sir lancelot saves a damsel in distress (a.k.a. the iphone)

lots of people have been complaining about the reception problems associated with the iphone 4’s reception. seems as though people have isolated the problem to the nifty new antenna design that sits in strips within the stainless steal phone border.  steve jobs seems to have taken the lead of bumbling bp chief tony hayward because [...]


how badly do you want a free iphone 4?

with a reported 1.7 million iphone 4 phones sold in the first three days, it’s doesn’t take a genius to starting thinking about business ideas for that customer base. one entrepreneur guy (or gal) is way ahead of the game. check out this job posting on craigslist:
“Starting an online interactive pornography firm where woman will [...]


qwerty

142 years ago this week pennsylvania native christopher sholes had his patent approved for the first  typewriter. his wasn’t the first, others can be traced back another 100 years, but it was the first commercially successful one adopted by many. to create the tool, sholes followed some key design principles to improve his product.  he [...]


there’s an app for that

by now everyone has heard that gary coleman died over the weekend. a sad sad ending for a guy with a troubled story.  the developers of android apps may have been distraught but were able to get over their grief to develop a gary coleman tribute app to pay respects to the actor (there was [...]


ready, set, go

google is celebrating the 30th anniversary of pac man.  so play, you know you want to. it’s only live for 48 hours so don’t waste it doing work.
[pc world]


slush

iron eyes cody would be balling his eyes out right now if he were around to see that mess that is the gulf of mexico.  more bad news came today that the 98 ton box with the dome on top that was lowered over one of the cracks gushing oil and polluting the gulf has [...]


social media inbox

remember when you used to write real letters home from summer camp or even college?
fast forward to the social media age where you are required to check every email account you have, your facebook updates, your twitter updates, your friends facebook and twitter updates, and and every other site you can imagine.  news came that [...]