Repeat after me: the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”.
After a lot of blustering, internet forum posts, upset fanboys, and threats of lawsuits over the iPhone 3G’s alleged reception problems, some people with equipment and knowledge tested it an discovered its radio performance to be essentially identical to the Nokia N73 and the Sony-Ericsson P1.
If clever design is taking something humdrum and adding a genuinely useful new purpose, whilst also making people go “damn, why didn’t I think of that” then this iPhone case surely fits the bill. It snaps apart into two pieces, which then fit back together differently to form a cradle stand for the iPhone, ideal for propping it up somewhere to watch video on.
That reminds me, I have to write a post about PSP vs iPhone as video playback devices.
Apologies to anyone disturbed by me on the 8:47 Cwmbran-Cardiff today, but I rediscoverd cracked.com this morning (hurrah for iPhone browsing). I started with this piece on Dunbar’s Number, which is more thoughtful than funny; the writer’s metaphors are very nicely constructed though, and it’s an excellent discussion of the topic. However I then moved on to The 9 Most Badass Bible Versus and The 9 Manliest Names In The World, both of which are simply excellent. I urge you to read them immediately, before you are attacked by a deadly tag-team of Samson and Staff Sgt Max Fightmaster.
Matt sent me a link to this Digg thread which quotes:
Gov. Rick Perry said that he supported the policy of the Harrold school district to allow teachers and staff members to carry guns at school as long as they are adequately trained in gun safety.
The comments there are… well, they’ve made me whither and die a little inside just by reading them. I would urge you to read them in moderation and do not drive or operate heavy machinery for sometime afterward in case of dizzy spells. I mean, come on. Let’s arm all the teachers in a school? What could be wrong with having a hundred handguns floating around a school, eh? After all, no-one who carries a gun has ever had it taken from them, or lost their temper and used it inappropriately. The stupid, it burns.
(Headline stolen from Misinformant in the comments on Digg)
I am already thoroughly bored of the Olympics, and I started off not caring much. But even my jaded eyes have to admit that this series of pictures of Phelps’ pipping some Serbian bloke by the narroest of margins is pretty impressive. Goes to show how thin the line is between gold and silver at the level these guys compete it. About a fingernail, this time.
Just finished off a mammoth round of pancakes for breakfast. I normally use Nigella’s recipe from, umm, one of her cookbooks but I can’t find the book at the moment and Google only turned up a recipe with American units in (cups? I, for one, do not have cups that come in a standard size! What about my holds-a-full-pint tea mug for example?).
Rather than mess around converting the units I went back to Google and found this recipe on the BBC which actually turned out nicer than the Nigella recipe so I’m noting it down here for future reference.
Put in a blender jug:
Whizz the blender. Then add
Whizz the blender thoroughly. Leave to stand for half an hour. Grease a frying pan with butter, pour batches from the blender, etc. I’m not going to tell you how to fry pancakes!
These quantities make about 12 thick pancakes or so if you make them 8cm across. One-and-a-half times these quantities (I generally only make pancakes for breakfast when I have hungover company, which dictates making them in industrial quantities) is about all you can make in a 1.5 litre blender jug.
This video is — to steal a phrase from Dave — hewn from raw awesome. Unfortunately the page has no description of what it is shot with but given that a normal lightning strike is all over in well under a second, it must have been capturing at over a thousand frames per second. Smells like an expensive camera to me. God knows how you calculate exposure!
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