Geek Chic

Ok.  So because the 2nd Gen iPhones were so ‘affordable’ some developer out there made a completely frivolous show-off app called I Am Rich.  It costs the maximum application cost in the iTunes store ($999.99) and it’s only purpose is to let people know you have money to burn (when you start the application all it does is display a cheap looking glowing ruby).

I Am so totally Rich

Now it’s time for you to decide which is more ridiculous:

1. 8 people purchased this application — 6 from the US, 1 from France and 1 from Germany.

2. Apple was so offended by the application that they removed it from the store, even though it didn’t technically violate any terms of the iPhone Developer contract.

I’m still trying to decide myself.

Anyway, it’s gone now.  So all of you fat cats out there will have to sling your money at something else.  Too bad you didn’t get a change to download it in time.

And you thought you lost out when Apple pulled down the NetShare tethering app.

Read the full story on I Am Rich on the LA Times

I saw this on VSL yesterday and didn’t get a chance to fully appreciate it until today.  Wow.  So this guy Spencer Green basically created a satire of the entire movie industry by making a wikipedia based parallel universe of sites like IMDB.

The result is hilarious.  Check it out.

The Parallel Universe Film Guide

It’s fast becoming one of my favorite pastimes at work to browse through this and see if I can figure out which real movie they’re mocking (although films like ‘Big Ass Monkey’ and ‘Ow, That Shark Bites’ are pretty straightforward).

What’s also amazing is how insanely intricate the site is.  Stars and directors are cross-referenced.  Plot descriptions, movie quotes and fun facts are fully fleshed out.   This whole thing is slowly becoming its own comic book universe.

After our company has basically reduced our benefits package to approximately “you’re on your own, bitches” — it’s good to know there are still some viable 3rd party alternatives out there.

For example:

via FFFFound

thanks FFFFound

Word.

I know we’ve all heard the audio clip from our dearly indicted Senator Ted Stevens where he refers to the Internet as a series of tubes.  But until today I hadn’t heard the entire clip.

Wow.

First of all, I have absolutely no idea what point he’s trying to argue — his thesis is totally lost in all of his elderly technophobic blubbering.  Maybe it’s some anti-spam Senate bill?  Dunno.

It’s similar to what I imagine would happen if I sat my grandparents down and said to them ‘explain to me how you think the internet works and what you think you can do with it.’

This is who runs the federal government. A bunch of rich white guys who are too busy having their decks rebuilt by oil companies to take time to figure out how the internet works.

Good to know that, in the true spirit of America, it’s much more important to have a strong opinion when it comes to technology rahther than have any facts.

The brain is not particularly working on this lazy sunday evening, but I have just enough energy left to cherrypick and re-blog this cute little morsel:

from xkcd : http://xkcd.com/197/

via FFFFound