UPS delivery captured by a security camera. Ouch 🙁
Apple iPhones for 99 cents
Posted on August 3, 2007 ·
Have you purchased a $1,500 iPhone? Well, now you could stand in line just as long and get it for $0.99 – yes that’s ninety-nine cents only.
The catch? You have to be in the first 9 customers at 99¢ Only Stores’ 25th Anniversary Celebration.
I wonder why 9 only … 99 would have been more appropriate for 99 (c) Only. I guess they are… hm.. there’s no better way to say it, so I will just say: cheap. Funny thing is, 99¢ Only Stores may very well be the only business proudly waring the “cheap” badge. After all, they’ve built a business on being cheap. 😉
Update: Standing in a long line is definitely a better deal than what this man went through…
Additional reading: Apple 2.0 , IntoMobile, MacDailyNews, Lost Remote, PalmAddicts, Forever Geek
Elton John: Shut Down the Internet
Posted on August 1, 2007 ·
“I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole Internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.
Ouch… I’ve never thought the day would come when I’d prefer Sir Elton keep his mouth shut.
(full story at The Sun and CNet)
P.S. I’ve never thought I’d ever see Sir Elton on TechMeme, either 
Update: (7/6/2010): Apparently Sir Elton forgot to shut this thing off. Three years later it’s now Prince’s turn. Oh, well… we’ll check back on this in 2013…
NASA’s Bad Hair Day: Drinking, Sabotage, Theft
Posted on July 26, 2007 ·
NASA is having a certified Bad Hair Day: Sabotage, Drunk Cosmonauts, Theft – what else should we expect?
Several sources reported that a computer that is supposed to fly aboard shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, was sabotaged.
A NASA panel reported that drunk astronauts were allowed to fly despite warnings about their alcohol consumption. I guess no cops can catch them for DUI up there.
Compared to this the loss of $94M in office equipment is just petty theft. Here’s my favorite explanation, this one referring to a missing laptop, valued $4,265:
This computer, although assigned to me, was being used on board the International Space Station. I was informed that it was tossed overboard to be burned up in the atmosphere when it failed.
Your tax money at work. 
I Got ASCII-d
Posted on July 21, 2007 ·
Amit Agarwal created the ASCII mugshots of 100 bloggers, including yours truly.
The current list includes aaron brazell, adam pash, amanda congdon, amit gupta, andy beal, andy beard, andy hagans, anil dash, beth kanter, brian clark, chris garrett, chris messina, chris pearson, chris pirillo, danny sullivan, darren rowse, dave winer, david pogue, dawud miracle, duncan riley, eric giguere, eric rice, frank gruber, gabe rivera, gina trapani, guy kawasaki, howard lindzon, hugh macleod, ian kennedy, index, jason kottke, jason mccabe calacanis, jason shellen, jeff jarvis, jennifer slegg, jeremiah owyang, jeremy schoemaker, jeremy wagstaff, jeremy wright, jeremy zawodny, john battelle, jon udell, kristopher tate, leo laporte, leon ho, liz gannes, loic le meur, long zheng, loren baker, marc orchant, mark evans, marshall kirkpatrick, mary jo foley, mathew ingram, matt cutts, matt mullenweg, merlin mann, michael arrington, michael mcdonald, michael parekh, minic rivera, neil patel, niall kennedy, nick denton, nick douglas, nicole simon, om malik, orli yakuel, paul kedrosky, paul thurrott, pete cashmore, philipp lenssen, rafat ali, rafe needleman, rand fishkin, randy charles morin, richard macmanus, rick klau, robert scoble, robyn tippins, ross mayfield, ryan stewart, scott beale, scott hanselman, scott rafer, seth godin, shawn hogan, shel israel, steve rubel, tara hunt, thomas hawk, tony hung, tris hussey, vanessa fox, veronica belmont, walt mossberg, wendy boswell, wendy cheng, wendy piersall, yaro starak, zoli erdos.
Thanks, Amit! 
Update: Hey, Chris Pirillo, is this soft-porn or what? 
Arrested for a Kiss
Posted on July 21, 2007 ·
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of kissing a painting by American artist Cy Twombly and smudging the bone-white canvas with her lipstick, French judicial officials said Saturday…
Full story on Yahoo News.
My Office 2.1 Setup
Posted on July 18, 2007 ·
…and although laptops are crippling us, there are times we can’t live without them
Update: I guess the pic above is my answer to Guy Kawasaki’s question.
Tags: office 2.0, office 2.1, laptops
Enterprise 0.5 in Monterey
Posted on July 9, 2007 ·
Monterey, CA:
Next to Monterey is pretty Carmel, where this sign greets patrons of Carmel Plaza, the main shopping center:
Rules of Common Courtesy
Sticks under 1/4″ diameter are OK, larger ones are forbidden, knives over 2″ forbidden (geez, what about all the restaurants on the premises?), no photography without express permission – wow, everyone there is a tourist, and almost all are taking pix…
I wonder when the TSA will take over running the Plaza…
Please Update Your Feed
Posted on July 3, 2007 ·
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Thank you for being my reader either way.
Your $1,500 iPhone – the Cost of iDay
Posted on July 2, 2007 ·
Were you in line to buy the first batch of iPhones on Friday? If so, you’re probably the proud owner of a $1,500 phone … at least. The base price for the two models is $499 and $599, but you probably could you resist getting some accessories. Did you spend 5 hours in line? 10? A day and a half like Robert Scoble? How much is your time worth?
If we’re looking at $100 an hour (and frankly, almost everyone in the famous Palo Alto line is in a higher bracket) the real cost of an average iPhone purchased on iDay could very well be $1,500 or more.
But hey, you could have done worse… by buying a spot from this poor(?) fellow for $5,000 (photo credit: Engadget). (Oh, wait, it came with a free chair, what a deal…)
The real losers are those who stood on line all day in the hope of making a quick buck on eBay. Corey Spring posted an analysis of 933 eBay auctions, and came to two conclusions:
- Half (52%) of the iPhone auctions expired without a single bid,
- Those that actually concluded with a deal, yielded an average profit of $54.43 (yes, a lousy fifty bucks).
Factoring in the time they spent in line (or the average $15/hour some paid for their “stand-ins”), it’s probably fair to say that eBayers are at a net loss. And they did not have the experience, either 
Update: The cutest iPhone users 🙂
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