It would appear that somebody associated with Kits/Wolf Camera thought/thinks that marketing single-use digital cameras to the rubes will make them some money. The basic idea is that one buys a digital camera from them, then returns it in exchange for a CD and prints. Considering that this sort of defeats the convenience of the digital age, we'll see how their business model works long-term. However, in the mean time, thanks to the wonderful people at Make Magazine, and the dilligent people at cexx.orgI discovered this amazing possibility: there is a way to get the pictures off the camera all by oneself. All you need is a soldering iron and an old usb cable. It sure ain't pretty:

but it takes some nice pictures:

An interesting take on Technorati and the use of tags to describe self-describing data:

...we've got the Cro-Magnon shotgun of tags. We've got nouns trotting across our page like a first-year's bad found poem. We've got a technology wide, wide open to tag spam, and one that rewards the tag-friendly early adopters instead of the insightful, analytical and creative.

• up your tags
• big bag of tags
• and on and on and on