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.

Plate Watch: SADNESS

The Los Angeles 'plate watch' continues. Many digits is quickly becoming a collection of bizzare commuter sightings in Southern California.

This was sent by a ManyDigitonian in Santa Monica. Admitedly, I would be sad if i were commuting in Santa Monica in my aging Cherokee.

Pop A baloon with no more than the weight of your virtual presence.

Bill Shackelford has wowed me for the first time. Admittedly, i had never heard of him or his domain before today.

He has posted an interesting web/art project. For the rest of the day, each time some one visits the site, the baloon is filled with a little bit more air. It's going to blow any minute now, so get your visits in now and make them count.




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Throwthatphone.com gets corp. sponsorship

As in Fight Club, when Jack black mails his boss at the "major car company" into becoming the unwitting benefactor of project mayhem- project throw that phone now has sponsorship.

Flipswap Inc. a small start-up dealing in the trade of used cell phones has stepped up as the first sponsor.

Throwthatphone.com will be sending an athlete to the international cell phone throwing competition in Finland this summer. Throwthatphone will be accepting pledges for each meter that the athlete throws the phone will be donated to finding a cure for breast cancer.