“I will not call him the knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, I’ll let his wife call him that instead.“
…in reply to a coment by potential rival Rick Santorum. This is great news, as it confirms she does believe in evolution after all! Also, because it gives me an excuse to use that photo.
This is my brother Jacobo. He ran the Miami Half Marathon on January 30th. This is particularly impressive because my family (myself included) is genetically engineered to prevent any kind of prolonged physical activity – with the exception of TV watching.
Congratulations! Slow-motion replay of him crossing the line embedded below:
Via Failblog.
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.
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.
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:
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…
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…
