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Five Miles in Los Angeles

Helping a Bulldog

Let’s go for a swim! (Don’t forget your sunscreen!)
A friend of mine discovered what may be the most horrifying cause of death in the history of the world.
College football season starts in just about eight weeks. Much of it is televised. You should watch.
Driving with His Lordship would make getting lost pretty scary.
The Rolling Stone article concludes by declaring we have no hope of winning in Afghanistan. That is 10,000 times more important than any stupid snipe by an unnamed “aide”.
If you have an old iPhone collecting dust, you can easily convert it into an iPod Touch. Or you could simply try to let yourself be bored.
Did you know that an astronaut on the International Space Station was tweeting photos from space? (see also)
You Were Doing It Wrong is the best Ask.MeFi thread ever. It should be required reading for everyone on the planet. (Second best!)

2024-06-10: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Replaced by iPhone

An incomplete list of everyday items that have been replaced by my iPhone

The sketches on Funny Or Die keep getting better. This week Zachary Quinto (Sylar from Heroes / Spock from the new Star Trek) appears as a convenience store robber who manages to get his life on track… sorta.
Here’s the feel-good story of the day: A Portland couple — and their ’57 Chrysler — are still going strong after 50 years.
Slate has published an interesting article on how the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting, and why that’s dangerous.
I work with a developer in India who frequently complains that Outlook does not display messages from me correctly. He insists that it’s because my mail program — Apple’s Mail.app — doesn’t compose messages properly. I insist that it’s because Outlook sucks. (See also: Windows crashes displays at new Cowboys stadium during Oklahoma / BYU game.)
When is it not cool to see recently-declassified video of decades-old nuclear weapons tests?
Make sure to read TMQ’s all-haiku 2009 NFL preview.
Daring Fireball mentioned that he hasn’t actually ever seen a Palm Pre in the wild, which might explain why its sales numbers are well below their projections. A guy in my office has one. Every time I see it I wonder what would possess someone to get anything other than an iPhone.
AT&T says MMS for iPhones will launch on 9/25. I really don’t see why everyone is freaking about this. I don’t really like MMS. It’s simple enough to email something from an iPhone; why not just do that? Everyone was freaking about copy and paste and I didn’t understand that either. Sure C&P is a great feature, but I’ve probably used it ten times in the last 3 months… Three years ago I had a BlackBerry Pearl and before that a RAZR and I was always thrilled just to be able to actually receive telephone calls on them. As far as I’m concerned the iPhone is the best American invention since… well… the iPod.
I completely agree with Chris Coyier: It would be brilliant to invest in Red Box… if this was 1997.
DirecTV NFL Mobile: The most expensive free app in the world
It took forever, but there is finally an official Flickr app for the iPhone.

2024-02-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

iTunes Tuesday: iPhone Music Streaming

An app to stream your library

iTunes Tuesday: Display Song Lyrics

Did you know that you can store a song’s lyrics inside iTunes? Simply right-click on any song and choose Get Info. Then switch to the Lyrics tab and paste the lyrics there. Now when you play that track on your iPhone or iPod touch, the lyrics will be displayed right on the screen.