Nathan Alter:

Does anybody else enjoy it when somebody does a fake review on Netflix to whine about them “getting rid of the friend feature” and you get to click that little “Not a review” button?

I believe overstock.com “fails to approve” negative reviews.  Everything gets 5 star averages.  Low ratings somehow never get approved.  Submit a negative review yourself and see if it ever actually shows up.

You can make quick mock-ups for programs and websites at gomockingbird.com.  Handy.

Why do services like Google and AOL lie about IDs being taken? You painstakingly come up with a new ID that could not possibly be in use even in an alternate universe and they STILL claim that ID is already in use. Then they helpfully recommend JohnSmith1105 instead. It’s like they couldn’t possibly allow you something easy to remember. Tacking numbers on to the end is not easy to remember. Was it JohnSmith1105 or JohnSmith1150? I wonder if they’re just holding on to each first choice ID you come up with and then suggesting these lame alternates.

Coinstar machines at Albertson’s and Smiths here in Albuquerque allow you to put in your change and get 100% back as an amazon.com code.  No 10% charge for counting the change.  Pretty good deal if you regularly shop at Amazon.  I think they also offer a code for Albertson’s.  Anyway, I took Sean there because he had a bunch of change and wanted something from Amazon that he saw on Mythbusters.  He was so excited about it that we went to the store at 11 PM.

If you see something in Facebook involving Feed Share, avoid it. You’ll accidentally spam all your friends if you click on it. I’ve received a couple of these spams…and any company that would do that might do anything with the email addresses of your friends.

Need to do a quick photoshop or drawing on a computer that has nothing installed?  No need to resort to Microsoft Paint.  Try pixlr editor.  Just go to the website and start editing the image.  Nice and straightforward.  (Requires Flash though.)

Google Chrome recently added extensions, making it usable.  Chrome is a web browser that’s supposed to be speedy with Google apps, which I use a lot.  But I wouldn’t use a web browser without adblock.  Now it’s here.  Think I’ll try it out for a few days.

Go to grooveshark.com Type a song…any song…sweet, eh?

I think that during video upload, if YouTube detects that you are a male between 13 and 18, it just automatically inserts angsty heavy metal into the video for you.  It’s the only explanation for the consistency.