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Tumblr (3.0; @dcharti)http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/<a href="http://twitter.com/ampersandranch/statuses/867444844">ampersandranch: I once left a 10-min VM of me singing along to the radio. Didn't realize that my phone hadn't hung up before I started. Epic Wail.</a>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43436699http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43436699Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:15:48 -0600<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/344826227/nintendo-says-wii-still-in-short-supply-this-christmas-we-call-them-out">Nintendo Says Wii Still in Short Supply This Christmas, We Call Them Out [Nintendo]</a>: <img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/07/iwata2_01.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" style="display:block"/>If you read what Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said about Wii shortages this holiday season and didn’t get angry, well, you’re not paying enough attention. Forbes paraphrases him as saying “demand…http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43420624http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43420624Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:07:56 -0600<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/jkOnTheRun/~3/344488465/pocket-inform-1.html">Pocket Informant for iPhone details emerge</a>: <div> <p>It’s no secret I have been a long fan of Pocket Informant for the Windows Mobile platform and when WebIS admitted there would be a version for the iPhone I was a happy camper.  Reader Hector Gomez…</p> </div>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43379196http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43379196Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:58:38 -0600<a href="http://147xxxx.tumblr.com/post/42952688">147xxxx - Redeye</a>: “I think this is the only social situation in which you can ask that question to someone you don’t know all that well.”http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43257594http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43257594Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:32:24 -0600<a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/ongoing-battle.html">An Ongoing Battle</a>: <a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_E8ZD85Wzu9E/SIT_z5q1L_I/AAAAAAAAAVk/IDrnv6fVODk/s1600-h/cat_vs_dog.jpg"><img style="margin:0px auto 10px;display:block;text-align:center" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_E8ZD85Wzu9E/SIT_z5q1L_I/AAAAAAAAAVk/IDrnv6fVODk/s400/cat_vs_dog.jpg" alt="" border="0"/></a>Because following another account on Twitter is something you must do with intent, we don’t see the same kind of spam normally associated with email—namely, lots of unsolicited Twitter updates…http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43257596http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43257596Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:32:24 -0600<a href="http://youlooknicetoday.com/blog/scottsimpson/a-ringtone-tragedy">A Ringtone Tragedy | You Look Nice Today</a>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43251987http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43251987Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:26:29 -0600<a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080722/p139#a080722p139">GigaOM Acquires jkOnTheRun (Om Malik/GigaOM)</a>: <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080722/p139#a080722p139" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border:none;padding:0;margin:0"/></a> Om Malik / <a href="http://gigaom.com/">GigaOM</a>:<br/><span style="font-size:1.3em"><b><a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/07/22/gigaom-acquires-jkontherun/">GigaOM Acquires jkOnTheRun</a></b></span>  — In the life of every company, there comes a time when it is faced with the choice of how to extend its reach: Either build a new…http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43204955http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/43204955Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:44:39 -0600<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ICanHasCheezburger/~3/340547680/">Depth perception kitteh…</a>: <div> <br/><p><br/><img src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-kitten-has-no-depth-perception.jpg" alt="cat"/></p> <p>Depth perception kitteh… …fails.</p> <p><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/25/fuxing-ur-perception-2/">mai percepshun iz fuxd.</a></p> <p>picture: B3R!. lol caption: <a href="http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/pictures-by-rComplex/">rComplex</a><a><br/></a></p> <p><a href="http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/default.aspx?tiid=448080&recap=1#step2"> » Recaption This</a></p> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/76557/"/><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/76557/"/><a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/76557/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/76557/"/></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/76557/"><img alt="" border="0" 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src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/ICanHasCheezburger?i=EOiJV8" border="0"/></a></p> <div> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ICanHasCheezburger?a=U86c0J"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ICanHasCheezburger?i=U86c0J" border="0"/></a> <a></a> </div>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42906261http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42906261Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:43:31 -0600<a href="http://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/862775647">gruber: They should combine the lines and show The Dark Knight to people waiting to buy iPhones.</a>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42835836http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42835836Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:49:34 -0600<a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080719/p1#a080719p1">There's Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones (David F. Gallagher/Bits)</a>: <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/theres-lots-of-money-in-those-old-iphones/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.techmeme.com/080719/i1.jpg"/></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080719/p1#a080719p1" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border:none;padding:0;margin:0"/></a> David F. Gallagher / <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/">Bits</a>:<br/><span style="font-size:1.3em"><b><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/theres-lots-of-money-in-those-old-iphones/">There’s Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones</a></b></span>  — I was walking by the lengthy iPhone line outside the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday when I heard…</p>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42825352http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42825352Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:47:00 -0600<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/339177253/man-electrocutes-pic.html">Man electrocutes pickle to demonstrate power of Christianity</a>: <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7JYIJPjpCFc&hl=en&fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed><br/><p>Gentleman proves Christianity is the one true religion by electrocuting a pickle. <em>(via</em> <a href="http://www.filledwithchocolatepudding.com/"><em>Filled with Chocolate Pudding!</em></a><em>)</em></p> <br style="clear:both"/><img alt="" style="border:0;height:1px;width:1px" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=6edb7d51c287fe7bc51cff65c6b13649" height="1" width="1"/><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=6edb7d51c287fe7bc51cff65c6b13649" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/boingboing/iBag?a=v69eMG"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/boingboing/iBag?i=v69eMG" border="0"/></a></p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/339177253" height="1" width="1"/>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42741365http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42741365Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:02:55 -0600<a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080716/p127#a080716p127">Apple passes Acer to become third largest U.S. PC vendor (AppleInsider)</a>: <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080716/p127#a080716p127" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border:none;padding:0;margin:0"/></a> <a href="http://appleinsider.com/">AppleInsider</a>:<br/><span style="font-size:1.3em"><b><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/16/apple_passes_acer_to_become_third_largest_u_s_pc_vendor.html">Apple passes Acer to become third largest U.S. PC vendor</a></b></span>  — Macs garnered an 8.5 percent share of the U.S. PC market during the second quarter of the year, pushing…http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42536775http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42536775Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:30:40 -0600<a href="http://www.iphonealley.com/news/atampt-employee-hands-out-anti-iphone-propeganda">AT&T Employee Hands Out Anti-iPhone Propeganda</a>: <p><img src="http://www.iphonealley.com/images/storyimages/att.jpg" align="right"/></p> <p>When we waited in line for the first iPhone outside our local AT&T store and the few times we talked to them beforehand, the staff there seemed very excited about it, and had nothing but good…</p>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42536776http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42536776Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:30:40 -0600<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/337542881/sega-says-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast">Sega Says the iPhone Is As Powerful As the Dreamcast [IPhone Apps]</a>: <img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/07/supermonkball.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/>Developers are just getting their heads around the concepts introduced by the iPhone, but so far they like what they see. EA said it’s <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5025931/the-iphone-is-more-powerful-than-the-ds-but-sucks-as-a-controller">more powerful than the DS</a>, and now Sega—the guys who…http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42536774http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42536774Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:30:39 -0600<a href="http://twitter.com/jadespace/statuses/859365415">jadespace: With only five people in front of me, I must decide the color of my new iPhone soon. Certainly, within the next hour, anyway.</a>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42381247http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42381247Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:20 -0600<a href="http://twitter.com/gruber/statuses/859303728">gruber: Can't wait until News Corp. buys Time-Warner + CBS and then apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com can become apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.fox.news.com.</a>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42381249http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42381249Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:20 -0600<a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/07/14/who-needs-e3-iphone-engraved-with-river-city-ransom/">Who needs E3? iPhone engraved with River City Ransom</a>: <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/category/fan-stuff/" rel="tag">Fan stuff</a></p> <div align="center"> <a href="http://www.geek.com/an-iphone-gets-laser-engraved-20080714/"><img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2008/07/rcriphone_main99.jpg" alt=""/></a><br/><div align="left"> <br/>When Sal Cangeloso of Geek.com had the chance to get his (no doubt super-expensive) iPhone engraved with a laser-etched design of his choice, he didn’t opt for…</div> </div>http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42351520http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42351520Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:54:25 -0600<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7506346.stm">Bush lifts offshore drilling ban</a>: President George W Bush lifts an executive ban on oil drilling in most US coastal waters, and urges Congress to follow suit.http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42234276http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42234276Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:53:42 -0600<a href="http://feeds.macosxhints.com/~r/macosxhints/recent/~3/335148357/article.php">Switch spaces via gestures on newer laptops</a>: If you find yourself switching Spaces frequently and use a laptop with multi-touch capability, you can use <a href="http://wcrawford.org/2008/02/28/everytime-i-think-about-you-i-touch-my-cell/">MultiClutch</a> to map gestures to Spaces commands. <br/><br/> First (and the order is important)…http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42213207http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42213207Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:36:56 -0600<a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/gmail-to-no-longer-auto-add-contacts.html">Gmail to No Longer Auto Add Contacts</a>: <blockquote>Shared by David Chartier <br/> Sweet Jesus, finally.</blockquote> Google has finally realized that <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/12/who-are-my-gmail-contacts.html">it’s a bad idea to automatically add</a> to the list of Gmail contacts all the people you’ve sent an email. An updated…http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42050685http://linkblog.davidchartier.com/post/42050685Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:18:31 -0600