If you’ve been waiting to buy some Apple stock …

Now might be a good time.  After a drop of about 40% over the past several months, shares rose about 6% today in anticipation of the SDK and international phone sales.   

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/02/28/apple-shares-jump-ahead-of-iphone-sdk-event-analysts-expect-support-for-exchange-notes-waiting-for-3g/?mod=yahoobarrons

RIAA is all for artists’ rights …

… as long as it doesn’t involve actually paying them for their work.  Apparently, they’ve been hording a huge chunk of the cash they’ve collected from suing kids and grandmas:

http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-keeps-settlement-money-080228/

RIAA claims they’re not suing for money, but for the principle.  There goes my warm and fuzzy feeling.

If she could turn back ta-oommm …

… she would probably look a little less like a wealthy divorcee from suburban Jersey.

They say at the end of all things, there will be the cockroaches, and Cher(-ilyn Sarkissian).  It’s nice to know the Armenians will outlive everyone else.

For a mere $150 you can see her in all her fabulousness at her new Vegas show - www.cher.com 

There’s something really odd about that concert logo … like she’s trading in sparkly sequined disco for …  Goth-fab (?) 

iPhone SDK delayed?

Rumours are spreading that the iPhone SDK, which Apple had previously announced would be released in late February, is going to be a few weeks late.  The SDK will allow 3rd party software developers to submit their own applications to Apple for distribution via iTunes.   Some truly innovative apps are available unofficially by “jailbreaking” the phone.  

The bottom line is, once the general public starts walking around with this stuff and showing it to their friends, it’s going to drive sales thru the roof. 

This is why I’m smitten with this device: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycIjt-ykWRo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x74rvGzfWYE

10 signs your pastor has lost it

You have to wonder what some of them were thinking as they were putting these signs up:

http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22326/41760

… and we’re off…

“Maalesh” is a term used by middle easterners when they have somehow “trespassed” against you, usually unknowingly.  It’s like saying “I know you’re miffed, but please be gracious and let this one slide”.   Americans living in Cairo heard this term thrown at them so often, they decided to create and sell t-shirts with the slogan.  It had the word “M A A L E S H” on the front, and “I am not a tourist!” on the back. 

American (miffed): “Hey buddy!   Your camel just crapped all over my Cadillac!”.

Egyptian (smiling):  “Maalesh, Mister!  Maalesh!”