Flickr Photoset Of The 5th Ave. Apple Store
Wowsers. Apple/Jobs appear to have thought of everthing for their new showcase store. Except fire exits. Dig that glass spiral staircase. It’s a work of art, I tells ya!
Category Observations
“Lost” Goes The “Battlestar Galactica” Route – Boo!
BSG fans are intimately familiar with the schedule that Sci Fi has chosen for that particular hit TV show – air about half the episodes in a set block of weeks, then break for a span of multiple months, then…
Digg’s, Errrm, Digs
Kevin Rose, formerly of TechTV/G4 and cofounder of digg has posted a Flickr photoset comprising a tour of digg’s new office space. *sniff* Almost makes me wish I were back at my old Internet startup. Almost.
A Course Reversal At Lehigh?
My alma mater, Lehigh University, has been creeping away from its engineering roots for years, thanks largely to the efforts of C. Montgomery BurnsGregory Farrington, the evilformer University president. Apparently, Lehigh’s board of trustees has named a successor: Alice P.…
I Guess I’m Getting A Wii, Then.
Sony held a pre-E3 press conference yesterday and announced pricing, release date and features for the PlayStation 3: initally, two models will be sold – one with a 20GB hard drive for $499 and one with a 40GB60GB hard drive…
Calm Before The Storm?
Perhaps I’ve just been out of it today, but has anyone else felt like today was just “slow”? Perhaps it’s that everyone is looking in anticipation towards E3 and the unveiling of the Wii, PS-3, etc. and Apple’s purported unveiling…
Laundry: Proper Care And Maintenance
A word to the wise: Mentholated lip balm, while soothing for sore, chapped lips, makes a very poor laundry ingredient, often leading to unsightly wax marks adorning previously-thought clean garments. The addition of lip balm to your regular laundry cycle…
Scalzi Beaten To The Punch By… Al Franken?
In the wake of the Stephen Colbert Whitehouse Correspondents dinner kerfuffle, I was cruising the Internet[s] looking for prior precedent for comedians excoriating a sitting president to his face when I stumbled across a draft version of Al Franken’s routine…
Excuses, Excuses.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece (complete with a nice roundup of clips from some misbehaving films) on the dodgy relationship Hollywood-produced movies have with technology in general and the Internet in particular. The WSJ blames several factors…
It’s So Hard To Keep These Things Straight
As is generally the case when a cabal of old guard intelligence agents and diplomats attempt to execute a bloodless coup against a sitting president, there are likely to be a series of connections between their Democrat-donating carcasses. Fortunately, a…
