Updated: The Unincredible iPhone

Now that the excruciatingly long wait for iPhone’s release is finally over, it turns out the gadget isn’t quite as cool and sleek as it should be with the kind of price tag it currently bears. I have to confess I don’t have one, so my views on what the iPhone is like are mostly based on what I’ve read other people write and whine about it.

iPhone’s main problem probably is that you can’t install programs of your own choosing on it, or the fact that there’s no 3G, which is pretty much a standard in today’s phones, instead of 3G the iPhone has EDGE – EDGE of course is a.k.a “2,5G” – the glorious iPhone doesn’t even have a proper browser, even then the browser is lacking java and flash support and to make matters worse you’re forced to have AT&T, the former Cingular, as your carrier, but hey it still has a pretty darn cool logo on the side of it, doesn’t it?

After the release of the iPhone there’s already been attempts to open the device and see what’s inside of it and well let’s just say that some attempts some attempts have been more successful than others, but that’s not all people who don’t want to spend 500$ nor 600$ on an iPhone have already found a way to transform their old Windows Mobiles into iPhones, or at least into something iPhonysh…

However over expensive the phone is in all likelihood hackers of various sorts are already all over their iPhones trying to figure out how to hack it in order to install third party applications on it and they’ll most likely find a way to do so sooner or later, sort of like they did with the Apple TV a while ago.

UPDATE:

Alright guys, what’s up? I’ve done quite a bit of googling and checked out reddit almost religiously, trying to find out whether someone has already come up with a heap of iPhone hacks, but I haven’t found any yet… I mean, come on, it took what like two hours for one person to singlehandedly find six security exploits in the Windozed version of Safari and now you can’t come up with a way to hack a phone with better looks than specs? I thought there was supposed to be a way where there was will and where there was no will there was always google, but it turns out that was just a cliché.

I do of course understand that you’re all excited about your new iPod replacements, but do try to get over the exhilaration and produce me something to jargonize about for Christ’s sake – yeah, that’s right there are no atheists, when the deprivation of stories to blog about strikes home.

Even the number of articles published after the iPhone’s release seem obnoxiously few in number, if compared to the number of articles published about it, before its release. This can only mean one thing, Apple must have paid for bloggers and creatures alike to write a bunch of articles featuring the iPhone to get it on the tip of everyone’s tongue whenever they got online and now that the overpriced iPod has been released there is no need for such wide scale blogger bribing as there used to be preceding the release. Even Microsoft apparently did some blogger bribing of their own with Vista, wouldn’t it be possible that Apple might have done so too?

The Arctic under invasion?

The Daily Mail reports that Russia is trying to obtain vast chunk of the Arctic – just in size the lump of land would be five times as big as Great Britain and it would approximately have twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia has. Russia’s grounds for the claim seem to derive from an allegation that a group of Russian scientists made after returning from their six-week mission on a nuclear ice-breaker. The allegation states that the 1220-mile long underwater Lomonosov Ridge is actually geologically linked to the Siberian continental platform and is even similar in its structure, even though a UN convention says none can claim jurisdiction over the Arctic seabed, because the geological structure doesn’t match the surrounding continental shelves.The reason why Russia most likely is interested in obtaining the part of the Arctic is owing to the fact that experts estimate the ridge has ten billion tons of gas and oil deposits and noteworthy sources of diamonds, gold, tin, manganese, nickel, lead and platinum. That would certainly sound like a nice boost to any country’s natural resources reserves, wouldn’t it?

Of course Russia has tried to obtain extra parts of the Arctic territory already in the past, so far without any luck, but this time Moscow is, according to one British diplomatic source, going to do a lot more serious submission to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Since Russia has already shown that it isn’t ashamed to use its oil reserves as a wild card when negotiating with its fellow European countries that are depending on Russia delivering them the Texas tea they need to keep their infrastructure running, it just makes me wonder just what kind of monopoly position Russia might get, if it manages to get gargantuan amounts of oil and gas, which we’ll most likely be desperate for when our other oil sources begin to run out.

What ever Russia is planning to do it seems to be rather unlikely that Russia will gain any extra parts of the Arctic, since then Canada could use the same argument and say the ridge is part of the Canadian shelf and even claim Russia and the entire Eurasia as its own.

Anyway, shouldn’t we be trying to search more environmentally friendly, energy efficient and renewable alternatives to fossil fuels rather than trying to find new sources of them?

T-Day

Ever pondered, why it’s always so damn impressive, when a hitchhiker, who has travelled through thousands and thousands of miles getting robbed, harassed, assailed and forced to buy drugs after reaching Morocco’s borders still manages to know exactly where his towel is?

As a tribute to the late author, Douglas Adams – also known as the frood who always knew where his towel was – Towel Day is celebrated every 25th of May. Towels are toted around internationally by fans – showing respect to the author’s imaginativeness and the ability to break the laws of physics and getting away with it.

The now an annual-event was first held in 2001 – two weeks after the author’s passing away – inspired by an article posted on Binary Freedom. The commemoration now even has a website completely dedicated to it, giving information when, how and where to show your fellow hitchhikerness.

Todays politicians

I remember growing up in a world, where politicians promoted themselves for example by promising more jobs, cutting down taxes or by promising to stop the society’s growing inequalization, which by the way doesn’t really mean anything, but if you try to state anything of the differing opinion, you’ll find yourself in a world of deep trouble…

Today, you can get away with promising to give a blowjob for all potential voters, who askew for one, to set the record straight you can even get away with promising to give 40 000 blowjobs to anyone requesting – as one Belgian NEE party’s senate candidate is doing on her site. I wish I knew where or when it all started going wrong, I really, really do…

Nowadays, I guess, even I would be considered old-fashioned for thinking that promising blowjobs for votes is a bit abstruse – and just for the record, I’m a sixteen-year-old – but that is just the way the world works, right?