I think that the new iPods look great, but that the best news out of Apple today was the price reduction on the classic AppleTV devices… only $149 while supplies last… Classic AppleTV (160GB) The new AppleTV also looks pretty cool, and at $99 it will likely be a market success, but it does not […]
Tagged Apple, AppleTV, media centerThere is a whole lot of hoopla about a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan dominating the news, the blogs, and the political zeitgeist of America for several weeks now. One of my friends aptly calls the whole fiasco horseshit… and he’s correct… but I think it is manufactured horseshit. I don’t think people are […]
Tagged church & state, election 2010, intolerance, Politics, ReligionThe deliberate misrepresentation of data to manipulate it’s viewers: Media Matters “Worst chart I’ve seen all day” The Republicans have Fox and the Soviets have Pravda.
For many months now you could find your iPhone if you had a MobileMe account, useful for finding a misplaced item. You can even remotely wipe your data if you think your phone fell into the wrong hands. Apple has graciously made it possible to do from anyone else’s iPhone or iPad (and probably iPod […]
This may be the best bit of journalism publish in the United States in two decades… excellent and valid criticism of our president and the corrupting power of giant multi-national corporations. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0 Hat tip to “The Richmonder” on Blue Virginia for pointing the excellent article out. http://www.bluevirginia.us/diary/844/required-reading-the-spill-the-scandal-and-the-president
I think John Gruber has an excellent analysis up of the new pricing plans coming out of AT&T. http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/good_and_bad_regarding_att_data_plans AT&T’s decision to charge more for tethering without giving more bandwidth is unsustainable and it should be called a “$20 bullshit fee” just as Gruber suggests. The market will demand a fix to the $20 bullshit […]
I confess I am a bit jealous that the United Kingdom enjoys a Conservative Party that is willing to accept modern realities and even compromise with moderates on important national issues. I am not a huge fan of the Tories, but they can at least be reasonable and be reasoned with. What went wrong in […]
I think Andrei Codrescu has a really good take on the recent insanity from Arizona in immigration: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126480169&ft=1&f=1057 Thanks Andrei for keeping things in perspective.
Clifton, Herndon, Vienna, and apparently Falls Church all have town elections tomorrow, May 4th. Remember to vote if you can.
It is Spring, and therefore a really good time to review your tornado response drills with your family. This weekend’s weather forecast for most of the Mississippi and Ohio river watershed areas (huge part of the United States) calls for severe storms with a counter-rotating wind pattern that looks a lot like the historic one […]
