Getting Ready for the iPhone 2.0

First Mike Lowell steals a cellphone, now this:

Nick Cafardo

For a senior writer at the Globe, you sure manage to anchor the Bell Curve on the weekly notes columns. Scattered amongst the feel-good crap about players he likes and the baseless trade rumors, he managed to throw in a testable hypothesis: “[Pat] Burrell always has been overpaid …

Dearest Gmail,

If you continue to swallow important information from clients inside your fancy “- Show Quoted Text -” block, we aren’t going to be friends much longer. I love how you overcome my scatterbrained nature, but when you cost me money that means I can pay for something else to …

Celtics Win + I Am An Idiot

But you knew that. One of the nice things about the Internet is the rise of what Charlie Stross calls the “lifelog”, a searchable list of everything you ever thought and did, a permanent Friend Feed. I mention this because I was so damned …

Mancrush: Woz

Man I love Steve Wozniak. Kathy Griffin lost me somewhere around her millionth plastic surgery when it became hard to look at her.

Terry Francona: Fashion Critic

“I can’t believe that ball didn’t take one look at [Orsillo’s] sport coat and take a right turn.”

Google Android Demo

Quick demo of Google’s new operating system for phones, shot by someone from the Alice Clancy School of Cinematography (i.e., you will get motion sickness). With the exception of the compass mode at the end, there’s nothing jaw-dropping. What is cool is how quickly …

Lone Watergunmen

I have a theory. A rather dangerous theory. I believe Numbers Stations (the whole Yankee Hotel Foxtrot thing) are a blind to hide how governments really do secret communication. Archie & Jughead Double Digests in the grocery store. Have you ever seen anyone buy those things? Anything else that …

For Michelle,

who wanted to know, while watching Lost, why fickleness is always presented as a “female” quality.

First she wants to get rid of it, then halfway down the page she’s amazed by it.

Joe Weider Small