Linked List: April 1, 2010

Thursday, 1 April 2010

The Macalope:

This is probably a good time to point out that this is all true. That might be confusing since it is April 1st, but everything in this article is 100 percent true, as hard as it is to believe. Well, except for the thing about Gruman winning steak knives.

Monolith Action Figure ★

“Properly proportioned to those in the movies 2001 and 2010 (1:4:9 - the squares of the first 3 integers).”

I’d buy it.

20 Things Doghouse Diaries Already Knew About Apple’s iPad ★

Prescient.

Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over’ ★

Why link (again) to this Onion article from January 2001? To point out that it was obvious all along how he was going to run the country into the ground.

JD Powers Customer Satisfaction Survey: All Smartphones Below Average ★

Except for one.

Apple: iPad-Ready Websites ★

Flash : HTML5 video :: Tommy Lee Jones : Will Smith

Glenn Fleishman on the Purported CDMA iPhone ★

Glenn Fleishman:

It makes more sense to me now that Apple would want a CDMA phone that it could sell for several years, upgrading all the while, rather than sitting out of that market, letting Google’s Android and potentially Windows Phone 7 Series dominate the CDMA networks.

Not to mention that in big markets like New York, people are not buying iPhones because of AT&T’s service. Anyway, if Apple pulls the trigger on this, I’ll bet it’ll be ready to go on sale at the traditional September iPod event.

Stephen Fry on the iPad for Time ★

Even cooler than getting a review unit: he got to spend an hour with Steve Jobs.

Gee, I wonder why Time got this sort of access but Newsweek didn’t?

Wolfram Alpha Lowers iPhone App Price, Will Give Refunds ★

Had been priced at $50; they’ve dropped the price all the way to $2. I’m not sure they were wrong to try premium pricing, but $50 was just way too high. Maybe $10 would have worked. (Like it or not, $10 is premium pricing in the App Store.)