Daily Archives: June 21, 2010

FriendFeed: AT&T sales rep …

FriendFeed: AT&T sales rep just called, says I should be getting a confirmation email soon (today) that my #iPhone 4s have shipped. So I checked, and — yep — my card shows pending charges for both phones. Sales rep says it looks like my phones will arrive at the AT&T Store in time for launch day Thursday. YAY!

What’s more annoying than a vuvuzela?

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NPR’s Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me! has the answer. Fast forward to 5:50 in the clip below, then “wait wait” for the punch line at around the 7:10 mark. Heh. I’m not always a huge fan of Wait Wait, but that one made me laugh out loud in my car yesterday. UPDATE: And, speaking of vuvuzelas, here’s the trailer for… Read more »

Heckuva job, Barry?

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Although I don’t find much value in his overarching thesis that Barack Obama is just like Vladimir Putin, except less effective at being a thug, Michael Barone makes some concerning points about the oil spill response. I’d love to hear convincing rebuttals, if they exist. Barone: Obama’s decision to impose a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf…penalizes… Read more »