I’m George’s Blog

Tarp Surfing http://youtu.be/t6-vb20srZI (via @danielhirschman and @paul5kinner)

Is it just me that keeps trying to scroll the page in iBooks? #areweheadingbackwards

• There’s 100 Million iOS Devices Out There [Apple]
• Yahoo Surprises Slightly in 2Q Earnings, But Not on Revenues [BoomTown]
• Yahoo Q2 Earnings: Another Mediocre Quarter (YHOO)
• YAHOO EARNINGS PREVIEW: Wall Street Is Looking For A Continued Bounce Back In Display Ads (YHOO)
• AOL Hires Apple Vet To Re-Launch AOL Mail (AOL, AAPL)
• Google Is Now Speculating In The Energy Market! (GOOG, NEE)
• Yahoo’s 2Q Earnings Expected to Be Good–But Are Big Investors Getting Restless? [BoomTown]
• Guardian: Regulation of estate agents ruled out after OFT inquiry
• MacPaint Now A Museum Piece [Apple]
• Sony Explores Alternative to Split-Screen Multiplayer [Patent]

• Survey Reveals U.S. Tweets and Blogs More Than Any Other Nation
• Apple, Antennagate, and Why It’s Time to Move On [Apple]
• Apple’s Bluetooth Magic Desktop Trackpad Clears FCC [Magic Pad]
• Meet the Poor Saps who Filter the Horror Out of the Internet [Horror]
• Canon EOS 5D Mark II and another robot: “AT-AT day afternoon”
• Joel's DIY Dieter Rams Inspired Wireless Audio System
• Death Ray-theon: Anti-Aircraft Laser Unveiled
• Netflix is launching a streaming-only service in Canada this year.
• Rackspace’s Open Stack Makes Cloud Storage Personalized
• Murdoch’s First Newspaper Paywall Not Off To A Great Start
• SpaceShipTwo First Manned Flight Attached to WhiteKnightTwo [Image Cache]
• British Airways Mobile Apps are looking very smart
• Sky News / Yahoo: House price gains 'to be lost in months'
• Microsoft’s New Mobile OS Is Weak (MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)
• Easily Create Stunning Panoramic Images Without an Expensive Lens
• You Want My Personal Data? Reward Me for It [Voices]
• Taiwanese News Animated Recreation of Antennagate Saga
• Screenshot of Page 13 From the HTC Droid Eris User Manual
• Virus phone scam being run from call centres in India

Falling asleep on the train hoping I don’t fall asleep on my bike #jetlag #heatwave

Jet-lag space-cakes

‘pyramid display’ for creating objects that seem like they exist in three dimensional space: http://bit.ly/d4F6LM (via @benhanbury)

• Canon HDSLR internal mic wind noise? Not any more!
• Windows Phone 7: Don’t bother with this disaster
• Don’t Press That Strange Button In Tom Cruise’s House! [Buttons]
• Nobody Knows the Origin of the Biggest X-Ray Explosion Ever Detected [Astronomy]
• Microsoft’s Terapixel Project Creates Clearest, Biggest Night Sky Map Yet [Astronomy]
• Niche Pendants
• Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Suffers Record Collapse [Atmosphere]
• Yahoo: House prices 'to crash 20pc by 2012' as Budget bites, says Capital Economics

S’later bitches, thanks for another great Californian adventure