Tag Archives: consumerism

A Game Changer?

June 2, 2008 – 11:22 am

From JSharkey’s Android Scan: “Scan is an Android application that finds pricing and metadata for anything with a barcode…Just point your phone at a barcode and scan it.” What happens next is pretty damn cool, but the game changer aspect is that it shows you the price of the item as sold by various virtual [...]

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The American wedding, assessed.

May 7, 2007 – 10:25 am

From Fluid Imagination’s “I’m Glad We Eloped Department”: The American wedding, assessed.: “We succumb [to the hype of weddings] in part because the real story of a wedding—its central point—has become increasingly obscure, even as the average price of one has soared (to nearly $28,000 in 2006). Weddings today are not the life-changing (and even [...]

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Feeding the Addiction

June 29, 2005 – 08:27 pm

Sorry about not writing for a while. We’ve been pretty busy here in Chicago. Dawn’s dad got married on Friday, so we had the rehearsal dinner plus the wedding for the beginning of the weekend. Then we went to St. Louis to visit a couple of our friends for a few days. And then when [...]

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A Title Wave of Books

June 7, 2005 – 08:59 pm

Alex just posted about his compulsive book buying habits, and it made me think of all the books I’ve bought in the last few months while here in Anchorage, books I’m now going to have to ship home when I leave in nine days. When I left for Alaska back in February, I told myself [...]

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