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Steve’s Ice Cream
8:50AM Jesus Diaz | The Man is back, and he’s holding a cone: “I feel great. I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good. I’m eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream.” Hmmmm. Ice cream. [NYT]
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Ray Bradbury: “To Hell With The Internet!”
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Good old Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451, among other sci-fi classics) let loose with a little bit of the crazy when speaking of Yahoo! and the Internet as a whole. He classified the Internet as “meaningless” and “distracting.” More »
Business
Great Moments in Apple Analysis
5:40AM Jason Chen | Benjamin Reitzes of Barclays Capital drops this insightful load in a NYT piece on Apple strategy: More »
Software
Steve Ballmer Quote-O-Rama
1:59AM Brian Lam | Steve Ballmer is at D. He’s rather clear today, not so ranty. Here are his best quotes from the talk. More »
Online
Blockquote: ‘Suing your customers is a bad idea’
2:59AM Brian Lam | Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster: “They were afraid of Napster, they were afraid of iTunes; The business resists change…Basically the record industry sat around and tried to protect an old model; Yeah, suing your customer is a bad idea.” [All Things D] More »
Science
‘It’s Possible to Receive a Small and Quick Electrical Shock From Your Earbuds While Listening to iPod’
7:35PM John Herrman | From Apple’s support pages, a warning about potential static electricity buildup in earbuds, in which Apple has been reduced to explaining basic physics to its customers. [via Crave UK] More »
Phones
President Obama Is the New Inspector Gadget in Chief
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | Obama about his new Blackberry: “It’s like Inspector Gadget. If you touch it, it may blow up. The works. It turns into a car.” Funny. The same could be said about the economic crisis. [Jalopnik] More »
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Steve Jobs on the Stupidity of Living in the Past and Uncertaintly of the Future
8:09AM Brian Lam | With so much uncertainty around Apple and even Steve Jobs’ futures, I went back and found these words and philosophies of his on looking back and forward in one’s life. More »
Games
Apple Rep Declares the iPhone a Gaming ‘Console Experience’
4:15AM Gizmodo US Edition | Engadget’s secret sources report that Apple’s John Geleynse recently proclaimed the iPhone to be a “gaming console” and potentially a threat to the Nintendo DS. More »
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