Bad Poetry - Good Times.

I'm a big fan of bad poetry. I enjoy writing poetry that deep down i know is aweful, but i don't think that should bar me from sharing or publishing it.

I find myself spending more and more time posting my really bad poems on verybadpoetry.com. It's starting to really eat into my productivity, but I don't care.

You can read random poems on the front page or you can browse through the archive and find some real gems. I joined the poet hall so you can find my aweful poems pretty easily.

Check it and publish something. It's cathartic.

HTC Touch-Flo

With the fever pitch building around the iPhone’s release in a few weeks, other manufacturers are trotting out interesting takes on the touch GUI. The LG Prada has already hit the streets and is most commonly pointed out as ripping off the iPhone, I think its closer to the Dulce and Gabana Razr. Last week videos of HTC’s touchable user interface started showing up on the net.

Instead of re-imagining how a phone should be, HTC basically combined some already available touch shortcuts and tied them to a slicker and easier to comprehend UI layout.

Since the first Palm devices started hitting the main stream you’ve been able to assign short cuts to simple motions of the stylus across the touch screen. For instance, dragging the stylus from the bottom of the screen to the top could open your calendar.

HTC has taken things further. Instead of a stylus the focus is on the finger, a hallmark of the iPhone philosophy. But that’s where the similarity seems to end. Dragging your finger from the bottom of the screen to the top appears to turn a cube below the screen and a separate set of functions is displayed.

I think it’s a good way to organize the many hats that smart phones wear. More interestingly this new GUI runs on top of a regular installation of Windows Mobile. HTC should just start distributing this as a skin for use on any Windows smart phone with a touch screen. It might bring a segment of the market that generally would avoid windows.

Excited digger already looking to trade in an iPhone

I just saw this post when i searched digg for cellphonetradins.com to see if anyone else had discovered it.

How to get an iPhone

You've got an iPod and a cell phone, trade them in for the cash to make your iPhone dreams come true.



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How to get an iPhone

Ok, so you want an iPhone but you’re afraid to take a risk. First of all, that's no way to live your life. If you like it, dive in. If you’re anything like me you've been reading the long awaited Apple Inc. iPhone rumors for more than two percent of what you can only hope will be the full length of your natural life.

So, that's settled. You're going to do something you want to do for once in your life. Now the only barriers are presented by the funds you have available. I'm going to let you in on a valuable secret: You have an iPod, you have a cell phone, when you get you're iphone you'll have two of each. Sure, you’re a modern money making plutocrat, but you don't really need two of each. You can sell both of them on eBay, but who wants that hassle?

I've found a place that will let you trade both of your soon to be redundant devices. Cellphonetradeins.com now allows you to trade in both at the same time! A few months back I traded in some old phones for some extra cash, I was really impressed. A check showed up in about 3 weeks. That's just enough time! If you do it today, you can pick up an iPhone and cash your check at the bank in the same errand.

Depending on what you've got to trade, you could pay the fee to break your existing contract or even buy an iPhone out-right with "free money".

I'm going to trade in my Nano today, ill let you know how it goes.

Amp'd: Where our revenue at?

The cellular MVNO geared toward "urban" users goes filed for bankruptcy protection early today. They will be restructuring and taking another crack at the bizarre marketing angle that they've been trashing away at for years.

In the interest of transparency, I should let all of my loyal readers know that I interviewed with some low level hire-ups at Amp'd to write copy for them. I was not hired. This should come as a clear warning to all of those other companies who have chosen not to hire me in the past. They sited "did not end enough sentences in prepositions" as the reason for passing me by.

iphone commercials

Official commercials from the folks at Apple Inc.

"How to"




"Calamari"



"Never Been"



You can also find these commercials on the apple site.

Plate Watch: VXXVXXV

Our new series on bizzare vanity plates continues with this baffeling entry from a Manydigitonian in the South Bay. I was emailed this photo last week, and I've been trying to figure it out. The best I can come up with is that this guy is a cardiologist and this is some crude representation of a human heart beat. The kind you might see on a linear heart monitor.

While driving into the office yesterday, i found myself pondering this plate mystery again when... low and behold the plate itself appeared before me on Crenshaw Blvd. in Torrance. I immediately veered off the road and onto the front lawn of a suburban house, dashing into the back yard I threw my self into there pool where I remained under water, searching for planted "bugs". I did not surface until I was sure that any communications device on my person would be destroyed. Unfortunately, this included my BB Pearl. The sacrifice was worth the feeling of security.