Viewing profile — fendmark

There were a number of smaller rental shops in the Chicago area that carried them. Family Video comes to mind. I don't believe the Blockbusters by us ever had them. I still have my…

I started collecting Laserdiscs a few years ago after having grown up with them as a kid in the 90s (we only rented them, because new laserdiscs were expensive!) - With the inflate…

When I saw Foursquare transition from a B2C to a B2B focused company that is when I finally deleted the Swarm and Fourquare Apps. I still don't fully understand their decision to s…

It would be amazing to be able to see what Grocery delivery service has the earliest delivery times open in your area, if it is even possible

We had a health scare that led us to accelerate our timeline (we had always planned to have kids). My wife and I had our first kid at 30, second at 33. The trend these days is defi…

Tripod pre-Lycos was an amazing learning space for me in the mid nineties. Domains and hosting were significantly more expensive than they are now (especially for a freshman in hig…

I have a TiVo HD with a lifetime subscription as well and they are going to have to pry it from my cold dead hands. There is nothing better I've found out there for skipping commer…

Police Quest was huge for me. As a kid it was just risque and free form enough to capture my imagination. I always loved knocking over the motorcycles out in front of the biker bar…

Not to be overly contrarian but it does seem that we are getting close to the peak for the craft beer industry. Smuttynose Brewery going up for auction is a great example of this. …

Publishers are buying traffic that is too good to be true from dubious networks and then it is being laundered through the programmatic ad tech machine at scale. Brands looking to …

This is absolutely part of the story as well. Anyone subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup lately?

RSS was strategically killed by Google, Facebook, and Twitter and the rest of the web followed. RSS was basically the open source TiVo of content distribution. Content not wrapped …

Loved Levy's book on Google, I'll definitely be picking this one up. Thanks for the reco

Such a great article. I absolutely loved all the original Sierra games. There was something magical about them and this is the best explanation of this that I've ever seen. I was 8…

Agreed. It will be very interesting to see if this deal actually happens. Only time will tell whether the leak was very clever or completely idiotic. The whole world now knows what…

The most interesting assertion in this video is that the facebook algorithm sends out user updates to a sample of their fans/subscribers and that the engagement performance within …

Interesting Yeah, Facebook's robots.txt file white-lists specific search engines and offer an option to get whitelisted ,then there is a wildcard disallow for everyone else. Of cou…

Frank Lloyd Wright is definitely a fascinating figure. I live in Oak Park, IL just a few blocks away from his home and studio; highly recommend checking it out if you are ever in C…

I also vouch for Fever. Someone on HN recommended Fever to me when Bloglines initially bit the dust a couple years ago and it meets every need I've wanted from an RSS reader and mo…

I am a Cheddar user with a free account and have to say that it really is a well designed, intuitive app. Personally, while I really like Cheddar I do not feel that it is a service…

All good points, iamben.

I think the most obnoxious thing about this post (and I saw a Wikimedia employee point this out in the comments as well) is that it completely ignores the fact that Wikipedia is bu…

Having all of these mirrors of their domain indexed certainly isn't helping W3schools from an SEO perspective. It is highly unlikely that this was done intentionally, just wildcard…