June 30, 2007
iPhones iPlenty: the sell-out that wasn't
"Only Steve Jobs could get people to wait in line for something that, well, you didn't need to wait in line for."
The new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national Sunday newspaper in the U.K.
June 29, 2007
Philadelphia mayor John Street is one of the people waiting in line to buy an iPhone
Shouldn't he be at work??
June 28, 2007
Retro-looking wireless baseball scoreboard
I don't know if I'd actually buy one myself, but I would certainly like to receive it as a gift. Haha.
June 25, 2007
Image to HTML Converter
Takes any JPEG, PNG or GIF and recreates it using a HTML table with a massive grid of 1x1 colored cells. Very interesting idea.
June 21, 2007
NY Times article on the rise and fall of the Mondavi family's wine business
June 20, 2007
Desktop Tower Defense
Do not click on this link if you value your productivity.
June 18, 2007
Long profile of Steve Jobs in New York magazine
June 16, 2007
Beijing has been blocking Flickr images since early June
Rumors say it's because images of the Tiananmen massacre were posted. Here's a workaround.
June 12, 2007
Flickr now available in seven additional languages
French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.
June 11, 2007
Safari for Windows
Very smart move by Apple. Get people used to Apple's apps with iTunes and Safari and a move to the Mac becomes that much less foreign. Incidentally, I've been growing increasingly dissatisfied with Firefox, hopefully Safari turns out to be a worthy alternative.
June 10, 2007
Tuzki bunnies, the current favorite cartoon emoticons of Chinese and Taiwanese MSN users
WeirdConverter.com
Convert between completely unrelated items. One Jennifer Aniston is equal to 24.95 chickens.
June 6, 2007
Ortho-K is a non-surgical process which reshapes the cornea of the eye using contact lenses
It's a pair of hard contact lenses made up with a curvature calculated to squeeze each eye gently in the right places to correct a range of short-sighted and astigmatic prescriptions. You wear it to sleep and take it out when you wake up and you have perfect vision for the day.
June 5, 2007
Guy Kawasaki on how to build a Web 2.0 site for $12K
The logo for the 2012 Games in London is unbelievably awful
June 2, 2007
"The finale of Lost reads like a major fuck you to the sorry attempts at serialized storytelling it has inspired."
A scathing dismissal of Heroes and its fans. No question, Lost's finale kicked Heroes' ass.