iTunes Phone Approved!
The FCC in America has approved the iPOD phone, and with their report they have included several pictures and included the manual, which gives us an idea of how the phone will work with iPod features.
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Skype It Up
Skype had its 150 Millionth download the other day. 150 Million. That’s more than there are people in Australia. I’ve been using it for a while now… and I’ll be damned if I don’t know why it’s not so popular.
Skype is voIP (Voice over IP). For those of you who have no idea what it is, VoIP is calling people over the internet, and Skype (from the makers of Kaaza) makes it simple to use. Think of it as voice MSN/AOL/ICQ. Even on a capped cable connection, (slower than dial-up) I can still manage to have a normal phone quality conversation with someone. Oh… did I mention it’s all FREE? Go and download it right now from http://www.skype.com/… install it… and enjoy. It’s just farking cool. My username’s phonejohnsee… skype me ;)
The Good… The Bad… The Ugly (e!)
Good: Your son studies a lot in his room
Bad: You find several porn movies hidden there
Ugly: You’re in them
Good: Your husband understands fashion
Bad: He’s a cross dresser
Ugly: He looks better than you
Bad: Your wife’s leaving you.
Worse: For another woman.
Ugly: To enter a convent.
Bad: You can’t find your vibrator.
Worse: Your daughter “borrowed” it.
Bad: Your wife’s arrested for soliciting.
Worse: She implicates you.
Good: Hot outdoor sex.
Bad: You’re arrested.
Worse: By your husband.
Good: The teacher likes your son.
Bad: Sexually.
Good: You came home for a quickie.
Bad: Your wife walks in.
Ugly: So did the postman.
Good: You go to see a strip show.
Bad: Your daughter’s the headliner.
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The Cost of The War On Terror in US$1 Bills
Eighty-Seven Billion dollars … This is what the President is asking for. It is 100 feet tall, 250 feet long, and 125 feet wide. A stack of singles would be 28,998,000 feet, or over 5,492 miles, or a round-trip between Washington DC and Los Angeles, California. (2,650 miles, one-way).
A Boeing 737-200 jet is 100 feet long. You could fit 2 of those jets nose to nose along the length of this pile, and have room to spare.
If we spread the $87 billion over an American football field, we would not be able to see much of the game. The players would be buried in 55 feet of money.
$87 billion is more than all of the states’ current budget deficits, combined. $87 billion is more than twice the amount we’re spending on Homeland Security.
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Shame about that poverty huh!
Pickup Lines: Mario Style!
“Are you a magic feather? Because my heart just grew a tail, and flew away.”
“If you were a warp tube, I’d be in you all day.”
“Are you a magic mushroom? Because you are making me grow.”
“Are you a magic flower? Because you are burning me up.”
“I’d rather ride you than Yoshi any day.”
“If Princess Toad looked liked you, I would have killed Bowser years ago.”
“If I had the choice, I would gladly spend my 100 coins on you instead of on an extra life.”
“You don’t have to turn on a game to play with me.”
“They don’t call me Super for nothing.”
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British Police Credibility Just Keeps Sliding Downhill…
London police and their shoot-to-kill policy are under acute pressure after leaked documents revealed a chilling series of blunders leading to the killing of an innocent Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes. The documents and photographs, obtained by Britain’s ITV news network, appear wholly to contradict plain-clothes police officers’ claims that Mr de Menezes was dressed in a bulky coat, acted suspiciously and ignored police warnings when he was shot seven times in the head on July 22 in front of horrified fellow passengers on an Underground train. When Mr Menezes left his block of flats in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill, at 9.30am on July 22, he was unaware of the covert police surveillance team watching the flats. The leaked documents say the team was waiting for Hussain Osman, an Ethiopian-born man suspected of having tried one day earlier to blow up a train at nearby Shepherd’s Bush.
The plain-clothes officer charged with photographing the suspect, however, was answering a call of nature when Mr Menezes emerged and did not have a free hand to operate his video device. As a result, no reliable visual identification was made. The officer reported to colleagues that a male of the appropriate age had left the building, but advised that it would be worth someone else looking to obtain a positive identification.
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Worst 2 Weeks in Civil Aviation History?
These past 2 weeks have been officially called the worst weeks in aviation history in 3 years. First, the Air France A340 running off the runway into a valley. Everyone Survived. Next, The ATR-72 crashing into the ocean, 23 out of 34 survived. The 737 Crashing into a hill, nobody survived. Finally, the McDonnel Douglas MD-80 crashing into the hill side yet again, no survivors, and these have all been servicing and maintenance problems, well like most problems. This wont look good in all the main airliner companies books, theres DeHavilland and a few others to get hit now…. well, thats 292 dead. well, it’s nowhere near as impressive as the World Trade Center.
Shot Brit was NOT running from Police
Its been about am onth now since the huge debate over whether police shooting a man, who ran on suspicion of being a suicide bomber, did the right thing. Now an investigation into the incident has been leaked, and it appears the cops greatly exadurated about the incident:
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head by two plainclothes policemen who had followed him on to the train at Stockwell station in the mistaken belief that he was a potential suicide bomber. Documents and photographs leaked to ITV News also confirmed that Mr de Menezes did not run from the police, as had been reported, had used his Tube pass to enter the station, rather than vault the barrier, and had taken a seat on the train before being grabbed by an officer. He was wearing a light denim jacket and not as previously reported a padded coat which could have concealed explosives.
Now even IF he struggled when they grabbed him, and I’m not sure whether he did, would you blame him? The officers were in plain clothes. If two people grabbed me out of the blue I would be stuggling!
iGoogle Music Store
The rumors are quickly spreading that Apple and Google will be partnering up to sell iTunes selections through Google. The universe may be getting larger, but the world wide web is becoming smaller.
Origins of Company Names
This page lists the origins of lots of the big Silicon valley companies and how they got their names. Some are boring, but some of them are pure gold:
Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.
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