http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/polaroid-quits-instant-film-business/20080208170209990001
i’m so upset! i love polaroid photographs! they’re so old school and cool. i actually just started looking to buy one because i’ve always wanted a polaroid camera.
this is such a great idea. people forget that along with tuition, textbooks can run you $500-$1000+ per year. i have yet to use the CD-ROMs that come with textbooks, and some professors say that an older edition is fine because the new edition is the same except for one chapter. a rental service would be great, too. there’s a couple of books that i only have to use for 2 weeks during the semester and then i don’t need it again.
plus, reselling textbooks is a bitch. you can get more money if you sell them online, but it’s just a hassle to ship them out individually. the bookstore gives you PENNIES, even if you never touched the book and it just sat on your shelf for a semester. some of my smaller paperbacks that were $12-$15 i got $2 for, then the bookstore will resell them as “used” for about $10. it’s not fair to the students, especially if the book is the newest edition and has hardly been used.
http://craigslist.org/about/best/all/
i read these when i’m bored. some of them are the funniest things i’ve ever read, and some i couldn’t understand if i tried.
http://smallbusiness.aol.com/features/vending-machine
after seeing a vending machine in san francisco that had everything from food to toothpaste to ipods, i’ve wondered where this technology was going.
here’s a photo i took of the vending machine:
http://leavemethewhite.com/caps/index.php
one of the best collections of screencaps i’ve found on the web, with a ton of high quality, wallpaper-worthy caps.
it’s about time! they’ve discovered so much about this painting in recent years, but this was the big piece missing from the puzzle.
http://typetive.com/candyblog/
i read blogs when i’m bored, and i just discovered this great one.
