FAQ), so it's not really that cheap, but still, a $4 iPhone case where they normally go for the $20-30 range? Hard to beat. Cases don't seem too bad either.
No shipping to Canada sadly, would love to get a review unit up here to see what they're like (hint hint) :)
Macrumors has a good list of Requirements and Workarounds for the live Apple event that's happening today at 10. As you (as an apple fanboy) probably already know, this is the first time in ages that Apple has provided a live stream of a keynote, potentially putting an end to a fair chunk of the "live blogging" done by such sites as Engadget, GDGT, Gizmodo, etc. This isn't (yet) a crushing blow for it though because a) you can't scroll back a video to see what you've missed (well, you can, but not as easily as scrolling up a webpage to catch the highlights) and b) currently it's only streaming to apple devices (safari on OS/X and iOS devices).
Short story is there's not a simple hack like changing your browser ID string because the stream is using a technology called "live http streaming", which is a "standard" in that it's a standard, but only implemented so far in OS/X and iOS devices. So the live bloggers have another keynote at least.
Update: The workaround of using VLC seems to work nicely, just 'open network location' and paste in the URL. Right now the test URL is
http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8
You'll have to find the "real" URL for the keynote is though, probably on MacRumors or similar. I'll update here with the real URL when I find it.
Update: Here's a rebroadcast on ustream as well as a possible stream (doesn't work for me in VLC though). Best of luck to you guys though...
From Aryk - Unboxing and First Impressions With the Parrot AR.Drone.
WANT!
Interesting video from Kevin Tofel of GigaOm.com who switched to a Nexus 1 from an iPhone, to see the Flash experience on Android. The tl;dr version is sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and if your claim to fame is "user experience", I can understand why Apple would be against putting it in iOS (even if they could just magically snap their fingers and have it work as well as it does on Android).
Old but good - Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm. Maybe a bit slow to start, but quite amusing.
9 to 5 Mac has a roundup of rumors for The Music Event 2010. Short story: iPod Touches, new touch screen Nanos, maybe iTV, and a few others.
Link to sysinternals' awesome BlueScreen screensaver. Via this story on DailyWTF.
Digg.com updated to the new v4 of it's software, and the masses cried and whined. Luckily they have A List of Upcoming Changes which will hopefully satisfy people.
Update: Kevin Rose also talks about the company and changes.
Some interesting stuff in the details for webOS 2.0. Some interesting stuff for sure, but I'm wondering where it will appear, and if whatever device(s) it's on have a chance of gaining market share, with or without the most awesome UI ever. As we've seen time and time again, the best does not always "win" :)
Save The Words is a cool concept to help un-dumb-down the airwaves (as it were). You can pledge to adopt a forgotten or unloved word in the English language and pledge to use it and spread it. The "pick me" and "oh me me!" are cute too.
Fantastic re-imaginings of the posters for the Star Wars movies - Star Wars Prints by Andy Helms. Anyone thinking of my birthday yet? It's not too late for you to get me a set of these for my wall....
Not sure if you can actually put these in order, but Rolling Stone has tried to rank the top 10 Beatles songs of all time.
You don't have to be Star Wars nerd to see from the massive number of pictures that these lightsabers are built and crafted to be just gorgeous.
Neat post from slashdot on The Misleading World Of Atari 2600 Box Art.
Not sure if I'll use it, but it's nice to see via the Official Google Reader Blog that Google Reader now has a fullscreen mode, via 'f'.
A buddy of mine, brianpwins pointed me over to Mike Tyson's Push-up workout from the early 90s. A taste:
3pm: more ring work and 60 mins on the exercise bike (again working those huge legs for endurance) 5pm: 2000 sit-ups; 500-800 dips; 500 press-ups; 500 shrugs with a 30kg barbell and 10 mins of neck exercises 7pm: steak and pasta meal again with fruit juice (orange i think it was)
This guy must have been in insane good shape, I don't think I can do 800 dips in a week. Course, when your job is to be in shape, I guess doing nothing but eating and working out 7 days a week is the way to go :)
The Wilderness Downtown is a very cool HTML5 (ie: Chrome/FF/Safari only) experiment that has a neat setup that's a bit hard to describe. Just check it out.
According to the Ruby on Rails weblog - It's ready!
Congrats to the Rails team for the last 2 years of planning and hard work.
No, I don't know what to think either, or if I ever imagined all these words together and connected.
Speedsolving A Rubik's Cube While Skydiving In A Rubber Boat
Interesting new UI concept for tab management as Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 Introduces Panorama.