June 2008
65 posts
Boutique? →
Sony CEO refers to Apple as a ‘Boutique’ company, while stating Sony is a ‘Giant Conglomerate.’
Must be some new math at play.
(via DF)
WatchHappy Birthday iPhone!
Diablo III - Officially in development →
When I sent the link to Jake (my teenage son), his comment was:
Teen drives off top of Pikes Peak; Fates say:... →
I don’t know if this goes under EPIC FAIL or Can’t Fight Fate.
At any rate, I’m now in the market for a 1985 Maxima for my son, since they’re apparently fairly well-built. ;^)
A Cure for Cancer? →
[CTV.ca | Scientists to test if cancer cure can work in humans]
Let’s cross our collective fingers that this works in humans as well as it does in mice.
TIME - Profiles in Idiocy →
TIME interviews the idiot behind the Facebook group “I Text People While Driving and I Haven’t Crashed Yet!”
Just saw WALL•E
Not surprisingly, it’s EXCELLENT.
No spoilers here, but I did want to mention a few things:
The Pixar short in front of the film is the funniest I can remember. Beautifully done.
There at least a couple of nods to Apple fans in the film. See if you can find them.
Stay to enjoy the end credits — they are a visual delight. They move the story along beyond the ending, and they do...
Enjoying a fresh, warm Chipotle burrito at my kitchen table. Before last week, this would nor have been possible. Nom!
*not, even
To the person(s) responsible for setting the...
I hope your butt grows together.
Glad I took the extra day off today . Turns out today at home with the kids was better than the last 3 “vacation” days combined.
WatchBest.
Guest Appearance.
Evar.
Back home from stressful, disappointing vacation. Good new is: lessons learned — we’ll know what & what not to do next time ‘round.
[imported from Twitter]
At the hotel — made it in one piece, thanks to caffeine, 5-hour Energy, and those Wake-The-F@ck-Up! ridges on the sides of the interstate.
About to make a 4-5 hour drive to Washington, D.C. on zero sleep. (No-Doz, be my friend today.)
~ 12:02 a.m. EDT - marble-sized hail falling in Virginia Beach, VA 23452 (Tweet)
About to prepare for a trip that I don’t want to take, where I expect to be miserable 95% of the time. I hope I’m wrong.
MagCloud →
Uh. Wow. Upload your magazine, and these guys take care of the rest. From their “About Us”:
MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
Coolbeans!
WatchHulu - Our Mrs. Reynolds: Firefly
I’m just now starting episode 6. Good stuff! ;^)
Transformers Movie Deluxe Class Bumblebee 2008... →
[My latest review on Amazon.com for a very disappointing toy]
Are kids really expected to be able to work this thing?
I had been eyeing this toy in the stores for a while for my kids (girl, 8 and boy, 5), who are huge fans of the movie, since they only have smaller (‘Hot Wheels’-sized) Transformers figures. My wife had the honor of actually purchasing it, though, and I came home...
Just now discovering ‘fIrefly’, thanks to Hulu.com. Great f’ing series! How did this ever get cancelled?! Oh, yeah — that’s right — Fox
R.I.P. Stan Winston →
[Special-Effects Pioneer Stan Winston Dies at 62 | The Underwire from Wired.com]
The first time I saw Jurassic Park in the theater, I wept in awe at the first dinosaur scene.
Talk about ‘movie magic.’ He was one of the original wizards.
...kinda like Straight Married Couples have found... →
[Gay Couples Find Marriage Is a Mixed Bag - NYTimes.com]
DOH! Had a Wii in my shopping cart on CircuitCity.com, ready for me to hit ‘buy,’ but I just couldn’t do it. (Stupid forced bundle).
Last day of school for the kids; last day for my daughter to be late…again. We’ll save the rest for 3rd grade.
'I am SICK and TIRED of these MotherF*cking SNAKES... →
[WTOL.com, Toledo’s News Leader, News 11 | Snake found coiled around baby’s leg in crib]
(via FARK)
I want to build one of these! →
[USS electric trike]
I was thinking, as I was fuming over gas prices earlier tonight, that I’d love to find a human-powered vehicle to ride to and from work regularly. In all my googling, I discovered that most enclosed pedal-powered vehicles are just recumbent bikes inside shells, so I started poking around a bit more and found this.
I’m gonna play around with some designs based...
finally watching the WWDC08 Keynote
The most bizarre death report I've ever seen →
A blurb from a Bangkok news site about a man found dead from an apparent snakebite.
That description doesn’t even begin to do the story justice, though. Just click the damn link already.
WWDC08 Keynote Bingo
ArsTechnica’s John Siracusa continues his recent keynote bingo tradition;
…or you can download a random bingo card generator application from the Swedish Bingo Team (not to be confused with the Swedish Bikini Team) on MacUpdate.
Bonus points to the ArsTechnica version for the design. I’m still kicking myself for selling that old copy of WIRED; I should’ve had it framed.
re: WWDC - is it just me, or is each major Apple event seeming much bigger/more important/more influential than the last in recent memory?
actively seeking creative inspiration.
I’ve been grooving on DEVO for a while now,...
Counterpoint
I love ya Billy, but I have to take issue with this statement:
wondersofbilly:
now I’ve seen people “editing” my reblogs if they don’t like my comments..but hey thats life, but you either support our troops and what we’re doing or you don’t. There isn’t a spilt answer here.
There is absolutely a split answer.
I support our troops. I support our men and women who serve and perform their...
If you're not going to make an informed vote,...
[Yes, this is a political rant.]
I recently observed a gem of an email circulating (which I will quote at the end of this post) which illustrates a major problem with this country.
Do you know what happens when you vote for the candidate your church (or any other group, but mainly church) tells you to? You get this:
This clown has been in the White House for 8 years because most of the voters...
Daring Fireball | What's Most Important →
Gartenberg, via Gruber, on where to place the emphasis on Monday’s pending keynote address: new iPhones or not, the important thing is that there’s a major new software platform fer chrissake!
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve thought this was clear from the outset.
I do predict a new genre of gaming that will result from the goldrush of developers to OS X iPhone: MMOiPG...
Posted new lolcat at ichc ->http://tinyurl.com/5gxv2e. Would’ve tumbld only, but since it’s down, I’m tweeting (will tumbl l8r).
tumblr’s down. EVERYBODY PANIC!
The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback... →
This is part 3 of a documentary series produced in 1992. Must-know stuff for computer history buffs.
(found via Daring Fireball)
This is just a little creepy. →
[In Pictures: Stalking The iPhone | Forbes.com]
You’d expect a little more restraint from an outfit like Forbes.