Adam Fields (weblog)

I’m thoroughly underwhelmed by the ipod phone.

It might be useful if it would let you stream your itms songs to the phone without having to have downloaded them first, or even better, stream your whole collection to the phone.

As it is, it’s yet another example of “convergence” devices that are really two different things pressed together and not integrated.

http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/itunes_ROKR.html

The ipod nano looks cute though.

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/

You never know what could happen.

Originally uploaded by Caviar.

My first save of the Deleteme Uncensored group…

Kottke has a post about how to make microwave popcorn without a microwave. Letting aside the possibility that this is just a sick joke of some kind, it’s wrong for a number of reasons.

1. Microwave popcorn is, itself, the hack.
2. Microwave popcorn is a sticky glumpy mess because it’s full of all kinds of things you shouldn’t eat. Also, it’s far more expensive than just buying even really high quality popcorn, which it isn’t.
3. This AskMe thread has some great suggestions for how to make stovetop popcorn, including how to make regular popcorn in a microwave without buying “microwave popcorn”.

http://www.kottke.org/05/09/popcorn-hacks

Bruce Schneier has a link to the digital-er list, for discussion of technical solutions to emergency response and crisis situations. There are some other resources in the comments as well.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/digital-er.html

Keith Olbermann decides that Michael Chertoff’s mistaking Louisiana for a city is just one step too far.

You must watch this.

http://camworld.com/katrina/movies/MSNBC-Olbermann-Rant-090505.mov

Transcript here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9231761/