I’m George’s Blog

• Light My Fire Firesteel
• Firefox Home Enters the App Store, Connects Your PC’s Browser to Your iPhone’s
• MySpace Resuscitated With UI and Social Messaging Makeover?
• iPhone 4 insurance: £5.99/month from Protect Your Bubble
• Nokia’s Refusal To Buy Palm May Go Down As One Of The Dumbest Moves In Handset History (NOK, HPQ)
• Here’s What’s Really Going On In The VC Industry, And What It Means For Startups
• Pimp my PUGG (clock)!
• Malaria Through Millennia
• Lockheed Using Gravity to Spot ‘Subterranean Threats’ [Gravity]
• Recycled Island: A Colorful Paradise Made From Garbage [Island]
• Big mystery holding back practical superconductors may have been solved [Mad Science]
• Star Wars: Battle For Hoth Is A Star Wars Tower Defense iPhone Game [IphoneApps]
• Twitter Listens To Our Demands! New Follower Notification Emails Now Include More Info
• Official: The Vatican Gives You Cancer
• “Something Big, Or At Least Biggish, Is Going Down Tomorrow,” John Gruber Predicts (AAPL)

• Apple Tried To Buy Palm Before HP Won The Bidding War — And RIM Completely Blew The Deal (AAPL, RIMM, HPQ, GOOG)
• Hey, Look, It’s The Line To Buy A Droid X! (MOT, VZ, GOOG, AAPL)
• Motorola Is Willing To Break the Phone They Just Sold You [Rant]
• The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Shooting Low Key
• Zero Hedge: China Has Been Covertly Funding A Housing Bubble Five Times Larger Than That Of The US: 65 Million Vacant Homes Uncovered
• Cupcake lights
• Dailymail: Degree courses could be cut to two years in cost-cutting higher education overhaul
• Now Even The Fed Thinks The Economy’s Going To The Dogs
• Need an Excuse to Watch Aliens Again? [Movies]
• Guardian: Inflation leaves savers struggling to keep up
• Altered Animals: Creatures With Bonus Features [Voices]
• Help! Teens Are Using Digital Drugs to Get High [Wtf]
• Fight Weeds Like Superman: Flying Horizontally, Powered By the Sun [Inventions]
• Initial Reports: Software Update Doesn’t Fix iPhone 4 Antenna Problem, As Expected [Iphone 4]
• iOS 4.1 Beta Is Available Now For Developers [Ios 4.1]
• Helsing’s Fire For iPhone: The Best Sassy Victorian Puzzler In the App Store [IphoneApps]
• Buro by Keith Tay
• Google Quietly Testing Multiple Account Log-Ins [Google]
• Eaglecreek Packing Cubes
• Why I Stalk a Sexy Black Woman on Twitter (And Why You Should, Too) [Culture]

• Track Federal Spending on New, $8 Million IT Dashboard and App
• Tokyo Subway Sandwich Shop Grows Lettuce In-Store
• Mortgage Strategy: Landlords struggling to cover mortgage payments
• Watch Out Apple, Facebook Wants To Cook Your Golden Goose (Yours Too, Google) (AAPL, GOOG)
• The 12th Russian Spy Worked at Microsoft [Spies]
• You Can’t Appreciate How Completely Apple Has Humiliated The Cellphone Industry Until You See These Charts
• Over three years, the recording industry spent ~$64 million on legal fees recovering about $1.6 million in damages f…
• You Won’t Have Any Idea How Badly Our Stock Market Is Doing Until You Look At These Charts
• New Fox News App Shows Big Media Investing In Google’s Android (NWS)
• Independent: Britain’s debt: The untold story
• Scan Your Old Negatives DIY Style, Using a DSLR and Toilet Paper Rolls [DIY]

Go Joe, Go Joe, Go Joe! I’m just about to go to bed but nice to see all the folks cheering on the #drawathon Nearly there!

• Plywood Wall Clock
• Your Cheery Thought For The Day
• Sorry, But This Whole iPhone 4 Antenna Thing Is A Non-Issue And Will Blow Over (AAPL)
• Aerial Capture Camera
• Three Things Google Can Learn From Apple
• Windows XP Closer to Immortality [Digital Daily]
• Wait–has anyone ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED reception issues with the iPhone 4? We get that this bar-display thing is emba…
• RICS: RICS Housing Market Survey June 2010
• The Daily Telegraph: UK house prices not set to recover for another ten years, says PWC
• Oh no!  Google is doing focus-group research into social networking.
• BBC: Time to Get Real
• Beers With: Edward Hopper
• How To Skip The Android Tutorial [Android]
• EXIFext by Friedrich Preuß
• It's a Diffrient World: Humanscale Diffrient World Task Chair
• iPhone Developer: Our Photo App Generated $253,000 In Sales In One Month (AAPL)
• Google Translate Bar by Chris Gordon
• Mirrored Treehouse Hotel Makes You Invisible in the Forest [Hotels]
• Fiat 500 Returns To Its 2-Cylinder Roots
• Heininger Commutemate Instacloth

• Google’s New “App Inventor” Tool Means EVERYONE Can Make Android Apps (GOOG, AAPL)
• A Quick Primer On Why Everyone Thinks The Economy Is Headed Into The Toilet Again
• Apple Acknowledges Faulty Time Capsules—Travels Back to 2008 to Make Repairs [Apple]
• Consumer Group Sniffs Congresswoman’s Open Wi-Fi [Voices]

• Judge Slashes "Unconstitutionally Excessive" File Sharing Fine By 90% [Filesharing]

• How to Access Internet With the iPad 3G Without Paying Extra [IPad 3G]
• Access Hulu from Outside the U.S. Without a Proxy Server [Web Filtering]
• HDcam iPad App Turns Your iPhone Into A Wireless Camera [IPad Apps]
• Blazing UFO Causes Chinese Airport Closure [Ufo]
• YouTube Adds Support for High-Quality 4K Videos [YouTube]
• Whoa! YouTube Now Supports 4096p Video
• BetterSource by Carlos Palol
• LifeGrip Solves iPhone 4 Death Grip for Free
• The Mighty Speaker: Altec Lansing Orbit Speaker Unplggd Test Lab
• The Best and Strangest Views of Solar Eclipses from Space [Astronomy]
• Things That Are Wrong Part 59433

• A Quick Primer On Why Everyone Thinks The Economy Is Headed Into The Toilet Again
• Is This the Next iPod Shuffle? [Rumor]
• Yahoo Hands Off Real Estate Listings To Zillow
• Lock Up Your Routers—Google Restarts Street View Fleet [Google]
• Pirate economics
• MobileMe Calendar Beta: A Brief Look At What’s New
• Deer Hunter 3D for iPad Hits the Mark on the App Store
• Telescopic Eye Implants Magnify Life, Help People See Again [Telescopiceye]
• Exclusive: Yahoo Makes Another Major Product Exec Hire From Microsoft [BoomTown]
• By the way, Facebook for iPhone has 57.8 million monthly active users. (Versus 8,810 for the Microsoft Kin.)
• Reuters: Bank keeps interest rates at 0.5 percent
• iPhone Developer Brags: $1,400 In iAd Revenue In One Day At $150 eCPM (AAPL, GOOG)
• New Proton Size Breaks Laws of Physics [Science]
• Here’s Who Owns The iPad: 40 Year-Old Men [CHARTS] (AAPL, YHOO)
• The Pirate Bay Hacked, 4 Million Usernames, Email Addresses and IPs Compromised [Security]
• When You Spill Oil In Water Perhaps The Things In The Water Evolve

• "Good news! Someone at Yahoo finally figured out that they've been doing M&A the wrong way." – @Lessien
• What Would Happen If the Earth Stopped Spinning? (This) [Science]
• Yahoo Could Be A Big Winner In The Battle For Developers
• DIY: How To Create Your Own White Box for Under $10
• Legal challenge to Digital Act
• You Can Get Flash On Your Jailbroken iPad Right Now [Flash]