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When news exploded about Starbucks shutting down 600 stores in the near future, we weren’t particularly surprised. That’s because since our patronage of Starbucks some five years ago, we’ve seen a general lack of consistency in the brand. Even in the same city, albeit the considerable city of San Francisco, consistency among Starbucks stores [...]

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We bought our first Motorola bluetooth earpiece around five years ago, and after it died, we bought an H700. Selection for bluetooth earpieces wasn’t great, and everyone who used bluetooth earpieces stood behind Motorola’s quality, so we assumed that our first device dying after only a year or so of use was a fluke.
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In what should be illegal, AT&T is charging $700 for a 16GB iPhone that’s not contracted to them. Dieter Bohn pointed out at The iPhone Blog that buying a subsidized iPhone 3G at $300, then canceling service, is actually cheaper than dropping $700 outright, with the only disadvantage being a credit check and some time [...]

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We’re not sure Richard Bartle deserves two posts dedicated to him in a row, but let’s be fair this time around: the man isn’t without good ideas, even if our last post was all about how ridiculous he can sound. After all, even shooting from the hip during an interview, he ought to at least [...]

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When Richard Bartle was recently interviewed at Massively, we somewhat hoped he’d redeem himself from the hole he dug before we last commented on him. Bartle, of course, is the man who many consider to be the grandfather of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), as he’s one of the men behind legacy multi-user dungeon [...]

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