Newton’s Lore

In part 3 of xkcd’s current story about a female uberhacker, Elaine visits Steve Jobs. You can start from part 1 here if you prefer.

Now available is a 3D Beers of the World Screensaver.Somewhere I must dig out those photos from WWDC in 2000(?) of a G4 Guinness beer tap with the Hypercard stack that allowed you to opt for a fast or a slow pour.

The Joy Of Tech is celebrating its 1000th comic on Monday (US time, so you’ll just have to wait if you’re in Oz There is going to be a giveaway apparently.

The ultimate iPod or iPhone anti-theft device. Warning, swallow drink before clicking link.

Remember that tomorrow (July 17th) is iCal Day (includes a hat for you to print and wear

The “Will it Blend” guy gets his hands on an iPhone.

Back home from X World 2007 in Sydney. Important things we learned:

• Canadians got their own keyboard layout because they pointed out Australians have one (I suspect the hand of Quinn in there somewhere)
• New Zealanders still don’t have their own keyboard layout
• Somewhere out there is a school still using several hundred eMates. They rang Apple to ask where they could get replacement batteries (hint, you can use AA’s)
• Canadian ice wine is yummy
• Don’t expect many (unhungover) people to turn up to your presentation in the morning after the conference dinner
• There are negative levels to the Capability Maturity Model
• A Canadian, an Iranian and 13 Australians walked into a German restaurant…
• Apple staff hate being asked about the iPhone
• The AUC’s DevWorld is meant to be happening around easter time 2008

Constructed at south park studio. For some reason I couldn’t grab the screen using command-shift-4 or -3, but had to use Preview’s File menu –>Grab –>Window command

Apple has made the iPhone release date (June 29th) and three iPhone ads available on its website, namely

• Never been an iPod
• How To (use an iPhone)
• Calamari (with “Pirates of the Caribbean” tie-in

I was looking at the NeoOffice “.odt” document icon today, and it includes a quote from BladeRunner:

NeoOffice bringing the power of OpenOffice.org to Mac OS X.

NeoOffice is distributed under the GNU General Public License. For more information contact the Free Software Foundation.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t belive. Attack s[hips on] fire off the shoulder [of Orion. I've ] watch C-Beams [glitter in the ] dark near the Tanh[auser gate].

All these moments [will be lost] in time like tears in [the rain].