, too. Cuppacafe can be licensed for a mention in your TV or movie production for a very small fee. We're cheap.
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Shout out to Casey, as the movie The Last Man on Earth fell out of copyright and is legal to download. [IMDB] You can also watch the movie on Google Video. The movie is based on the famous novel “I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson. The book was also remade as The Omega Man with Charleton Heston.
The concept of The Last Man on Earth, being where everyone else is a member of the undead but our hero is pretty damn depressing. Nowadays, it's more like a bad video game...
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The first real pic from the Transformers movie's CGI'd robots was circulated. [pic] and it resembles Starship Troopers way too much.
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Did the CBS network really add 200,000 viewers to David Letterman's Late Night Show by simply placing clips on YouTube??? [link] Whoa. Cheap and effective.
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The character's name will be ZARF
ZARF??!
Folks, we can't make up better shit than this.