Engadget is a great site - really, they’ve got a constant stream of interesting stuff. However, they’ve got this annoying habit.  It’s called self-linkification.

This irritating habit shows up far too often.  Here’s an annotated screenshot from a recent Engadget post about the Optumus 103 Keyboard.

Excuse the cruddy screenshot - my MS Paint skills leave something to be desired. Like, say, a decent photo editing app.  Despite the quality of the screenshot, I think the annotations show what I’m talking about pretty well.

The two links in this Engadget post, point back to Engadget. Not that this is necessarily wrong, but when they don’t point to an actual article, but instead are (basically) “Related Stories” links, it gets f’ing annoying.  The actual story behind the post, is hidden, right down at the bottom of the page.

If you’re going to have a “Related Links” option, put it at the bottom. If you simply want to provide tagging, then just add tags. Heck, they’ve got them up the top as “Filed Under”.

I had seen some video clips by “Midnight Juggernauts” on Rage and JTV fairly regularly, and decided to grab their album.

Well, turns out they don’t have a full album yet - just a 6 track EP. One major chain were charging $14.95 for it. A little bit of searching later, and I found that the label they’re signed to - Intertia - have some smart people working for them.

Not only are Inertia selling the EP cheaper ($11.95), but you can buy individual mp3s (encoded at 320Kbps, no less) for $1.69 each. No DRM restrictions, just regular MP3s, at a high quality. 

It works out (slightly) cheaper for me - plus, I can get the music now. Very very nice setup, folks.

PS: Create a (free) account before March 31st and get one free download.