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Atlanta, an Olympic City 15 Years Later {Gadling}
Jul 31st 2011 11:17AM Wow. Has this blogger even BEEN to Atlanta before / after / during the olympics? Honestly, I don't believe so. Let me give you the real story.
Atlanta was beautiful during the olympics. The city was packed with people, and everything was clean. "Underground Atlanta" was a shopping district that was revived for the olympics, and it was a hot hangout spot during the events.
Now fast forward to today... The neighborhood with the coke museum and aquarium, which the author references, is covered with homeless people and litter. It's literally a pretty unsafe place to hang out. The "underground atlanta" shopping mall is in complete disrepair. Most of the cute restaurants that used to be there are now closed down. Instead, this "underground" mall conveniently houses many homeless.
As far as Buckhead being nice, it certainly is, but to me that's an example of people leaving the city of Atlanta because of how bad it has gotten, and turning a cute suburb into its own mini-city. People in the city have moved farther and farther away from the city center, giving Atlanta some of the worst traffic in the USA.
Seriously - there is nothing charming about Atlanta anymore. If you're going to visit, you can certainly have a nice weekend there w/ a few tourist attractions (coke museum, MLK's old house, aquarium, etc), but you won't want to spend much time in the city - that's for sure.
I think it's almost funny that the author highlights how the city has progressed since the olympics, because in the opinion of myself and most of my peers, the olympics was the turning point for the city, and it has been worse off ever since.
Review and first look: Monsoon Multimedia Vulkano Deluxe Pro {Gadling}
Aug 30th 2010 5:38PM Am I stupid? I don't get it... It has a "DVR function" but you are plugging it into your TiVo... so you have two DVRs? I'm not getting it. Their website says it has the features of a TiVo already, but there doesn't appear to be a cablecard slot. :-(
Worms iPhone unearths lower price {Joystiq}
Aug 3rd 2010 11:11AM I'm a huge Worms fan... but they really haven't done enough to update this title. I'm guessing this price drop is a last minute attempt to sell some copies before they announce a newer version of Worms, which I'll likely end up buying....
Apple Battery Charger gets official: a battery charger, only you know, better (update: hands-on) {Engadget}
Jul 27th 2010 3:17PM Will this recharge my rayovac hybrids? I love those.
Cathay Pacific bringing 50Mbps WiFi, live TV and in-flight calling to fleet {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2010 9:19PM Fascinating stuff - what is the technology for this? On US domestic carriers, they communicate with the ground and use typical cell 3G service for wifi... this is overseas...
Scottevest's Carry-On Coat houses all of your portable electronics, stolen hotel shampoo bottles {Engadget}
Jul 4th 2010 2:49PM I mean they're not really stolen. They give you the shampoo bottles and they don't re-use them with the next guests!
Live from Verizon's Motorola Droid X event! {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2010 2:15PM Very cool phone - very lame event. Was this necessary? Google announced this all at I/O!
Nokia N8 to be final Symbian N Series device, all MeeGo from here on out {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2010 10:02AM @huzzlehoff
This is great news - I actually prefer meego to android.
HTC has fix in the works for EVO 4G screen sensitivity; separation problems are minor {Engadget}
Jun 18th 2010 11:53PM @bkedersha
To fix this, you need to make sure you do not have a numeric passlock. I know it sounds weird, but this is the fix for it. Bizarre. My gf was having this problem. anyhow, she took it back - the glass was separating, the infinite boot loops in the beginning, and the awful battery life. She wanted to return it within the 30 day period.
HTC has fix in the works for EVO 4G screen sensitivity; separation problems are minor {Engadget}
Jun 18th 2010 11:35PM my gf took her evo back....
