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A guy works all day, he don't want to look at his plate and ask, "What the fuck is this?" He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say "I like steak!"

Awhile ago, I noticed that Amazon has several new features:

• You can categorize items in wish lists as Must Have, Like to Have, I'm Thinking About It, and Don't Buy This for Me. This is awesome! As the kind people who give me gifts often comment (in shock), my wishlist is 8 page long with 197 items. The reason it's like that is because I use not only as a "please buy this for me" wish list, but also a personal, bookmarks type of list.

  With this new ranking, I can now mark books I'm just bookmarking for myself instead of as a gift suggestion.

• Amazon has also adopted that Netflix like rating system where you don't have to submit the page to save your rating. I didn't take the time to look at their code -- whether it's JavaScript or iframe magic -- but we're often faced with the same need at work.
• The definition of a "free prize":

  A free prize is the essence of a Purple Cow. Generally, a free prize has two key characteristics. First, it's the thing about your service, your product or your organization that's worth remarking on, something worth seeking out and buying. Second, a free prize is not about what a person needs. Instead, it satisfies our wants. It is fashionable or fun or surprising or delightful or sad. It rarely delivers more of what we were buying in the first place. It delivers something extra. Free Prize Inside

• I like all the new functionality of Blogger, even the layout (like being able to see the titles of all your posts without the contents). But, I just don't like all those rounded corners.