It’s not very politically correct, but I’ve always been fascinated by dead pools. I’ve never actually participated in one, but there is something about wagering on life and death that appeals to the degenerate gambler in me. Since I’m pretty sure that participating in a dead pool is illegal in San Francisco, I suppose that [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2007 by Davis
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It’s hard to believe, but today was a bittersweet anniversary for me. Secretly, I never thought I would make it, but it was a year ago that I made my first post on DavisFreeberg.com. Before starting the site, I had been covering digital technology periodically, on Thomas Hawk’s excellent blog, but after getting a taste [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2007 by Davis
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If you click through the photo, you can use portals to see the jump in action. Last week, I was walking through the city, when I heard this strange drumbeat coming from one of the nearby blocks. It was a loud series of clacking noises followed by cheering and pandemonium. I wasn’t sure what it [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by Davis
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America’s finest news source, the Onion, took a stab at financial analysis on RadioShack’s stock and concluded that even the CEO of RadioShack can’t figure out how they are still in business. The article is packed full of gems, but here are a few of my favorite choice quotes from the piece. -””Even the name [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2007 by Davis
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I haven’t had a lot of heroes in my life, but Milton Friedman was one of them. When I first started studying economic thought, his free market principals played a huge influence in my life and it was with great sadness that I learned of his passing today. While I have no doubt that the [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2006 by Davis
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On a day where Blockbuster Video had to admit that they were forced to close 343 net stores over the last quarter, Coinstar reported their earnings and gave the investment community a very different outlook on the current state of the DVD kiosk industry. In short the DVD kiosk industry is strong. Redbox has done [...]
Posted on November 3rd, 2006 by Davis
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About 6 months ago, Byrus from the Daily Gadget, wrote a brief review of Redbox’s DVD rental machines in Colorado. Since that time, Redbox has made two major enhancements to their DVD rental program, so he went back and wrote an excellent update on his experience using the Redbox DVD machines. Over the last 9 [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Davis
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The first thing they taught me when I started taking business courses in college was that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Some may disagree with this statement, but even “free” things carries costs even if they are sometimes a bit abstract. I guess I shouldn’t have been all that suprised to [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2006 by Davis
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This is an interesting Netflix clip that I stumbled across on Google Video. It features a number of Netflix employees thanking their IT department for all of the help that they had been given. I found it interesting because it helped to put a face on some of the employees behind the company. When watching [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Davis
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Thanks to TiVo I’ve seen every single Twilight Zone episode and one of my favorites is the ubber creepy episode To Serve Man. The episode features an alien race that promises to give away technology if humans will come visit them on their home planet. At the end of the episode we learn that To [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2006 by Davis
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