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Apple filing places iPhone networks at restaurants, zoos, concerts
via AppleInsider by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Apple Inc.'s iPhone can already playback video, browse the Internet, and place phone calls, but a new filing by the handset maker suggests it may one day take your lunch order and serve as a tour guide at the local zoo.The concept calls for a sho...
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Chris Matthews Stumps Right-Wing Radio Host: ‘Tell Me What Chamberlain Did?’ ‘I Don’t Know’
via Think Progress by Ali on May 15, 2008
On MSNBC’s Hardball tonight, right-wing radio host Kevin James attempted to defend President Bush’s comments comparing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to Nazi appeasers because he favors talking with our enemies. James compared Obama to Neville Chamberlain, about whom James could only cry: “He’s an appeaser!” Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply explain what...
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WWDC 2008 conference schedule available
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Mat Lu on May 15, 2008
Filed under: WWDC, DeveloperApple has posted the complete conference schedule for the upcoming 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference. With a very slick web-based interface all the sessions and labs are broken down by topic (iPhone, Mac, iPhone and Mac, and IT) for each morning and afternoon of the conference (though, Apple, where are the iCal calendars?). By the looks of it, Apple seems pretty...
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Conyers: ‘Someone’s got to kick Rove’s ass.’
via Think Progress by Amanda on May 15, 2008
The Politico reports that today on the House floor, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) was overheard revealing his aggressive strategy for investigating Karl Rove: Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: “We’re closing in on Rove. Someone’s got to kick his ass.”Asked a few minutes later for a more official...
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Swiftword Plants Text in Your Memory [Mind Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 15, 2008
When you absolutely have to commit your presentation notes, interview points, or other words to memory, a Tachistoscope, which rotates images at varying speeds, can be the next best thing to a neural FireWire port. Free Windows utility Swiftscope puts that subliminal power on your desktop. Create a simple text file with the lines you need to know, open it in Swiftscope, and set the background and...
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Lawmakers Respond To Bush: ‘Bullsh*t’ And ‘Malarkey’ That Is ‘Beneath The Dignity’ Of The Oval Office
via Think Progress by Think Progress on May 15, 2008
In strong terms today, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, criticized President Bush’s remarks to the Israeli parliament that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Democrats favor a policy of appeasement toward terrorists. Biden said it was “bullsh*t” and “malarkey” for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country “and make this kind...
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Poor word choice on recruitment sign
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 14, 2008
Do any Boing Boing readers from Nashville know if this sign is real or a Photoshop job? (viaFor Your Entertainment)
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Aliph Jawbone 2
via Uncrate by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
The best noise-blocking Bluetooth headset just got better. The new Aliph Jawbone 2 ($130) is 50 percent smaller than the original, and steps up the noise elimination with DARPA-approved NoiseAssassin...Visit Uncrate for the full post.
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T. Boone Pickens Orders $2B of Wind Turbines
via Earth2Tech by Craig Rubens on May 15, 2008
T. Boone Pickens, our favorite Texas-oil-baron-turned-wind-wildcatter, has placed an order for 667 wind turbines from GE for a total cost of $2 billion. The turbines will have a generating capacity of 1,000 megawatts, enough to power 300,000 homes. The order was made through Pickens’ Mesa Power for his Pampa Wind Project in the Texas Panhandle which Pickens aims to turn into the world’s...
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Fake, Funny Poncho Ad Causes Outrage, Laughter [Controversy]
via Consumerist by Meg Marco on May 13, 2008
One person's joke is someone else's insult it seems. Reader Nate sent in a photo of a fake poncho ad that ran in the LOLCats themed issue of the Boston-area free magazine Weekly Dig. He thinks the ad is hilarious, but we found at least one complaint from a Weekly Dig reader who thought the fake ad was "misogynist" and that the "potential hilarity was ruined by bad taste and poor...
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