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PayPal outlaws cash!

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Lawdy! eBay/PayPal’s latest spam e-newsletter just casually asserts that in two stages they’re going to cease supporting any payment method other than PayPal:
From 21 May you must offer PayPal on all your listings as well as currently permitted payment methods.
From 17 June you will only be able to offer PayPal on your listings and [...]

Cool new British coins

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Whelp, title says it all, really.
Royal Mint’s new coin designs.

Woot! ripped-off downunder (at least twice)

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Not really news, but I thought I might record a couple of the obvious-in-function but differently named rip-offs of the US bargain site Woot!: The similarly named Zazz! and the less catchy but more meaningfully named Catch of the Day.