Yes, you could get an upgrade price on T-Mobile...but only if you had an individual plan. If you had a family plan, and wanted to upgrade one of your phones to a Nexus One, you had to pay full price for the unlocked phone.

Google Wave also relies on a lot of HTML5 features which aren't available in IE7 or IE8 (never mind IE6). The only reason that Wave appears to run in IE is that Google came up with a way to embed Chrome in the IE window. That means getting the end-user to install another add-in.

I'd been wondering why Mozilla rushed out an update so quickly after releasing 3.6.4, because they'd been testing that crash protection for months. I think I installed the first release candidate at the beginning of May, and they released several more candidates between that time and the final release.

Now we know: The type of user who is willing to beta-test a web browser is a lot less likely to play Farmville, or else has a super-fast computer that Farmville doesn't hang. Otherwise, this would have been caught a month ago.

On Twitter, the reader is the moderator. If someone you don't follow posts a useless comment, you'll never see it unless someone you do follow decides to be sadistic about it.

For that matter, what percentage of pages on the web are "interesting?"

If your reason for not liking Twitter is "I don't really care what you had for breakfast," the problem isn't Twitter - it's that you need to find some more interesting friends.

Just like a telephone, its usefulness depends on who you have on the other end of the line.

Wow...the contrast between the NASA article and the Telegraph article is amazing. Is anyone else reminded of SMBC's cartoon on science reporting?

Are they seriously trying to convince me that someone would want to pirate Uwe Boll's movies?

How have they missed the fact that "Shit My Dad Says" is the title of the source material? Complaining that CBS chose to "insert" the word into the title makes them look like the people who were horrified that New Line Cinema decided to use an obvious 9/11 reference in the sequel to "Fellowship of the Ring"..."The Two Towers."

(All that said, I could have sworn I read somewhere that CBS had retitled the TV show as "Stuff My Dad Says," but I guess I misremembered.)

I see that they're aiming for October 28. You'd think someone would have tried to aim the "Perfect 10" for a 10/10/10 release date.

It's always seemed like a bad idea to name anything after a figure whose claim to fame was that he ignored warnings against exceeding the tolerances of his vehicle, causing it to break up and kill him.

Remove the head or destroy the brain?

...I mean, the word "News" really is in scare quotes on their "More 'News' Here..." button. And that's considering that there's just one source, and British newspapers make things up.

Sometimes, lawsuits take a *long* time to get through the courts to the point where they're dismissed or resolved. Six years from incident to dismissal doesn't surprise me as much as I wish it did.

There's a book called "The True Stella Awards" by Randy Cassingham, which is full of documented court cases that waste time & money, set bad precedents, try to punish the wrong people, etc, and it's disheartening to see how long the process can take.