Jack The Scribbler

Ergonomics isn't everything: A review of the Stabilo's Move Gel Pen

Dustbuster or miniature pleasure device? It's the Stabilo's Move gelpen as shown in Stabilo's website.

THERE are two kinds of pens.

Those that look like sex toys and those that don’t.

The Stabilo’s Move gelpen—sold and displayed in select National Bookstore branches in Metro Manila—belongs—arguably—to the first category.

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How Blackberry, Twitter, and friends helped improve this website (such as it is)

You can call it crowdsourcing.

But I can’t.

Because I don’t know what that means exactly.

And second of all, it didn’t involve a crowd.

Only four people participated, if you include me and my imaginary friend, Mang Carding.

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The Zoom H1: A Review

The Zoom H1 in action.

The following review, to use the term loosely, is based on pseudo-real-world conditions; that is to say, conditions close to ideal.

The Zoom H1 was used during interviews pre-approved by the subjects in settings such as restaurants, pubs, a private office, and a jazz bar during a concert.

The most challenging field test ever confronted by my H1 involves secretly recording candid exchanges with taxi drivers. Read the rest of this entry »

See Jack fail miserably at selling web ads

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