• Once More? / Shop: Testing Amazon’s aStores thingy. Pure weirdness, but I can see how it might be useful to some people. I think a blog format would be better, but when your favorite tool is a hammer, everything kinda looks like a nail.
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I received the free offer for Amazon Prime again this year, so I’m using it. (Boy howdy am I using it.) Noticed though, not for the first time, that it’s pretty hard to use with so many third-party sellers hooked into Amazon — Prime won’t save you any shipping costs with them. Worse, some categories give you the option to filter by who is actually selling the item, but other categories inexplicably do not. The filtering functionality is still there, it’s just not exposed.

That was the problem. This is the solution: Amazon Only Items. Use that bookmark on any list of products on Amazon, even on searches, and it will filter out any items not sold directly by Amazon. This is useful even if you don’t have Prime, as it lets you see only items which are eligible for the $25-order-free-shipping thing. Glee! Now I can spend even more money and see my surly UPS man more often…

• Rep. McKinney Files Articles of Impeachment: Rep. Cynthia McKinney, recently ousted Democrat from Georgia’s 4th and one of my personal heroes, has never made a big secret of the fact that she’d like to see Bush in jail. It’s a shame she got voted out, she’s crazy as hell, but she’s usually right.
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• WORLD MAP - countries of the world: Identify the countries of the world in a timed game. I scored a dismal 69.
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