This, from the link, does kind of make it sound like they addressed 5.5:

Interesting. I was considering a reverse inline deadfishhead grind, with a slight inversion of the rotary inline girder.

Funniest? No. But I laughed loud enough that office-mates asked what was going on.

More importantly, who uses #hastags in text/iMessages? Is this is a thing?

They're not using the normal SOPA popup, they're using a custom Wiki page devoted to it. There - all better.

I'm still weirded out that there is a significant likelihood that at least some of the people you see in Street View are dead. Kind of like how, after reading Chuck Klosterman's "Eating the Dinosaur", I get weirded out that I was listening to dead people laugh every time I watch Seinfeld.

I thought it had something to do with a lawsuit, no?

And on really good nights, they listened to Three Dog Night. [en.wikipedia.org]

You know you can turn that off, right? Because yes, that does suck.

I'm half finished downloading and it has said 20 minutes remaining (give or take 2 minutes) since I started 20 minutes ago... Damn the busy servers!

Probably around 10am PST.

That's what I thought, but I'm still going to hope for a midnight release so I can wake up and install before I got to work... I guess I was hoping for someone to feed the delusion.

Exactly why I want to know as well!

Is there any indication as to what time iOS 5 will be released tomorrow?

I wonder how future employees affect unemployment numbers....

I love how hating Apple for no apparent reason is the new loving Apple for no apparent reason. Me? I like Apple and I recognize that I, at times, have fanboy tendencies despite my reluctance to admit it. However, I find the reverse-fanboys even more ridiculous. "Apple is done"... right. Remember how many people were…

Underpatents, indeed.

Step 1: Buy Patents

If by "Whitman is the person who spearheaded eBay's terrific growth a decade ago" you mean "Took an incredibly popular company public and rode the wave of cash flowing in under the guise of 'success" then yes, she spearheaded that.

Heartily agreed! The early Tom, the classic romantic American Drunk, was great and I love going back to that. But pop in Orphans, or Alice, or Bone Machine, or... well, you get it. The man is a genius that can harness brake drums, Glockenspiels, and a voice like coarse sand paper into deeply moving or incredibly…