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09 June 2008

The Cost of the iPhone: More Per Month for Data - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog

The Cost of the iPhone: More Per Month for Data

New data plans cost $10 more, meaning over time the new iPhones actually cost more than the previous ones.

System specs for Spore

Looks like the MacBook will actually run it. I’m surprised.

05 June 2008

Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat?

“Prohibiting photography was something we used to ridicule about the USSR.”

04 June 2008

Newsarama redesigns

Finally, finally, finally includes RSS feeds.

03 June 2008

I downloaded Weezer’s new album this morning and listened to it on the Metro. I can never tell how I feel about a new record until I’ve heard it a few times, but it’s pretty good. I loved Weezer (the green one) when it came out but it hasn’t aged as well, and Maladroit and Make Believe never made it into any lasting rotation. Really Weezer (the blue one) and Pinkerton are all I need from that band (yet I keep giving them my money).

Anyway, remember those logic puzzles from school where you’d have a pattern and have to extrapolate the next items in the series? Here’s what Weezer seems to be doing:

Self-titled album (blue)
One named album (Pinkerton)
Self-titled album (green)
Named album (Maladroit)
Named album (Make Believe)
Self-titled album (red)

So it looks like it’s a color, then either n+1 titled albums, or perhaps n*2. To stick to their pattern they need to release three or four more named albums before another color.

02 June 2008

Charles Atlas: The Ad That Made an Icon Out of Mac

The Scientist : Banana: R.I.P.

In the 1960s a disease wiped out almost all of the breed of bananas sold around the world, and now a new strain is threatening the fruit.