WordPress for iPhone…apparently not that far away

* Nanowire quantum dot counts electrons - nanotechweb.org – measuring current one electron at a time * Imaging using quantum-entangled photons – quantum entanglement stretches the brain. * Nanotube-coated pot boils water fast – the power of surface area. Maybe not great for cookware, but for water heaters?

Heading up later this week and needed a reminder – A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way » Blog Archive » Hiking on Lopez Island – the shark reef walk is still great and I want to hit Iceberg point again. This map provides some detail on finding the trails, but you really need the chamber handout. If I get one this week I will try to post a scanned copy of.

Core77 / design magazine + resource / post – I was an avid collector as a kid, these are just cool looking. Admire the innovation.

After activation woes, the experience has been pretty good. The things I like:

* The Exchange support. Wasn’t completely obvious how to enable. You have to delete your old imap/webdav email account info, and create a new Exchange account type, and turn on the cal and contact synching. It will wipe all your on-device cal and contact info so sync up first! Getting the entourage/ical sync disaster out of my config is a very good thing. * The App store. nice selection, a lot of good choices, and seems to work well. Apps I like so far: ** Urbanspoon. The interface is just cool ** GuitarToolkit. Chord reference and tuner, very nice ** Todo. Integrates nicely with RememberTheMilk for a complete app and website experience. Jott is great too with the nice voice interface but Todo wins for the rememberthemilk integration ** SmugShot. Replaces the iPhone camera and photo apps, and is integrated with SmugMug

Things that aren’t doing it for me:

* What is the new Contacts app for? Seems like a subset of the phone app * The Google app. Not really clear what value this adds beyond the existing search in Safari * Games. They look nice but the interface limitations of the device really hurt. I won’t get rid of my DS. * Still no cut and paste?? Am I missing this somewhere?

Car stereo stock radio fake-out - Instructables - DIY, How To, ride, music - The Instructables Book Contest Entry – put your crap OEM stereo faceplace over your cool aftermarket install. Awesome.

C-Thru Music home page – an interesting midi keyboard. way more natural key arrangement.

VMware shares plunge on CEO change, slowing growth – seems like a buying opportunity to me, it is hard to imagine a better systems software CEO than Paul Maritz.

Cow Backpacks Trap Methane Gas.

Adds a new fun element to cow tipping as well.

UPDATE: ok i am past that hurdle and my phone is doing a really slow re-sync. Progress.

MORE: what a freaking disaster. now itunes just crashed hard (on the mac). in the middle of a sync. not happy.

University System of Ohio :: Ohio GI Promise – nice work Ohio!

Who Embellishes Their National Championship Claims and Who Does Not : Fanblogs College Football Blog – the Buckeyes are pure, whereas UM takes every opportunity to inflate their history.

Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: SUNDAY, Jul. 6, 2008 - Brendan Emmett Quigley (“TREASURE ISLAND” ILLUSTRATOR, 1911 / TOWN AT THE EIGHTH MILE OF THE BOSTON MARATHON)

…Criminy. Look, I don’t mind stuff I don’t know (I see it every day), and I don’t really mind stuff I don’t know crossing other stuff I don’t know, but only if there’s some way for me to make a reasonable guess…Come on. That NW corner is just dickish.

I have to agree with the sentiment.