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Entries from June 2007

Your iPhone is now ready for use… as a paperweight.

June 30th, 2007 · No Comments

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Your iPhone is now ready for use as a paperweight., originally uploaded by michaelsharon.

Dear Apple,
Thanks for making the iPhone and providing zillions of them at launch day. I walked into one of your fine [...]

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Tags: Life · Tools

iPhone Porn and the “google” neologism juggernaut

June 25th, 2007 · No Comments

As is my habit, I woke up this morning and reached for whatever new iPhone pr0n was available. Luckily for me, Apple had just thrown up a lengthy (20 mins) new “documentary”/feature propaganda (20 mins) featuring a friendly Apple designer/model/actor.
One thing that stood out for me, in between high contrast video of the phone [...]

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Tags: Images · Language · Life · Supercool · Tools

Transvestar: A man who uses a female avatar

June 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Transvestar
n. a man who uses a female avatar on popular online services such as Second Life, World of Warcraft and many others.
(alt) n. A superstar tranvestite, like Mitzi from Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
So we were having drinks with Alli Mooney and Jeremy from NGT at my place of the moment - Death & [...]

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Tags: Life

Wherecamp

June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

I went to my second unconference yesterday - the geographically themed Wherecamp SF held at Yahoo’s campus in Sunnyvale. After the great experience I had at MobileCamp a few weeks ago, I was interested to see what the format of this one was like. Ryan Sarver, Leonard Lin, Anselm Hook and everybody else involved [...]

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Tags: Movement

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