more to come on paris hilton, but the big story tonite…

Julie used an emoticon.

 

And just ahead, lolcats are taking over the universe.

 

i get mysty

 

 Avi has a post about urban exploration that is making me all mysty eyed.

Many of those photos look like myst worlds brought to life:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See?

save your money, buy a nokia tracfone

He will probably arouse the wrath of Jobsians everywhere, but Daryl D says after two-plus weeks of iPhonage,

The $600 I spent on this device was probably the biggest waste of money since purchasing the first generation Treo.

Now, I’m not one to hate on Apple, in fact I wish I owned one… of their computers. Instead of taking Apple to task, I might ask Daryl and others who, as he admits…

 

sat in long lines for hours waiting to get our hands on a device that was supposed to revolutionize the cell phone industry.

…one simple question. Why?

 

His list of complaints,

• there were several areas that the iPhone did not work in: many parts of New Mexico; various areas around Oklahoma City; parts of Southern Missouri; and the service (including data) in Northern New Jersey has been very inconsistent.
• I found the speeds in most areas that I used the phone to be very sluggish. In the middle of Ridgewood, New Jersey, it took almost thirty seconds to display the Blogcritics.org website.
• (in reference to typing via the touch screen keyboard) I’ve become so frustrated writing emails that I decided that it’s not worth the pain caused by the iPhone to write any more. It has been even worse opening my emails that have Word attachments since the iPhone doesn’t have software to edit Microsoft Word documents.

makes me wonder: What did you expect? Gizmodo and others told you to wait, though that was after the fact. Yet, did you really need their reviews? Could not one have intuited the presence all of these technological gaps?

Anyway, Daryl has given serious thought to dropping the phone service from his iDevice, which would render it, in effect

an 8 GB iPod with Wi-Fi features

Which is why I’ll probably spend less than two hundred dollars on an iPod pretty soon, and stick with my nokia throwaway phone, which lets me talk whenever and wherever I want. And yes, I did drive (almost) across the country with it and had no trouble finding service. I’ll probably conduct a similar test in a less than two months.

 

Thanks to Will for the heads up.