• Pre-fetching. Scoble explains the situation well. He tracks 618 weblogs, I track 30 something. The advantage is in the pre-fetching. At home we're still suffering with bad Internet (it should be resolved soon) and everyone is complaining about it but I haven't noticed it that much since the majority of my browsing is now done from within my aggregator.
• No wasted clicks. No need to continually refresh to find out if someone has refreshed.

Drawbacks..

• Some sites don't have the full posts in their feeds meaning you have to click through.
• I find it easier to fall behind with really high traffic sites. I.e. Metafilter which I've basically stopped reading since moving to an aggregator.
• Easier to fall behind on non-RSS sites. If you don't have an RSS feed I'll probably only visit you once every few days
• Comments.. No easy way to see how many comments are attached to a post without clicking through.

7:34:48 PM   []

I checked Apple's out-of-warranty coverage and it's $255.95USD. I guess they just send you a refurbished item.

If you're interested make a bid in the comments for my 'dead' iPod [tear].
12:57:39 PM   []

The Globe's University Report Card listed medical schools at York University and the University of Waterloo among Canada's Top 10, though neither has a faculty of medicine.

The University of Waterloo's law school placed ninth, yet the southern Ontario campus does not offer a law degree.

David Plaxton, a managing partner with The Strategic Counsel, blamed the errors on overly enthusiastic undergrads who do not know much about graduate school.

10:02:26 AM   []

But in service to its mantra of delivering the lowest-cost goods to consumers, Wal-Mart has outsourced its social obligations. So have its blue-chip emulators. That's the real bargain that Wal-Mart shoppers have unwittingly bought into.

The Wal-Mart economy knows the price of everything and the value of nothing — certainly not of a well cared-for workforce, or of a full-employment economy, or of competitive marketplaces that have not yet succumbed to the predations of a single omnipotent enterprise. And who's to blame for that?

10:00:52 AM   []