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Today is a sad day, George Carlin passed away this morning.

Here’s a small clip to remember him by
R.I.P. George you will be missed.

So the dust has settled and in a few weeks we will be able to get our hands on the new 3g iPhone. This past month the internet has been shouting about the $199 price like crazy, celebrating the price drop whenever the iPhone is mentioned, but what they don’t mention is that this price is only with a 2 year contract.

Apple Fanboy Christmas is here! That’s right Steve Jobs has just announced the new iPhone 2.0 at the World Wide Developers Conference at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. The new iPhone will include 3g network speeds, have metal buttons, a black plastic backing, it will be thinner at the edges, have flush headphone jack, feature improved audio, improved battery live which gets 5 hours talk time or 5-6 hours while browsing, and it also includes GPS. The iPhone 3g will be available in many new countries; most of South America, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czech, Switzerland, Leigch, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, and Turkey. 70 countries total. A new lower price was announced it will now be sold at $199 for the black 8g model and at $299 for the 16g model available in white. Available July 11.

T-Minus 30 minutes till Steve Job’s keynote speech at WWD2008. The keynote starts at 10am PDT. Here are a few links to catch it at! Rumors have it that the new phone will have 3g, video chat, gps, slimmer phone, better battery. Let’s see what Steve has to say!

Talking to family a few months ago I predicted that social networking will begin to evolve shortly into something pretty creepy, not that it isn’t already. I explained that soon you will be able to look at someone’s social networking page, whether it be Facebook, Myspace, or whatever, and see what they are doing, where they are doing it, and even watch them do it. This was shortly after I read about Yahoo’s upcoming Fire Eagle project and began thinking about what social networking will be like say next year or so. Believe it or not my prediction has already come true.

This years hottest venture has to be Twitter.com, you can’t visit a blog or turn on a podcast without reading or hearing about it, TWiT fans know what I’m talking about. The service has been going up and down lately which in turn has created even more buzz as it seems every site has to report on it going down. For the unenlightened I’m tempted to describe Twitter for you as a microblog, but if I hear that term again I’m gonna throw something, so I’ll describe it as basically a collection of Facebook status messages, you have the ability to follow people and read the posts they make throughout the day, in turn people can follow you and read yours. But this isn’t meant to be a post about what Twitter is, you can Google it if you want more

Podcasting is something that’s been around for awhile now and if you look hard enough there are some great podcasts out there. If you’ve never watched a podcast hopefully this list will help you to find one you’ll like, these are my favorite 5.

5. The Onion News Network

If you are looking for a great comedy podcast to start your day with look no further then the ONN. The Onion News Network from The Onion, everyone’s favorite fake newspaper, has made their hilariously brilliant Onion News Network videos available as a podcast. If you’re a fan of their faux news then you’ll love the ONN videos. One of my favorites is about a human head found in the a Burger King Whopper, check it out on the ONN’s website.

Over easter weekend my sister and I stopped at a McDonald’s restaurant in Romeoville, IL. When we walked in we were surprised to find this was no normal McDonald’s. Inside there were no menus glowing up overhead the cashier, instead were two large terminals with touchscreen displays and a hand sanitizer station between them.

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From Yahoo!