Posts tagged “iPhone”

• News & Notes
  • Couple married 72 years dies holding hands — from kottke.org
  • Jason Kottke also published an epic round-up of all the best stories, comments, obituaries, collections, videos, etc. about Steve Jobs.
  • Top Ten Misused English Words — from listverse.com
  • 4 Personal Finance Principles That Would Make Your Grandfather Proud — from The Art of Manliness
  • Stellar.io is just awesome. Seriously. Trust me on this one. (Let me know if you want an invitation.)
• Apps
  • Amazing Breaker is a fun (free) breakout game.
  • Can anyone explain the difference between the Starbucks app and the Starbucks Card Mobile app?
• Tech
  • If you have an iPhone running iOS5, open the iTunes app on your phone. Click “More” in the lower right-hand corner. Choose “Tones”. You’ll see that there is now a new section of Star Wars ringtones. (I can’t understand how this wasn’t front page news.)
  • See also: How to make custom tones for your iPhone — from macworld.com
  • If I’m going to get a MacBook Air, then it looks like I’m also going to get a new Thunderbolt display. — via Shawn Blanc
  • Incredible macro photographs taken with iPhone 4S camera — from campl.us
  • Shit Siri Says Is, indeed, quite funny. (On Sunday I was upset when Siri couldn’t connect to the Internet and was unable to tell me the distance from Key West to Cuba. When I said, “Blow me!” in frustration, she said, “David! The language!”)
• Sports
  • Quote of the day: “…it’s clear that marketing people underestimated [Tim Tebow’s] intangibles and popularity.” — Tebow’s Eye Black

• “When I see a guy alone at a café without a device open, I assume that he’s either got the iPhone antenna problem or that he’s a serial killer… I’m almost never alone with my thoughts anymore.” (from Blogging from the Shower, by Dave Pell)
• I really love these vintage social media advertisements. Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce would be proud. (See also: The Periodic Table of Mad Men)
• The last six pictures from July’s massive oil spill in China are terrifying and heartbreaking.
• It’s pretty tough to argue that Apple doesn’t do everything better and smarter than everyone else, especially when you look at how amazing they made a simple battery charger. (I want one.)
• Research proves that happiness is probably not as expensive as you thought.
• “A 95-page court ruling on a college volleyball budget sounds like a Monty Python sketch — because Title IX itself has become a Monty Python sketch… Title IX strictures that were needed a generation ago simply aren’t needed any longer. But because no government program is ever shut down, they slog on, causing asinine intrusions.”
• It’s just not a real party until one of the guests decides to start smashing watermelon fruit bowls on the heads of the dancers.
• I absolutely must get a speech bubble whiteboard lamp for my office.

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• The Banana Song will haunt your dreams.
• The photo of an iPhone 4 on the cover of the September 2010 issue of Macworld was taken with an iPhone 4.
• “He needed to know how Big Bird could possibly have arisen from evolutionary history: What are its relatives? How did it achieve such a unique bone structure? What happened to the other members of his species?” … The Taxonomy of Big Bird, Grandicrocavis Viasesamensis
  (This is the same guy who is running The Beibignorance Project, a scientific exercise to determine just how little one can possibly know about Justin Bieber.)
• There’s more to the story of how America got her name than just ol’ Americus Vespucci.
• And while we’re talking about maps… Check out this awesome map of New Jersey (larger) based on the music of Bruce Springsteen.
• Serenity Now! could be the scariest movie of the summer. The Oregon Trail is going to be the big one at the box office, though.
• The Periodic Table of Swearing is now available in color.
• “Two Michigan coffee shops have said that since throwing their employees into bikinis to serve up cups of joe, they’ve experienced a sizable jump in sales.”
• I pity those who suffer from RAS syndrome.
• It’s nice to know that according to Laver’s Law, I have always been shameless.
• “There’s an age at which it is no longer cool to have your own name and number on the back of a jersey. That age is 10.” from Sports Rule #2

• Let’s go for a swim! (Don’t forget your sunscreen!)
• A friend of mine discovered what may be the most horrifying cause of death in the history of the world.
• College football season starts in just about eight weeks. Much of it is televised. You should watch.
• Driving with His Lordship would make getting lost pretty scary.
• The Rolling Stone article concludes by declaring we have no hope of winning in Afghanistan. That is 10,000 times more important than any stupid snipe by an unnamed “aide”.
• If you have an old iPhone collecting dust, you can easily convert it into an iPod Touch. Or you could simply try to let yourself be bored.
• Did you know that an astronaut on the International Space Station was tweeting photos from space? (see also)
• You Were Doing It Wrong is the best Ask.MeFi thread ever. It should be required reading for everyone on the planet. (Second best!)

• The iPhone just keeps getting better. (I’ve had each one.)
• What Broke My Father’s Heart
• I have been in hysterics reading quotes from the fascinating lives of the people who live in my furniture catalogs… “Oh, dear. Our Q-Tip decanter is almost 1/5th depleted!”
• Lake Street Creamery. We guarantee IT WILL TURN YOU INTO A GOD.*
• The Swedish Chef cooks popcorn shrimp.
• The oil spill? “It’s heartbreakin’, baby.”
• The Who Tall Are You? mirror looks like it would be fun for a teenager’s room.
• It will probably be light years centuries before the Sci-Fi Airshow makes its way to Los Angeles, and I sadly won’t get to see it.
• Real Life vs. CSI:Miami
• Proper punctuation is important. Seriously.

• “If a boot becomes the standard choice among war correspondents, I’m thinking it’s gotta be pretty damn good.” And now there is something else I want to buy. (A vortex cannon would be cool, too.)
• “Thousands of web designers make unforgivable spelling mistakes constantly.” Learning how to spell is actually quite easy. It’s amazing how many people think it’s perfectly acceptable to not know how to do it correctly.
• Your App’s Website Sucks should be required reading for everyone that makes any website, not just for app sites.
• The CEO of Woot! sent the world’s most awesome-packed email in the history of time to his employees to announce that Amazon had purchased them.
• Regardless of what you think, login is not a verb.
• TiPb has a stunningly complete list of every feature of the new iPhone.
• EDSBS presents A Journey Through College Football Dickdom

• Starbucks To Begin Sinister ‘Phase Two’ Of Operation
• Is Schizophrenics Anonymous legitimate or some sort of sick joke?
• “You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font.”
• This week’s must-have hat is The Infidel.
• In prison Bernie Madoff doesn’t have to hide his lack of conscience.
• The Smithsonian has released a list of the ten most disturbing scientific discoveries. I only think that three of them are very disturbing. (The other seven are just kind of “meh”.)
• If you’re going to brew your own beer, you might as well have a nice label.
• The Button is probably the dumbest iPhone app ever.
• Greg Knauss knows what to do about the Gulf.
• Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam
• News flash for lottery winners: Money can’t buy happiness. (Note: I am already happy, so winning the lottery would not ruin my life. Also, I’m not a moron.)
• Are you as excited about the new iPhone as I am? (It’s not my fault that Steve keeps releasing them so close to my birthday!)

• You would think that a prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson sticker would be hard to miss, or at the very least hard to forget about and leave behind.
• The shortest possible game of Monopoly requires only four turns, nine rolls of the dice, and twenty-one seconds.
• Fuck Yeah Cats! is cute. But FUCK YEAH SHARKS is cool.
• “The economic slave never realizes he is kept in a cage going round and round basically nowhere with millions of others,” said the totalitarian Buddhist who beat SimCity3000.
• I have got to agree that putting an awesome costume on your observatory is the greatest astronomy-related college prank ever.
• Web developers should always be mindful of the commander’s intent.
• It looks like the AT&T tethering plan for the new iPhone is going to suck and be absurdly expensive. I’m shocked. Shocked.
• And, finally, I love this quote from an article about the murder of porn actor Tom Dong: “That’s why I have a gun in my office. Weird things happen all the time. We’re in the Valley.”