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Thanks to Boing Boing for alerting me to the upcoming Combover: The Movie. This looks hilarious! :)

I came across an interesting link on the wireless weblog: CellForCash. They make it easy for you to sell your old cell phones by sending you a postage-paid box. The few phones that I have checked only sold for slightly above $10, but since they make it so easy, I may very well take advantage of this service to get rid of my old cell phones that are gathering dust in various corners and drawers…

I came across a very nice page on RSS Readers. This looks like a very complete listing of RSS Readers, including client-side applications for various operating systems as well as web-based aggregators. Before I got into blogging (writing but even more importantly reading blogs), I never quite understood the big deal about RSS. Sure, there were some decent news sites out there (both commercial and fee-based as well as free) that offered RSS feeds, but it appeared to be over-hyped....

Bruce Tate, the author of Bitter Java and the upcoming Better, Faster, Lighter Java, published an interesting blog entry on mountain biking and J2EE. He definitely has some very good points, as J2EE has been getting more and more complex since its inception. Lightening up by using some of the simpler, often open source solutions, sounds like a very good idea to me…

Several blogs have reported that Amazon apparently added a new beta feature called Plog, which they define as a personal blog on their website. It sounds like a plog is mostly a different and slightly more up-to-date way of presenting recommendations to the user. On their website they list a few of the more popular blogs as examples, but to be honest I don’t see what their plog feature has to do with blogs....