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Help rename the Solid Waste Services Department
The City of Austin is renaming the Solid Waste Services Department and they want our opinion. I’d like to name this contest “Solid Waste of my Taxes Department”. Still, it’s amusing and I’m always on board with amusing.
The current winning entry is Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts. The Ministry of Filth is a good one too. I would LOVE to see garbage trucks with that name painted on the side.
Macworld report part 3
Third and final installment….
On this video, you can see Amit demonstrating the power of this table. It’s a lot like Microsoft Surface, but not nearly as slick. It was not powered by a Mac and it wasn’t an iPhone case, so I’m not sure why it was at Macworld. I also don’t remember the company’s name. But given the graceful hand motions of the demo man, I could not skip it.
Click the link to see more amazing thing.
Snowing in ATX
England? Great Britain? United Kingdom?
I’m sure more than one of my readers is a little bit confused by this whole thing but is too embarrassed to ask. So here it is in convenient YouTube format:
Macworld report part 2
This little toy truck spins on a record and plays it. The sound quality is shit, so for $80 it’s a total rip-off. And I’m quite certain they are not licensing VW’s logo. It probably scratches the record, too. But hey, it’s neat! More info here.
Read more for the best part…
Macworld report part 1
I started following the Macworld Expo since long before the days of the Internet. But this is the first time that I’ve had the opportunity to attend. Macworld Expo is famous for being the place where Steve Jobs would use his superpowers to induce mass nerdgasms whenever he unveiled Apple’s latest creation, among others: iMac, iBook, iTunes, Safari, and of course, iPhone.
Sadly, in 2009 Apple decided not to participate in Macworld anymore. When Apple went, so did other large developers. But the Expo is still going year after year.
I bought expo floor-only passes. The conferences didn’t seem attractive enough to warrant the cruelty of putting Shlomit through them. So, a team of three correspondents (we were joined by Amit) from The MKX® attended Macworld.
About 2/3 of the expo area were covered with every imaginable iPhone/iPad case/stand. Still, here are some of the interesting things we saw from the other 1/3.
Read more to see a few…
The monster storm
Today’s quote: Ramin Mehmanparast
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on the ongoing protests in Egypt against Mubarak:
Iran expects Egyptian officials to listen to the voice of their Muslim people, respond to their rightful demands and refrain from exerting violence by security forces and police against an Islamic wave of awareness that has spread through the country in form of a popular movement
I commend the Iranian government on raising the bar in the art of hypocrisy to unimagined levels only a year after the D.O.A. Green Revolution.
Live from Macworld 2011
