06.27.06
Posted in Daily life at 3:14 pm by LeisureGuy
I saw one of their trucks today: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Good marketing: company name easy to remember, is the same as the phone number, builds on existing customer awareness (the “Got Milk?” campaign), provides the Web address: www.1800gotjunk.com. And a useful service. Wish I had known about them when I had to take my old TV to the dump, which gave me a back spasm. And they look professional, so that one is less worried about how they operate. (E.g., the truck I saw was clean, newly painted, and the load was covered with a blue tarp.)
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Posted in Skype, Techie toys at 12:39 pm by LeisureGuy
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Posted in Books at 11:18 am by LeisureGuy
This is cool, via Boing Boing: an on-line library catalog service. You can pick up the catalog information (including cover art along with usual info) just by entering the book’s ISBN, author name, or book title.
As a WSJ article points out, confidentiality is the rule: you create a username and password, and you’re off and running. It’s free up to 200 titles, and after that it’s $25 for a lifetime of use. And there are other benefits:
LibraryThing developed socially as inevitable similarities cropped up in users’ collections. Those overlaps, combined with a search algorithm crafted by Mr. Spalding, spawned LibraryThing’s own book-recommendation engine, which can generate dozens of undiscovered titles for a member’s consideration. Readers who own Harry Potter titles, for instance, might be advised to try the works of Madeleine L’Engle, author of “A Wrinkle in Time.”
You can give it a go now: LibraryThing.com
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