Damn. Add some robotic arms and you could cook dinner by remote control.

Great Zombie Jesus! Those are some expensive plans. 500 minutes (30 of which I use, thanks to free incoming and free nights & weekends starting at 5pm), unlimited text, and unlimited 3G (soft-capped at 10gb) cost me $49/mo at i-wireless (localized T-Mobile). Unlimited minutes are just $10 more. I'm stuck with a…

I thought Blue Mountain was from Jamaica?

When I bought my Hario Slim grinder (which you recommended, of course) the package was 100% not-English, including the instructions. It was obviously intended for Japanese audiences, with a couple other oriental scripts included as the six or so languages that were translated. Glad it was stupid-easy to figure out,…

All the kickarse rockers are on indie labels these days. Anybody with talent knows to stay as far away from the RIAA as possible.

Reminds me of the coffee mug sitting on my office desk. Yay Dinosaur Comics! (I'd link to a place you can buy it, but they are outta stock and so the page is gone.)

I like the keyboard layout, but the metallic purple can just die. Is this computer intended for 12-year-old girls?

Perhaps two-finger scroll is implemented? (Believe me, that's the best feeling implementation anyway, I have to use both almost daily.)

The Simpsons were using 'meh' long before the internet adopted the term. Circa 1999 Lisa coins the phrase (though my internet sources say its original usage dates back to 1986)

This is the sort of thing nightmares are made of.

If I were Amazon, I charge a 30% "convenience fee" for in-app purchases on iOS. Nobody would actually buy stuff in-app, it'd just fulfill the policy requirements and say, "Fuck you!" to Apple.

@mrm: But the point is that Apple still supported that phone. Nobody expects every old handset to run the latest software, but when iOS4 came out, they still offered it to iP3G users "at their own risk." Motorola won't even do that much. They kill their phones before the new one even comes out.

@cinnamonster: Some phones, even after years of work, are un-moddable. The Motorola Milestone, for instance, is using the same eFuse chip that the Droid X/2 use, which prevents unauthorized bootloaders. So though root access is possible, without a bootloader installing your own OS version is impossible.

Motorola is notorious for this. After months and months of promising Froyo to Milestone owners (the GSM version of their Droid), they announced in January that only select European owners would be receiving an update.

Ugh. The comments today. Casey I totally understand how you might be "jealous" of these people.

The leading image looks a lot scarier because of the HDR toning applied to the photograph. Those are some damn cool clouds, but hardly irregular.

This would make an excellent tablet (that is, iPad) dock. Slide in for video games, slide back out to carry around.

It's not quite as clearcut as $50 iPhone vs. $40 dumbphone - in 99% of cases, the smartphone requires a data plan to get the huge discount, and many people (for instance, my parents, my 21-year-old brother) aren't willing to spend the dough on data every month. Depending on your carrier, the starting plan can be as…

@cosmicanomaly: I don't know about the PS3, but one can't stream Amazon to the Xbox without local a PC serving the media to it—even then it's pretty finicky thanks to some bad DRM.

Have no plans to ditch Netflix, but if Amazon can eventually offer first-run TV shows, I'll be happy give them my money. (I buy enough crap from Amazon already, I was thinking of going Prime just for the shipping discount.) And I'd love to leave the measly Hulu+ behind.