links for 2005-08-12

Neat way to avoid having to adjust the time zone for your alarm clock when you’re on the road, but these days mobile phones do the same thing.

Cover art gone bad. The true story of a CD that used a big barcode to look cool on its cover, only to find out that it was a read UPC and was of another CD. Too funny.

Nick Denton sez: “I know it galls Jason Calacanis that his sites are about as memorable as Burger King franchises, and that none register among the top blogs, except Pete Rojas’s Engadget”