This astounding breakthrough will revolutionize scientific sounding gobbledespeak for years to come...

I'm a frequent poster over at Brighthand and Macrumors (r0k).  In recent months, I've been trying to decide what phone will replace my aging BB 8830.  Will it be an iPhone 4?  Will it be some Android phone?  I stumbled across an ars article that says the future doesn't bode very well for Apple's iOS market share relative to Android if they don't get iPhone out from under At&t.

I must admit that if an iPhone were available on Verizon, I'd be done thinking and already have one by now... 

Have a suggestion?  Fire away in the comments...

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Macrumors is reporting that Apple has decided to honor the 40,000 orders for Mac Minis placed in China while its site showed the incorrect price.  That's 40,000 Mac Minis at 40% of retail.  How much are you willing to bet ebay doesn't get saturated with these things in the coming months?

I ran across a story over at Engadget about a realistic butterfly robot.  Apparently the thing is powered by batteries inside the lid of the jar.  Not enough is shown in the video to convince me this is real.  If they took off the lid and changed the batteries during the video I'd be more convinced.  Judge for yourself...

A hilarious product has been announced for all you iPhone 4 users out there who insist on "holding it wrong"...

Antenna aid is a strip of vinyl tape made to look like a band aid.  More info...

The arrest of Russian agents this past week got me nostalgic for the good old days of American Imperialism.  Wouldn't you know, Futurity.org was thinking about world domination (starting with Puerto Rico) as well.  Now you can see what the US flag would look like for any number of states up to 100.  Only megalomaniac patriots should proceed... 

Over at Engadget, I saw a new supersonic plane concept from Nasa.  It's not every day you see something this cool coming out of Nasa. 

 On July 27, 1990, HBO aired an episode of Ray Bradbury Theater that revolved around somebody trying to escape from all the noise of omnipresent electronic devices.  The episode was called "The Murderer".  It comes in 3 ten minute parts so it's a bit long but there are some pretty hilarious and prophetic scenes.  This topic came up over at Brighthand in a discussion about how the cell almost always rings when you're in the bathroom.  Thanks DTM for posting the link to this series of videos.  Enjoy (if you can)...

I received a link to this YouTube video in an email today. (Thanks, Muriel!)  As we continue to debate whether Robert Bobb should have total control over the Detroit Public schools, or whether Mayor Bing should have it, or whether school board members' resignations should be rescinded after inappropriate conduct, an interesting commentary on education came across on HBO Def Poetry Jam.   It's called "Can't Read" ...

As I was watching Obama's speech about firing McChrystal about half an hour ago, I noticed my computer monitor oscillating around in a circle on its stand as if somebody was driving a heavy truck in the aisle past my desk.  I overheard some coworkers talking about an earthquake and sure enough, we were feeling tremors in Detroit from a 5.5 quake up in Ottawa, Canada. 

More info at: earthquake.usgs.gov