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Top ten overrated international travel destinations {Gadling}
Nov 3rd 2010 3:33PM I'd say I felt about the Blarney Castle as you did until forced to do it with relatives on a trip I arranged. After that I have taken it back. It's one of the few places where you can actually ascend to the upper floors of this type of structure, and see what those passages, stairs, walkways, etc, feel like from the inside.
As for kissing the stone, there are plenty of other unsanitary things to get sick from. None of my relatives got sick. I doubt the kind of contact most people make with it will cause them to catch anything If they aren't licking it.
But if you don't catch something from a piece of rock so many have had contact with, then does that mean it DID give you luck?
Concorde supersonic jet to find new home in London {Gadling}
Oct 13th 2010 2:24PM Also one on view at the Boeing Air & Space Museum in Seattle.
Engadget wins the People's Voice Webby in Consumer Electronics, and you can win a Droid Incredible! {Engadget}
May 4th 2010 4:31PM That is incredible! Your win, I mean.
Plus, we are not far enough into the robot apocalypse that a Droid would hurt me. (are we?)
Win a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad from TUAW {TUAW.com}
May 3rd 2010 6:04PM Me want!
Apple: We want our device back {TUAW.com}
Apr 20th 2010 2:32PM So. If someone offered YOU a found iPhone prototype FREE you'd say no? You'd question was it found? AFTER they told you a story about how it was found? You would suspect it was wiped because it was stolen, not because the guy didn't want any "secrets" on it found? You don't think if it was lost instead of stolen it would also be wiped? I'll bet you'd take it. If so $5000 or free are just price differences, not ethical superiority.
You don't think after all the "cease and desist" orders to the people on the web, that a LITTLE jab back at Apple is MAYBE not just OK, but overdue?
Real press doesn't COW to the people they cover. And saying "here's a prototype and it has a camera, and a bigger battery" is NOT revealing trade secrets.
If they SOLD it to HTC or Google, maybe, but "Gee, its flat" isn't a trade secret, particularly given the casing could well be a "potential" housing or "test" housing and not the product.
Plus with Apples track record for successful secrecy, what makes you think this letter from an Apple Exec (instead of a court order from their lawyers) doesn't reek of Apple seeking free publicity?
While I wouldn't be surprised to see the "kid" punished (and based on the posts and what he was doing, I say "kid" is fair) I also wouldn't be surprised if he's not getting a bonus or promotion either. How many Apple "rumors" make New York TImes news for Apple?
This reeks of sour grapes by people who were willing to pass on everything they heard, just not willing to pay for it, and upset someone else got the scoop. Now we have to make them look bad so our reader won't go to them instead of us.
This kind or response to what they did makes me think maybe I will.
Engadget's 6th birthday giveaway: 'Gadget of the Year' edition {Engadget}
Mar 5th 2010 11:42PM ME, ME, ME!
Engadget giveaway: win a huge box of stuff from Josh's office! {Engadget}
Mar 3rd 2010 11:42PM OK. I'll take out your trash.
Is this the Apple tablet? (update: new images) {Engadget}
Jan 27th 2010 11:08AM Just put this on my travel blog for my friends, but will share here for those following the frenzy of iTablet/iPad rumors:
Just woke up and in the middle of the night I have realized I have in front of me the last few hours of hope before Steve Jobs crushes it.
In the past I have discussed with a lot of my friends what I want from Apple, a SMALL computer for travel. This year all the rumors have narrowed it down to another big disappointment for me. The iPad or iTablet (to be announced in a few hours, in case you are one of the twelve people on the planet who has not heard) will be, according to virtually ALL rumors, like a “large iPod Touch flattened with a rolling pin” and it will “run iPhone software”.
Of course for me this is not IT. I’m sure this will be a cool media player/ebook reader/mobile gaming device. This will be great for people who want a bigger iPod touch or iPhone. But I want (and have wanted for years every since they killed off the 12 inch laptop they used to make), I REALLY want, a real computer running REAL computer software. The iPhone operating system is great for what it IS but it ISN’T OS X.
But it came to me that my last bit of hope is that the R&D staff at Apple realized that you could not make one device that is the be all and end all of mobile computing, and when confronted with too many compromises, the went down two paths. Thus the desire of Apple to own two trademarks (iPad and iTablet) was not a ploy by Apple to throw people off the trail, or a sign of Apple hedging their bets, but it instead represents the fact that they have come up with TWO “next big things”.
Don’t get me wrong, I still think they could have made one thing that did it all, but I’m willing to compromise more than Steve Jobs is. I’d be willing to have the device cost more and have dual processors and run iPhone software for battery life and OS X for power computing. I’d be willing for the screen to be a bit small for work, and the device a bit large for day to day carrying around. But I have specific needs and Apple is trying to create a “new category of device”. I will loose out.
So, in desperation I have grabbed onto the last logical hope I can muster, and I will enjoy it for a few hours before Steve Jobs crushes it like a bug again, for like the 5th year in a row.
What if they want iPad trademark for the large iPod touch (duly flattened by a rolling pin) and iTablet trademark for the best darned tablet computer ever? The iPad at 8 inches or so and really thin and light and fun (and cheap). The iTablet at nearer to 10 inches and maybe half the thickness of a Macbook Pro With virtually all the Macbook Pro features but minus a keyboard (plus a great new multi touch operating system) and minus an optical drive (but plus a much larger battery for real battery life)?
The latter would BE my fantasy device, and I am well aware it is wishful thinking. But I can now spend the last few hours fantasizing about just that. Then, at about 11 o’clock Pacific when Steve jobs wraps up his presentation, and everyone else is thinking about the great new thing, I will go back to trying to decide on wether to settle for a travel computer that is too big (in the 13 inch Macbook) and to cross the line and join the “hackintosh gang” and hack a netbook to run OS X.
And if someone comes out with a netbook size computer with a real processor and some power, Apple will lose my money.
South by Southeast: Hit and run Hanoi {Gadling}
Jan 20th 2010 2:35PM We just got back from S.E. Asia ourselves. It was great and I will be sure to follow this account to compare. We did not have quite as much time, so I'm sure we will see a lot we missed. For anyone interested our account is blogged at http://www.rubbercow.com/travel-log/ with pictures posted at http://www.trainyard.smugmug.com/
Have a good trip Jeremy!
Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part nine: win a Dualshock 3 Wireless controller for PS3! {Engadget}
Nov 27th 2009 8:19PM OK, but your new layout STILL sucks.
And thanks for putting the MUST SIGN IN thing in such small print that I have to wait until I get home to read it.
