Apple Dreams And Other Stories We Didn’t Post


So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.

The Most Boring Apple Patent in the Land

Some Apple patents make us thrill at the possibilities of a better iTomorrow. Others about integrating speakers and clips on an iPod Nano. This, friends, is the latter. [MacRumors] [imgclear]

The Most Obvious Statistic in the US

DID YOU KNOW that New York and LA are home to more Top 500 Twitterers than any other city in the whole wide world? Did you further know that of course they do, that’s where famous self-promoters have lived for the last half-century at least? [The Atlantic] [imgclear]

The Most Sort-of-Interesting-But-Not-Reallyist Laser Projector

Look, good effort, Gdansk University of Technology student. We salute you and your laser projector. We salute all things laser! But this came out last year, so we’re not quite as into it as, say, this guy. [Hackaday]

Left Behind is our daily collection of chaff we didn’t think was quite good enough to post on its own, and why.


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