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Comment The Story of Stuff (Score 1) 199

"From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever."

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Comment Re:Huh. (Score 1) 148

It's hugely positive for the business types who keep pushing micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure.

IMO, micropayments have failed thus far due to the lack of a trusted micropayment aggregator. Perhaps Apple/iPhone is that trusted aggregator.

Note: I do not own an iPhone. :-)

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 623

> I'd gladly pay double (and generally do!) to ski Deer Valley than most crowded places in Colorado.

You've got to quit skiing Summit County and Vail if you want to avoid the crowds on the hills in Colorado. [I skied Mary Jane yesterday and only about every fourth chair had butts in it ... at most!]

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Submission + - World Series Ticket Sales Crash Servers

zummit writes: It appears the Colorado Rockies didn't plan very well for the onslaught of fans wanting tickets to their first trip to the World Series. As this Denver Post article states, Planning could've prevented ticket 'pileup'. The Rockies claim a "malicious, external attack" on the ticket sales system. In addition to the system crash, the Rockies appeared to have blocked some users from accessing the site, due to suspicious activity. The team probably determined that sort of behavior by tracking the number of attempts purchasers made from a single Internet address. Of course, this disssapointed many fans — Fuming fans strike out. The online ticket provider to the Rockies is a company called Paciolan and Netcraft's latest report shows their corporate site was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 when last queried at 22-Oct-2007, but attempts to query their ticketing servers — evenue.net yield no success. Will things go better for the Rockies today at noon when tickets go onsale again or will they again experience the slashdot effect, thus leaving thousands of baseball fans wondering how they can get tickets? Of course, if YOU can get tickets, I'll be more than happy to pay face value. ;-)

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