mcdonalds
Design
13,000 McDonald’s Locations Visualised As They Sink US Into Ocean
4:20AM Mark Wilson | No, this map isn’t charting swine influenza outbreaks but something far more deadly — all 13,000 “or so” McDonald’s restaurants in the US. How simultaneously gross and delicious. [Weather Sealed via Neatorama]
Design
McDonald’s Lamp Post Makes Me Doubt My Mental Sanity Even More
2:50AM Jesus Diaz | If I was walking through the streets to find this McDonald’s coffee-themed lamp post, three would be my thoughts: One, I shouldn’t have had that last Manhattan. Two, I need coffee. Three, I need way better coffee than McDonald’s. More »
Random Stuff
No Wonder Darth Vader Has Such A Bad Attitude
8:40AM Adam Frucci | It’s not that his soul has been overtaken with darkness, it’s that he’s just really gassy! Those movies make so much more sense now. [Copyranter]
Gadgets
The 1979 Klingon Happy Meal
8:00AM Jason Chen | You may think the weird Happy Meal bundling came during the ’80s, but McDonalds was already busy making sure kids got their fix of movie-promotion McNuggets by 1979. Today is a good day to supersize. More »
Science
McDonalds Menu Features NASA Lunar Footage, Chicken-Scented Tape Player
7:20AM Sean Fallon | Inside an abandoned McDonalds on the old Moffet Naval Airfield, one can find a group of dedicated digital archaeologists attempting to restore some 48000 lbs of 70mm tape featuring imagery from the lunar surface. More »
Random Stuff
A Tour of McDonald’s Horrifying Mechanized Meat Factories
7:36PM John Herrman | If you’re curious about large-scale meat-processing machinery and sanitation procedures, definitely watch this video. If you ever, ever want to eat at McDonald’s (or for that matter, beef) again, don’t.
Networks
AT&T <3’s Wi-Fi, Buys Wayport to Bring McDonald’s and Fancy Hotels Into the Fold
3:00AM Matt Buchanan | While having Wi-Fi everywhere is a great way to offload traffic from its 3G network, AT&T’s hard Wi-Fi push strikes me as a little anachronistic. Shouldn’t we be talking about super fast, ubiquitous 3G, 4G even? Its $US275 million pickup of Wi-Fi provider Wayport now gives AT&T customers Wi-Fi access at McDonald’s, Four Seasons, Marriott and Wyndham hotels, in addition to everyone’s standard Wi-Fi leeching spot, Starbucks.
Networks
12:30PM Nick Broughall | I haven’t eaten at McDonalds since July 2001. Let’s just say a Quarter Pounder meal didn’t agree with me for a few days. And while I probably still wouldn’t eat there, I might just start going into their “restaurants” to hang out like a 16 year old on school holidays (it’s the place to be, apparently) so I can start using their new free Wi-Fi networks.
While a number of McDonalds “restaurants” have had free Wi-Fi supplied by Telstra for a while now, they’re now planning on rolling out their own networks across a majority of their stores across the country. The rollout has already begun in NSW and the ACT, and will progress across the other states, with an expected completion date of late February 2009.
There’s no fudging around with logins or any need to actually buy anything (phew!), but there is a 50MB data limit, so no bittorrent for you. Hopefully we’ll see all the other fast food stores join McDonalds on the free Wi-Fi bandwagon.
[Free Wi-Fi - Thanks Nathan!] More »
McDonalds Rolling Out Free Wi-Fi Across The Country
12:30PM Nick Broughall | I haven’t eaten at McDonalds since July 2001. Let’s just say a Quarter Pounder meal didn’t agree with me for a few days. And while I probably still wouldn’t eat there, I might just start going into their “restaurants” to hang out like a 16 year old on school holidays (it’s the place to be, apparently) so I can start using their new free Wi-Fi networks.
While a number of McDonalds “restaurants” have had free Wi-Fi supplied by Telstra for a while now, they’re now planning on rolling out their own networks across a majority of their stores across the country. The rollout has already begun in NSW and the ACT, and will progress across the other states, with an expected completion date of late February 2009.
There’s no fudging around with logins or any need to actually buy anything (phew!), but there is a 50MB data limit, so no bittorrent for you. Hopefully we’ll see all the other fast food stores join McDonalds on the free Wi-Fi bandwagon.
[Free Wi-Fi - Thanks Nathan!] More »
Networks
Do You Want Wi-Fi with That? Zune Users Get Free Net Access at McDonalds
10:10PM Kit Eaton | Zune owners are getting free Wi-Fi access at McDonalds, as well as the 3.0 software today. It’s using the Wayport Wi-Fi system at about 10,000 stores, and as a Wayport spokesman puts it, it lets them “attract new customers whose digital lifestyle extends beyond their home and office.” Yep, out of the home and office…and into the burger joint. Great if you’ve got a Zune, and were jealous of the Starbucks/Apple Wi-Fi tie-up (which, and it may be just me, is a far “classier” deal, no?) [Zuneboards. Thanks Joel!] AU: Totally awesome if you happen to own a Zune and happen to live in the US – in other words, even if you do own a Zune (lucky you), this won’t be happening in Oz anytime soon… More »
