Recent content by TomRakewell

Armani's lines are spectacularly overpriced, their style is pretty bland and out of date, and if you want to fork over money to impress people with the name, you can just buy a suit by Vestimenta, who makes their Black Label suits anyway, for much less. Ordering suits online isn't a problem...

Wikipedia is an entertaining novelty, but it's pretty horrible when people try to pass it off as a legitimate academic source. The "neutral point of view" garbage that's central to Wikipedia's doctrine makes it difficult to take strong authoritative stances on any topic, which hinders the...

Still nothing wrong with it.

Absolutely. Gray/charcoal and brown is actually a better combination than with black; you'll find that people who are into fashion actually start to avoid black shoes et al in favor of brown.

Name 3 large scale online payment processing services off the top of your head. PayPal's existence is pretty much entirely dependent on the fact that it has no established competition in its business. Also, based on my own personal experience and the link to paypalsucks.com that another user...

Well I did mention that Lowtax (SA's owner) did have problems with them in the past. They're explained in an entry on the SA forums (which are down, so I can't find the link). I know there's a lot of overlap between AT and SA, and I'm sure someone here can explain it better than I can. The...

Just a warning for those of you considering of donating relief funds for Katrina through PayPal. SomethingAwful, whose servers were housed in New Orleans, began a large scale donation campaign for hurricane victims, collecting around $20,000 for the Red Cross in a matter of mere hours. Though...

A lot of laypeople like to toss it out like anyone can walk in and get an easy $200/night gig, but just getting your foot in the door is incredibly difficult without nepotism, breasts, or prior experience. I've spent the past few weeks hitting the pavement, trying to find connections...