Their recent auction announcement email caught my eye when I read this disturbing inventory item:

You read that right. A “gently used” Olympus Colonscope.

First, I hope that all colonscopes are used gently.

Second, I don’t want to be at the ghetto gastroenterologist’s office that had to buy a used colonscope. They should definitely have to have a disclaimer somewhere about that.

This is an actual auction, and you can be the proud owner of this colonscope by registering to bid at cowanalexander.com

Here’s the full list of items for sale in this auction.

There’s already a $50 bid for this like new item. Surely my nether regions deserve a more expensive camera than that!

This video pretty much sold me. I can’t believe I spent 20 minutes watching a commercial.

It seemed to have so many features that gave me that “duh, why didn’t they do this 10 years ago with cellphones”

But the one thing that stood out the most was the fact that the Apple iphone camera features are not prominently featured on the site.

It’s briefly mentioned in the video tour when they are talking about the photo gallery features, but they never show the iphone camera in action anywhere. There’s no specs (that I can find) on the camera feature and I can’t even tell if it has a video feature.

This probably means one of 2 things. Either:

The iphone camera features are super mega sucky

or

They have more hype up their sleeves.

At first I thought it was the former, but the more I think it about it, I’m guessing it’s the latter.

I was pretty surprised to see a “youtube button” on the standard iphone menu interface. That says a lot about the importance of youtube today. YouTube has a button on the most popular gadget of 2007.

It’s pretty clear that Apple and Google are pretty buddy buddy on this new toy. Google is the default search (yes, it can be changed), Google Maps is heavily featured (has its own button), Gmail is supported out of the box (along with Yahoo mail), and YouTube (owned by Google) is prominently featured.

Over 16% of all the standard buttons on the iphone are tied to Google

I’m thinking that the full coolosity behind the photo/video features of the iphone have yet to be revealed.

Wireless 1 button youtube video uploads?

What I’d really love to see:

Easy photo capture and wireless sending via Google’s HELLO instant messenger.

HELLO is easily the most underrated app out there today. It is the best instant messenger for sending photos and just plain chat. If you haven’t used HELLO, go try it today. You can send a 5MB photo to your family or business partner in seconds.

If the iPhone turns out to have those features, I’ll dump Verizon tomorrow and jump on the Apple bandwagon…early contract termination fees and all.

I wonder how many subscribers Verizon will lose to this new tech meme?

http://www.zefrank.com/punc/

We all know clients can be frustrating sometimes. This video will surely help you out

Nicely laid out, well written, and not overloaded with ads. I especially like the page on “The Golden Rule“

This post isn’t about emerging new technology, web2.0, ajax, or any of the other buzz-words-du-jour; it’s just a notice of another reincarnation of a site and newsgroup that I hold dear.

Even though the discussions have slowed, we’re still here. We’ll still be here. Why not spark the discussion.

I must have been stuck in the dark ages when it comes to photo printers. I seriously thought I would see fine lines or dot pixels when I printed out a photo from my Canon EOS 10D. The prints from this printer are professional lab quality. I held the print side-by-side from a print I got from ofoto, and I couldn’t tell the difference.

My birthday is coming up this week, and although I’ve already received a free ipod, a free ipod shuffle and a free flatscreen from GratisNetwork, I’m still hoping they’ll come through for me and deliver a free 60 GB photo ipod to my door this month. I only need a few more people to signup through my link

It’s good to see all the old “regulars” checking into the WebDiscuss newsgroup. Maybe soon we can start putting the “Discuss” back in WebDiscuss. I miss those days…

I’ve also read rave reviews about the Epson 2200 photo printer, and now I’m at a dilemma about which one to purchase for my digital prints.

This will be strictly a photo printer (I have another printer for text stuff).

Any thoughts on which one to choose?