Morton Fox
Morton Fox is our 2nd most prolific reviewer, right behind Jon Lyles
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Ninety-Nine Restaurant Service and cleanliness are great, but food portions are smaller than expected for the price. ★★★★
April 20, 2009 20:08 § -
99 Restaurant Service and cleanliness are great, but food portions are smaller than expected for the price. ★★★★
April 20, 2009 20:07 § -
Panera Bread Nice place but the food is overpriced for what you get and almost everything is a "signature" item. ★★★
April 20, 2009 20:06 § -
Rasa Sayang in Wilmington, DE Wannabe Malaysian restaurant is pricey and only has a handful of authentic items. ★★★
March 25, 2009 05:07 § -
Chipotle Decent burritos, but limited menu and pricey. ★★★★
March 25, 2009 05:04 § -
Lanzhou Handmade Noodle in Flushing, NY Inexpensive noodles, spicy soup base, but cramped area and not much room to sit. ★★★★
March 25, 2009 02:06 § -
Curry Leaves in Flushing, NY Small place but probably the best of the Malaysian restaurants in Flushing Center. ★★★★★
March 25, 2009 02:05 § -
Box 5 Buffet in Flushing, NY cheap Chinese food, although unexceptional. ★★★★
March 25, 2009 02:01 § -
Asus EeePC 1000HE Netbook that is almost as good as my laptop, especially after RAM upgrade. Keyboard is weird. ★★★★
March 25, 2009 01:59 § -
Ditto-cp Good open source clipboard manager for Windows, but a little buggy. ★★★★
March 25, 2009 01:57 § -
DropBox Great storage app. Syncs very quickly between computers. ★★★★★
March 25, 2009 01:55 § -
Autohotkey Very useful VB-like macro language for automating tasks under Windows. ★★★★★
March 25, 2009 01:55 § -
DestroyTwitter Simple client is easy to use. Works over authenticated HTTP proxy where other clients won't. ★★★★
March 25, 2009 01:53 § -
TweetDeck multi-panel view is very useful but AIR application consumes a lot of memory. ★★★★★
March 25, 2009 01:53 § -
ING Direct lower interest rate than HSBC DIrect but has useful sub-account feature. ★★★★
March 25, 2009 01:52 § -
Scott Tanis reviews other microreviewers. Jealous much? ★
March 25, 2009 01:50 § -
Chili's chicken crispers Not too bad but fattening and unexciting. ★★★
March 25, 2009 01:48 § -
Plyler's in Brookville, PA Good country-style cooking and buffet. Fairly inexpensive too. ★★★★★
July 11, 2008 01:49 § -
geosnapper.com Long-lived photomapping site. Needs makeover to improve usability. ★★★
July 11, 2008 01:48 § -
panoramio.com Good, stable photomapping site but desperately needs an API to automate uploading. ★★★
July 11, 2008 01:47 § -
plurk.com It's like Twitter on crack. The interface takes a bit of getting used to.
July 11, 2008 01:43 § -
Dropbox (getdropbox.com) Nifty online storage / mirroring software. Easy to install and use. ★★★★★
July 11, 2008 01:39 § -
Lively by Google Lots of eye candy and decent customization but not very usable for conversation. ★★★
July 11, 2008 01:38 § -
Steel City Diner Breakfast/lunch place in Pittsburgh triangle. Reasonable prices and good food. ★★★★
July 11, 2008 01:37 § -
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely entertaining read on the oddities and inconsistencies of human nature. ★★★★
July 11, 2008 01:35 § -
ProBlogger by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett compact, concise book but tells you all you need to earn money blogging. ★★★★
July 11, 2008 01:34 § -
Friendfeed.com Clean interface, usable social aggregator. Promotes conversation between intersecting groups of people.
May 16, 2008 22:31 § -
Mobs, Messiahs and Markets by Bonner & Rajiva entertaining romp through history. Pokes fun at social/political/economic movements.
May 16, 2008 22:29 § -
Dreaming in Code, by Rosenberg A fascinating but sobering look at the world of software development. ★★★★
April 29, 2008 22:59 § -
Paramus Park Mall in Paramus, NJ Still not too much of interest to me there but they've really improved the mall a lot. ★★★★
April 26, 2008 02:05 § -
tweetstats.com Produces some neat charts of your Twitter stats. May be enlightening, or not. ★★★★
April 25, 2008 06:48 § -
Greenspan's Bubbles by Fleckenstein Short book, easy reading, but provides a powerful indictment of Greenspan's incompetence. ★★★★
April 24, 2008 19:18 § -
Woot.com Deal of the Day format. Usually, the deals aren't that interesting but on occasion, they have really cheap stuff. ★★★★
April 24, 2008 19:14 § -
Duchess in Darien, CT Local CT chain. Typical American food, only a little better than fast food, but dependable. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 13:53 § -
American Steakhouse in West Haven, CT The steak is forgettable. We're really there for the fantastic salad bar! ★★★★
April 19, 2008 13:50 § -
The Number by Lee Eisenberg Worth a read. Although light on specifics, it'll make you think differently about retirement. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 13:49 § -
Livejournal An early blogging community and still one of the best, although its new owners have made some controversial change ...
April 19, 2008 05:13 § -
MySpace I fail to see the point of this social network unless you like following MySpace pages of music bands.
April 19, 2008 05:12 § -
hi5.com Pointless as a social network. I only seem to get spam friend requests there. ★
April 19, 2008 05:11 § -
TD Commerce Bank Free coin counting, bank pens that actually work, and generally good service. ★★★★★
April 19, 2008 04:44 § -
Google Reader An online feed reader that makes it easy to follow many RSS feeds. Lots of handy keyboard shortcuts. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 04:41 § -
del.icio.us An early social bookmarking website that is still pretty good. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 04:37 § -
Facebook There was a point to this social network at one time but it has long since been lost in the flood of silly FB app inv ...
April 19, 2008 04:35 § -
Designing with Web Standards by Zeldman Practical advice on designing web pages with CSS for usability and accessibility. ★★★★★
April 19, 2008 04:32 § -
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Contrarian and opinionated book that shatters the myth of the bell curve in finance. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 04:29 § -
Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb insightful book about the limits of knowledge and prediction. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 04:23 § -
HSBC Direct Is near the top in APY among online savings accounts, but user interface is not as friendly as ING Direct. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 01:56 § -
Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion by Mike Mason A gentle, readable introduction to version control and to the Subver ...
April 19, 2008 01:54 § -
Fox Bunny Funny by Andy Hartzell Wordless but highly expressive graphic novel that will make you think about our fractured soc ...
April 19, 2008 01:50 § -
The Lies About Money by Ric Edelman Useful asset allocation charts, good advice, opinionated, but makes too many references to ...
April 19, 2008 01:49 § -
Penang in Lodi, NJ Good Malaysian food in an upscale setting like a coffee house. Have to take away points for high prices, ho ...
April 19, 2008 01:38 § -
Garmin eTrex Legend HCx Pretty good GPS receiver and markedly improved over the older eTrex Legend. At under $200, it's also n ...
April 19, 2008 01:32 § -
Long John Silver's I still do like the fried fish, although the quality of the coleslaw has gone down since most of the LJS he ...
April 19, 2008 01:29 § -
Arby's I love the roast beef sandwiches, the curly fries, and their sauce selection but most of the menu items are not very ex ...
April 19, 2008 01:28 § -
Nanuet Mall Long past its heyday. Now merely a collection of unrecognizable stores. Has nothing of interest to me. ★
April 19, 2008 01:25 § -
Sentosa in Flushing, NY good (almost authentic) and inexpensive Malaysian food. ★★★★★
April 19, 2008 00:56 § -
Old Country Buffet an all-you-can-eat that has something for everyone, although food quality is only about average. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 00:54 § -
Quiznos Good subs but smaller portions and a little more pricey than competitors. ★★★
April 19, 2008 00:53 § -
Subway Generally good and healthy subs. Some stores don't take coupons from the Sunday paper. ★★★★
April 19, 2008 00:50 § -
postcrossing.com Well-run postcard exchange website and a great hobby! You'll get postcards from all over the world. ★★★★★
April 18, 2008 18:59 § -
Consumerist Useful consumer info and advocacy blog. However, commenters are often quite immature. ★★★★
April 18, 2008 17:32 § -
Gmail Although there have been glitches, conversation threads are very useful for following mailing lists. ★★★★★
April 18, 2008 17:29 § -
Servant Salamander to me, it's still the most useful lightweight Windows file manager. version 1.52 is freeware. ★★★★★
April 18, 2008 17:27 § -
Twitter.com addictive microblogging service. problems include outages, glitches, and follower spam. ★★★★
April 18, 2008 16:31 § -
MicroRevie.ws Very easy to contribute reviews via Twitter but this website doesn't have much participation yet. ★★★★
April 18, 2008 07:38 § -
43things.com A supportive community if you get into the right group goals but I'm not sure it really helps if you're not motivated
April 18, 2008 07:36 § -
Vim one of the two best programmers' text editors IMHO. Steep learning curve but worth it. ★★★★★
April 18, 2008 07:18 § -
K-Meleon Surpasses most other web browsers in configurability and scriptability but not in speed as it used to. ★★★★
April 18, 2008 07:14 § -
Mozilla Prism Not as radical a piece of software as they claim but still useful for isolating resource-intensive webapps from ...
April 18, 2008 07:13 § -
Coast to Coast AM interesting radio show for those slow nights, but some guests are of dubious quality, and some are cranks.
April 18, 2008 07:09 § -
flickr.com Good community, good API support for scripting and mashups. Pro membership could be cheaper but not too bad.
April 18, 2008 07:07 § -
Palisades Center has a few of the stores I want but unfortunately, it is quite an ugly mall. ★★★
April 18, 2008 07:05 § -
Ruby Tuesday excellent salad bar! ★★★★
April 18, 2008 07:04 §