Sorry, I'm in pain, I'm laughing far, far too hard. Bell doing something positive for consumers, oh stop, please, it hurts! About the only nice thing Bell would do for customers is to provide lube to ease the penetration they usually inflict on users.

The URL you want is: http://www.bn.com/borders which redirects to: http://ebm.cheetahmail.com/r/regf2?a=0&aid=266639891&n=100
Full text of the aforementioned email from B&N below.


Dear Borders Customer,

My name is William Lynch, CEO of Barnes & Noble, and I'm writing to you today on behalf of the entire B&N team to make you aware of important information regarding your Borders account.

First of all let me say Barnes & Noble uniquely appreciates the importance bookstores play within local communities, and we're very sorry your Borders store closed.

As part of Borders ceasing operations, we acquired some of its assets including Borders brand trademarks and their customer list. The subject matter of your DVD and other video purchases will be part of the transferred information. The federal bankruptcy court approved this sale on September 26, 2011.

Our intent in buying the Borders customer list is simply to try and earn your business. The majority of our stores are within close proximity to former Borders store locations, and for those that aren't, we offer our award- winning NOOK digital reading devices that provide a bookstore in your pocket. We are readers like you, and hope that through our stores, NOOK devices, and our bn.com online bookstore we can win your trust and provide you with a place to read and shop.

It's important for you to understand however you have the absolute right to opt-out of having your customer data transferred to Barnes & Noble. If you would like to opt-out, we will ensure all your data we receive from Borders is disposed of in a secure and confidential manner. Please visit www.bn.com/borders before October 15, 2011 to do so.

Should you choose not to opt-out by October 15, 2011, be assured your information will be covered under the Barnes & Noble privacy policy, which can be accessed at www.bn.com/privacy. B&N will maintain any of your data according to this policy and our strict privacy standards.

At Barnes & Noble we share your love of books — whatever shape they take. We also take our responsibility to service communities by providing a local bookstore very seriously. In the coming weeks, assuming you don't opt-out, you'll be hearing from us with some offers to encourage you to shop our stores and try our NOOK products. We hope you'll give us a chance to be your bookstore.

I have a Garmin GPSmap 76CSx, purchased it a year or so to aid with sailing as I liked the blue chat maps. It's a great device, waterproof, mapping is good, ease of use is good. I also use it on land as well.

I've also got an iPhone 3GS and the GPS is pretty good, but if you don't have internet access then lookups on things are not going to work, and with a dedicated GPS that has the mapset installed on it, that's not a real big problem - of course items not being totally up to date could be an issue.

If Garmin decided to have an iPhone viewer and enabled me to use my existing maps then I would seriously consider ditching my 76CSx. Of course a waterproof case for the iPhone would be required as well, but that is probably available.

I am going to look at Navionics as I believe they do have an iPhone viewer app, and they also do marine mapping, so perhaps switching to a different map provider may be an option to go totally iPhone.

One wonders if they'll have hand gestures in the next revision. The "Find Porn" one could simply be the use of the "wanker" hand gesture, which is most appropriate. :D

"...stroke the epeen"? Is that similar to spanking the monkey?

Don't forget... Don't move your offices to from Ireland to another country whose taxation rate is low/none-existent to save yourself money. Unless of course the savings made by doing this are going to all those poor, starving types you always wail on about. The day you give up all your money, property and worldly belongings and donate the proceeds to these starving masses, and then you live in a box on a street, better still, sod off over to africa to live, is the day I'll pay strict attention to the cause.