Shoestring Theory

Currently documenting the house that is eating our lives, we will return to regularly scheduled programming in a couple of more months

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For Sale: One HD DVD corpse

February 17th, 2008 No Comments

Blu-ray wins the format war. Editor’s note: For Sale is a regular feature highlighting what the auction traffic is like on eBay in relation to particular events. This decade’s format war has concluded, with Wal-Mart and Netflix firing the last shots into a staggering HD DVD. Reuters (based on a Japanese news source) has reported […]

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For Sale: Valentine’s Day, aka “Put-a-price-tag-on-your-love day”

February 14th, 2008 1 Comment

Editor’s note: For Sale is a regular feature highlighting what the auction traffic is like on eBay in relation to particular events. During Valentine’s Day parties as a kid, I remember getting little handmade cards with those hard heart candies glued/stuck to them. We all got those, right? But for the life of me, I […]

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For Sale: Super Tuesday or, “So I guess the primaries just don’t sell so well…”

February 5th, 2008 3 Comments

Editor’s note: For Sale will be a regular feature highlighting what the auction traffic is like on eBay in relation to particular events. Every Super Tuesday, pundits and politicians stick their heads out of their holes to predict whether we’ll have four more years of partisan bickering or….four more years of partisan bickering. Always a […]

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