Something Shiny

Just saw “500 Days of Summer” and strongly recommend it for everyone.

Here are some random links that came up on July 24th that didn’t quite merit their own post:

• Tom Hanks trash can – Boing Boing Just click through, it's worth it.
• TG Daily – Wal-Mart offers $298 laptop We've seen this price before, but this includes 3GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. Expect the deal to hit soon for the back-to-schoolers.

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While still routinely funnier than Garfield, Ziggy, and the Family Circus put together, the LOL Dilbert strips seem to be getting fewer and further between. Even this one isn’t brilliant, but the last panel was so unexpected, it surprised a chuckle out of me (COL?).

Alright, had it for less than a day, and already I’m hooked on my new (to me) Blackberry Curve. They really ought to market themselves better to the non-business crowd.

So far my favorite thing about it (other than it does everything it’s supposed to really well as opposed to pretty poorly, that’s right, I’m talking about you WinMo), is the Slacker app. It lets you cache stations on your memory card so in areas of poor service (like my house) you can still listen. And even if you are in an area of decent service, listening to cached stations requires less juice than listening over the air (listening to over the air streaming is fully supported too though so you don’t have to cache anything).

Eventually my love will undoubtedly turn into bitter hatred, but we’ll get to that later.

Here are some random links that came up from July 22nd to July 23rd that didn’t quite merit their own post:

• 15 Things We Can Do Now That We Have A Million Twitter Followers "Like Bono, use our celebrity to promote important causes. First cause: Shut Up, Bono."
• HTC Click Budget Android Rumors Start to Congeal With New Photo, Possible Price [Htc Click] And, for the quote of the day: "Six million sounds like an awful lot of dongs" (yes, that's probably the only reason I'm including this in today's webpourri)
• Devices for storing your baby Although I would never buy one myself, knowing that there's no way something like this could exist today makes me sad.

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Today, I’m not whining because I’m hungry, no, I’m whining because I ate well and now desperately need a nap.

Some good ol’ fashioned quiet-loud-quiet music from PJ Harvey should startle me out of my post-lunch coma. Remember, resist the urge to turn up the sound during the quiet parts or you’ll be sorry.

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Here are some random links that came up on July 22nd that didn’t quite merit their own post:

• Hollywood Stars File for Bankruptcy, Stephen Baldwin, Jose Canseco, Victoria Gotti, Annie Leibovitz – ABC News You mean "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" didn't resolve Stephen's financial challenges? Weird.
• Google Wave Opens to Non-Developers in September [Beta Beat] If this beta roll out is anything like Gmail, or Google Voice, it may still be a long while before you have anyone to "Wave" to, even if you do get in.

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I’m so rumbly in my tumbly. While I consider snacking on office supplies, please enjoy this cover of Duran Duran‘s Hungry Like the Wolf by Richard Cheese (right up there with Little Richard with guys who should stick with Richard as opposed to say… I dunno, Dick).

In the search for the perfect phone, I decided to dip my toe into the Blackberry pool. I’m now not so patiently waiting for my new toy to arrive and reading up on all things Blackberry.

I’m pleasantly surprised to see a huge number of enthusiast resources. I’ll admit I was anticipating less of the fanboyism that surrounds the hot gadgets, but Blackberry seems to have it’s fair share of zealots. Is Blackberry the one for me or will the lack of a touchscreen* drive me mad? We shall see.

*Part of the appeal of the Blackberry for me is the physical keyboard, so the Storm isn’t an option for me at the moment, plus I’d like to stick with Sprint for the time being.

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• Verizon blowing out Blackberry Storm (phonemag.com)
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Here are some random links that came up on July 20th that didn’t quite merit their own post:

• Living With the Pre: 23 Things Palm Could Improve By Software [Smartphones] I like Palm and the WebOS looks great, but I think I'm going to wait for them to iron some things out before jumping on board and burning my rare and valuable upgrade voucher.

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Xkcd perfectly expresses the problem with the time remaining estimation for file copies.

Reminds me of the old “if a car was like a PC” email that made the rounds back in the day.

Click on the pic to head over to the xkcd site.

In case you hadn’t heard, The Reverend Horton Heat is playing First Ave tonight. They always put on a great show; no doubt you’ll get a chance to see Jimbo surf on his upright bass by the end of the night. Check out the live clip below, then come out to see them tonight.

The interweb ate my blog tweets… if you care to see what you missed over the weekend, hit the blog directly: http://bit.ly/rUCfu

So, how do I follow up a week of goofy, monkey-centric pop? I’m not quite sure, but I’ll try to mix it up some. Today’s track is still fun (in a bitter kinda way). No Children by The Mountain Goats, is off their album Tallahassee.

If you enjoy it, think about checking them out live at The Cedar Cultural Center on November 7th. Tickets are on sale now.

Here are some random links that came up from July 17th to July 19th that didn’t quite merit their own post:

• Recipe for Low-Sugar Whole Wheat and Oatmeal Blueberry Muffins with Lemon
• Five Best GPS Devices [Hive Five]
• Learn the Economical Art of Wet Shaving [Shaving]
• With Plans to Recast Futurama, Fox Infuriates Fanboys Everywhere [Futurama]
• The Onion: Netflix Rejects Customer Rental of “Blue Velvet”

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