Apple is, unsurprisingly, not going to stand still and let Google Android and Palm WebOS get the upper hand on features. They pretty much went down the wish list of features for the update and checked of every one of them: copy/paste, push notifications, better Bluetooth support, and so on. Pretty much the only feature left out is background apps which Apple again dissed as a large source of battery drain.

Flash is also still a no-show, but that’s not a surprise, nor something I think Apple plans on addressing anytime soon. In any case, I still don’t think Flash would be any good on any phone device at this time.

Consumers get it this summer… I can’t wait.

Apple today announced that this is the last year for Christmas. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, spoke at a joint press conference held with Santa Claus at the North Pole this morning.

(Via DF.)

WTF Amazon?  NCAA garden gnomes?  On the front page of your site?  Really?

Genius.

Edit (9/25): Fixed link after all this time.

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Enjoy.

(Thanks DealNews)

Here’s one of my favorites: Minutes of Sleep

(Via swissmiss.)

A bunch of wonderful pics of people flipping-off Hummers.

(Via Deron Bauman @ Kottke.)

I wandered around SoHo and the Village, ending up at Magnolia Bakery. Of course I got a cupcake. It was indeed good, but I have to say that Portland’s Saint Cupcake has them beat, hands down on the cupcake front.

Fucking cupcake bitches, call me back when they have cup-pies.

I must say that I’m loving the Venn diagram illustrative tool as seen here as well.

(Link via DF)

I Believe in Harvey Dent

(If you don’t know, via Cinematical.)

Update (5/20/07): I Believe in Harvey Dent Too… Get your first glimpse of the Joker (just wait for him to reveal himself)! (Also via Cinematical.)

Update (5/21/07): Never-mind, the joke is over. See you in December.

Even better, check this Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Steve Jobs’s ‘A Greener Apple’ Article. Here’s my favorite excerpt:

Dear Greenpeace,

Fuck you.

Love,
Steve.

I couldn’t agree more.

(PR Translation from Jesper via Daring Fireball.)

If you visit John McCain’s MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him. He’s apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians.

Why would a presidential candidate make such an important announcement on his MySpace page?

The answer? He wouldn’t.

But I would.

Brilliant!

(Via Kottke.)

Of course now that Arcade Fire are the “hottest band in music” according to CMJ and #2 on the Billboard (only trailing a dead guy) my whole indie world is experiencing a bit of turbulence…

Inviting a creationist and a scientist to discuss evolution isn’t debate – it’s sophistry. There aren’t “two sides” to global warming: scientists agree that it’s a fact. For fun, let’s take a look at what TV would look like if “both sides” of the issues were truly represented.

Enjoy!

We asked our readers to send in the best cock logos from around the world for our team of experts to evaluate. Now we present to you the very cream of the cocks.

I honestly never noticed PTC’s logo even though I use Pro/Engineer from them; I guess they get extra points for subtlety.

(Via Sex Drive Daily.)

It reminded me of this old series of screenshots showing the seven steps required to delete a desktop shortcut in Vista. To be fair, these pics were taken when Vista was still in beta & I had hoped (yes, I’d actually like Vista to be pretty good) that they would fix this issue in the retail release. Apparently they stuck with the “confirm everything” method of security, which just sucks all around.

Update (2/6/08): More on this security from this post by Jeff Atwood (thanks to Andrew Escobar for the link):

The problem with the Security Through Endless Warning Dialogs school of thought is that it doesn’t work. All those earnest warning dialogs eventually blend together into a giant “click here to get work done” button that nobody bothers to read any more. The operating system cries wolf so much that when a real wolf– in the form of a virus or malware– rolls around, you’ll mindlessly allow it access to whatever it wants, just out of habit.

I totally agree with that. Mac OS X does a really good job of only putting up warnings when they are expected and needed, it would seem that in Vista that’s not the case.

And what a great message it is… (I’m no Rosie fan but I hate The Donald.)

I mean, he codes, he blogs, plays video games, he composes, and he sings: I want to be Cabel when I grow up. (Editor’s note, graduating from college would be a good time to start that grow up thing).

Who else would film bugs in Saints Row then edit them together with musical theatre? I present to you: Buggy Saints Row: The Musical

(Also, I would ask that someone grant me that kind of free time for personal blog-worthy projects… please?)

There’s been some absolutely wonderful and comprehensive coverage of the Zune out there (in addition to the stories that end up sounding like iPod ads) but so far what’s struck me the most about the Zune is it’s filthy sexual undertones:

First, Mirosoft CEO Steve “Monkeyboy” Ballmer described sharing content between two Zunes like this:

I want to squirt you a picture of my kids. You want to squirt me back a video of your vacation. That’s a software experience.

Steve, I’ve got to say that really sounds more like some kind of frathouse sexcapade where you end up with an infection on your genitals.

Then came the Zune software install screen, which seems to feature two girls making out while another one yells out in orgasm. Or maybe she’s in pain? It’s really not clear.

The best sexual connotation for the Zune unfortunately doesn’t come from Microsoft, but it’s so wonderfully dirty it doesn’t matter. Crazy Apple Rumors Site commenter Rip Ragged wrote this technology pr0n:

…her warm, moist vista engulfed my turgid Zune. “Ubuntu, ubuntu,” she repeated as she climbed from a husky whisper to a shrieking, wildly bucking crescendo, “UBUNTU, UBUNTU.”

I collapsed in her arms and murmured into her ear, “Welcome to the social.”

Okay, so you probably be a huge nerd to appreciate that one, but I can’t wipe the grin off my face so it’s staying up.

Story of My Life:

Me too.. way too much these days.

This week’s episode is a rerun of one of my favorite episodes ever: #61 Fiasco! featuring the interview about a state production of Peter Pan. It’s quite possibly the funniest radio bit or interview I’ve ever heard and a great place to start if you’ve never heard the show. But get it fast because “each podcast/downloadable episode is free for exactly one week, beginning Monday.”

Subscribe in iTunes now!

Favorites: Stan Lee, Cory Doctorow, and Meretzky’s on Leia.

(Via Kottke.)

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Parallels between my living through two years of middle school and the two terms of the Bush presidency

(Via kottke.org.)

What I have ascertained is not that PCs as we know them lack good design, but that PCs as we know them have hardly any design to speak of. I’m not trying to be insulting. Use a Mac for a week, and we’ll talk again.

[...]

[The Mac] is extremely good at what it does, which is to say, exposing functionality.

Be sure to check out the rest of the post and the comic for some more intriguing (and humorous) insights.

I love to hear these kinds of things, especially from technologically savvy users, because it helps me keep that smug look on my face…

Update (3/6/05): New posts and comic with more on the Mac.

How do you know when you’ve got too many unread RSS feeds?

…

When your wife asks ‘I tried to open Safari, but I accidentally opened 16191. What’s 16191?’

Thinks hard… but stumped. Then I lean over and laugh. ‘Hehehe… that’s just NetNewsWire, honey.’

Yeah, that sounds about right to me…

(Via MacHappy.)

Watch out because it’s a WMV file so you’ll need Flip4Mac WMV to play it on a Mac.

(Via Cinematical.)

Far be it from us to ridicule folks who desperately cling to ancient technology, hoping against hope it will serve their current needs… nevermind, let’s ridicule them. This pic was apparently snapped at the Genius Bar of an Apple Store, where the customer had brought in a Mac SE, circa 1988, asking for upgrade recommendations. The guy had apparently been using the machine, which runs at a blazing 8MHz (and this time that’s not a typo!), for his banking and for some bizarre reason he decided it was time to look into something a little beefier. Given that the Genius actually appears to be checking the machine out, rather than smirking knowingly and recommending that the customer turn it into a fish tank, we think there’s a good chance he told him to upgrade the RAM (the SE can handle a whopping 4MB) and sent him home. And then smirked knowingly to his fellow Geniuses.

I know I couldn’t have held back the smirk unil the guy left: I would have had to take a break in the AppleCare room and yell.