It’s that time again folks. It’s time to write a headline that if someone doesn’t look beyond the statement it may seem a little odd or maybe even shocking. Of course since we are concerned with Internet marketing here this is actually a story with a pleasant ending. The findings a...

1 pint = 16 fluid ounces — at least mathematically. In the ice cream world, however, there seems to be some shrinking going on. Ben & Jerry's, however, is refusing to slim down. Here's the email that announces their immunity from the dreaded Grocery Shrink Ray: One of our competitors (think fu...

With the the cost of ingredients, gas prices, and interest rates dropping, why are food manufacturers continuing to hike prices and shrink products? According to the L.A. Times, supermarkets don't know, but they're as pissed as we are. We noted in July that food prices were expected to rise. The jus...

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Former Pittsburgher and CMU professor Richard Florida, of "Rise of the Creative Class" fame, has an essay in The Atlantic titled "How the Crash Will Reshape America." He doesn't address Pittsburgh much (thus the title of the post), so I'm curious about how Pittsblog readers think that the Floridian ...

As I continue to catch up on the remaining 12 reviews from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, I must begin with a warning: these may get a little short. Length aside, I still intend to delight you with my hyperbole, rattle you with some biting commentary and hopefully get you excited about some o...

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Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie Sundancers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather (41 degrees in the afternoon) as the festival headed toward its concluding weekend. Deals. After picking up the Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow, IFC Films added another comedy to its roster, acquiring...

Windows Vista comes with its own partitioning software that can be used to partition the connected hard drives. It can be accessed by clicking on Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management. This opens a new window with the entry Disk Management under the storage entry in the left panel. ...

Urg. I want to try some Shrinky Dinks (for the first time ever, wow), but I'm looking around my kitchen for #5 or #6 plastic and I'm not finding any. I know you're supposed to look for the arrow-triangle with the number inside, but none of the plastic containers I can find have that arrow. The only ...