Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
From the Onion A.V. Club:
I love terrible late ’90s radio hits so much that I’ve compiled them all in one place, for the first time. It’s called Spectator Songs: Your Favorite Terrible Late ’90s Radio Hitz! and it’s available to anyone masochistic enough to track all the songs down.
Three of my favorite ...
Posted in Music |
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Alex King, on Twitter's downtime:
I don’t want Twitter to become a responsibility; I like having a casual relationship with it. I read tweets when I want to, and ignore things I’ve missed most of the time. I’ve already got people asking me if I get their replies or direct messages ...
Posted in Twitter, Web |
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
For anyone getting ready to switch to AT&T from another carrier for the iPhone 3G, here's a New York Times article from August 2007 about friendships breaking down after the changing of mobile providers.
“We are trying to avoid restricting customers to just people on their network,” said a Sprint spokeswoman, ...
Posted in Apple, Social |
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
A sure sign of the weakening economy, Starbucks is closing six hundred stores.
At the end of March, there were more than 16,226 Starbucks stores globally and 11,434 in the U.S.
Will we even notice the difference? (via Marston)
Posted in Business |
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
After posting the AT&T iPhone plans this morning, I started thinking about how much this would end up costing me.
Currently, my girlfriend and I are on a FamilyTalk plan with 700 shared minutes between two iPhones. The current cost for this plan is $109 per month, or about $125 after ...
Posted in Apple |
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
GateWorld reports that actor Don S. Davis, best known as General George Hammond on Stargate SG-1, has passed away.
Off-screen, Don was beloved by the show's cast and crew. He departed the show in 2003 due to a medical condition that restricted his workload, but returned for several guest appearances on SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis in ...
Posted in Sci-Fi |
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Corey Gilmore evaluates the contact pages of the two major candidates:
The most obvious reason for the differences between the two sites would be that McCain's strategy folks haven't had a hand in his contact page and it was done by web developers who don't have any vision. I assume this ...
Posted in Politics |
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Choose your poison. With the move to $30 for the data plan and the lack of included text messages, my own bill will go up by roughly $40 per month. That's $480 per year, or $960 for the life of the contract.
Dear Apple and AT&T, can we go back to ...
Posted in Apple |
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Interview with Ben Burtt -- the voice of Wall•e, and the man behind the sounds of Star Wars:
When he’s going slowly, he makes a little whirring sound and that is the sound I heard it actually in a John Wayne movie called Island in the Sky on Turner Classic Movies. ...
Posted in Movies |