OK, not really, but Canon was indeed giving out these novelty coffee mugs — in the shape of an EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens — at the Winter Olympic ’s press center, and here’s Microsoft’s Josh Weisberg (Director of Rich Media Group) showing off his swag to the whole world. Yes, we’re just a bit envious. So anyone got a spare Canon L-Series lens that we can tamper with
Hey, you love winning stuff, and we love giving it away. Joshua Topolsky recently spent part of the weekend cleaning out his office (always a fiasco), and as a result, we’ve got a huge amount of stuff to give away. So huge, in fact, that we’re not even going to tell you what you could potentially win — just that we’ve got three large and heavy boxes of stuff to give away to three lucky winners
Grrr… It’s not fair, is it?
Are your senses full with the aroma of stag parties and buffet bacon lying listless atop the flicker of a 3AM Sterno flame? No? Well, that’s because you’re not in Vegas.
If there is one near universal gripe folks have with the Kindle, it’s the DRM-laden files. It’s no wonder, then, that the thing has been a lightning rod for the “information wants to be free crowd,” almost since the beginning. Sure, we’ve seen Mobipocket , .epub, and .pdf files used on the device, but if you really want to bedevil Bezos the thing to do would be to altogether circumvent the DRM from your Amazon e-books — and it looks like an Israeli hacker named Labba has done just that.