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Monthly Archives: June 2009
iDay +2 years: Happy Birthday, iPhone!
Yep, two years old today. I almost forgot.
My original iPhone has now become an “enhanced” iPod Touch for my son, but it’s not only still kicking it’s still going strong. Love my iPhones!
Posted in Apple, History, Personal, Technology, iPod / iPhone / iTunes
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Steve Jobs is back at work
As if anyone didn’t already know, it’s now official. New York Times:
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple said Monday that Steven P. Jobs, its co-founder and chief executive, had returned to work following a five-month medical leave during which he had a liver transplant.
“Steve is back to work,” said Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman. “He is currently [...]
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Painting the Moon
Nice profile of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean in the paper of record.
Posted in Arts, History, Space
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Large Hadron Collider restart delayed until October
It was set to restart in late September, but the date will probably be pushed back a few weeks.
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Quote of the week
vjack writing at his incredible Atheist Revolution blog, Idiot of the Week: Juliana Davis:
It is becoming increasingly apparent to me that some people reconcile any discrepancies they encounter between reality and religious belief by completely disregarding reality.
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Pixar grants girl’s dying wish to see ‘Up’
This story is all over the place this morning, but is too touching to ignore. Annie Burris writing in The Orange County Register:
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, [...]
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iPhone 3G S launch day
Well, for me it’s all up to FedEx now. Might be early, might be late, but at least I won’t have to head across town to wait in line at the Apple Store…
Posted in Apple, Books, Can't Wait!, Entertainment, Games and Gaming, Movies, Music, Personal, Podcast, Technology, Television, iPod / iPhone / iTunes
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Fossil solves mystery of dinosaur finger evolution
LiveScience:
Now, newly described fossilized hands from a beaked, plant-eating dinosaur, called Limusaurus inextricabilis, reveal a transitional step in the evolution of modern wings from dino digits. The finding could resolve a debate over which fingers ultimately became embedded in the wing.
Of course, to the intelligent design/creationist crowd, the finding merely creates two gaps in the [...]
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Apple requests UPS to hold back iPhone 3Gs deliveries until Friday
AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has requested that UPS hold back deliveries of iPhone 3Gs shipments until Friday, June 19th.
Crap! While I was assuming that I wouldn’t be able to activate my new iPhone until Friday even if it was delivered on Thursday, I was hoping to be able to wake up early Friday to [...]
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Racism still ‘alive and well’ in the Tennessee Legislature
While we’re on the subject of sad commentaries… It would appear that racism is quite unfortunately still alive and well in the Tennessee Legislature.
The Tennessean:
Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide for Senate Republican Caucus Chairwoman Diane Black, sent the e-mail last month to other staff for Republican senators. It shows a portrait or photo of each [...]
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Why is education always the first thing threatened by budget cuts?
If this isn’t a great national crisis, I don’t know what is. It’s sadly indicative of what our culture truly values when you see stories from across the nation indicating that education is still one of the first things lawmakers want to cut when money gets tight at the state level.
Here in Tennessee, budget shortfalls [...]
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Atheism is not a religion
Truly excellent piece at Skeptico:
This is a refrain I’m hearing a lot from religious apologists – atheism is a religion. Also its equally fallacious siblings, science is a religion and evolution is a religion. It’s a sign of their desperation that the best argument they have is not that atheism is wrong, or that god [...]