Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

These photos of are my slightly worn Seiko Men’s Arctura Kinetic Watch #SKA201 taken on a Canon S3 camera. It has a nice macro mode.

I love the idea that I won’t have to replace this watch’s batteries for many, many years.

There’s just one problem with the NYC condom program: the colors of their lettering don’t match the actual subway line colors:

The colors should actually look something more like this:

There’s no O or Y line, so I substituted the nearest I could find, the 1/2/3 for O and 7 for Y. Note how much uglier the actual real subway colors are. Makes me want to redesign all of NYC’s subway colors. Or just take them from their new condom. The old colors don’t match!

The much-hated successor of PayPerPost, ReviewMe is getting desperate, offering a 50% off coupon for any advertiser purchase:

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We’re not sure if Review ME should be considered spam or not, but the fact that it has to offer this kind of ridiculous promotion is perhaps an early indicator of a sinking ship. Something tells me that when they go, not many people will miss them.