By Walker, ColumbusUnderground.com – July 23, 2010 at 10:45AM
CMH Gourmand has a great summertime post up on his blog featuring Thurn’s Specialty Meats: “If you are going to grill meat at some point this summer and you care about the person(s) you grill for then you need to make a trip the Thurn’s Specialty Meats – commonly know as Thurn’s. Most of us […]
By Matt Burns, TechCrunch – July 23, 2010 at 09:39AM
iPhone 4 owners? You may now order the free bumpers Apple promised everyone at the Antennagate press conference. It doesn’t have to be Apple’s option either. Apple enlisted the top mass-market case designers as well. You’ll be able to snag a free bumper from Bumper, Belkin, Griffin, Incase or Spek all the way through the end of September 2010. But you may not like the options. It’s probably not what you were expecting.
By MG Siegler, TechCrunch – July 23, 2010 at 05:50AM
Okay, after our last post on Darth Vader and the iPhone 4, we’re getting pinged way too fast with all the videos we left out but should have included. So behold: the best of the iPhone 4 videos.
If you have any others you know of, be sure to let us know and we’ll throw them in here.
By MG Siegler, TechCrunch – July 23, 2010 at 05:21AM
Regardless of what you think about the whole iPhone 4 antenna debate, there’s no denying that it’s fueling a massive amount of creativity on the Internet. We’ve got the iPhone 4 antenna song (which Apple even played at its press conference), the cute “End Call” antenna covering stickers, the College Humor take on the press conference, and, of course, the Taiwanese animation for Antennagate with light sabers.
The Taiwanese video features Bill Gates (or some other Microsoft guy) as Darth Vader. Vader also plays a pivotal role in new video today by Russell Arch. No, it’s not as good as the Taiwanese one (nor the iPhone vs. EVO videos), but it’s still pretty funny. It starts off slow, but it gets good at the end.
The choice lines:
See also: The Best Of The iPhone 4 Spoofs
By Gina Potthoff, Dispatch Latest Headlines – July 23, 2010 at 02:51AM
Boris Skopljak walked past the Apple Store, Gap, Starbucks and a dozen other shops at Easton Town Center yesterday morning and didn’t look in a single window.
By (author unknown), Groklaw NewsPicks – July 23, 2010 at 12:41AM
Wowza.
It’s been a while since we heard anything on the Mattel/MGA front. But the Ninth Circuit on Thursday handed down a stunning ruling, essentially reversing much of the December 2008 ruling that gave Mattel the rights to much of MGA’s Bratz products. Click here for the AP story; here for the Bloomberg story;
here for the opinion, written by Judge Alex Kozinski and joined by Judges Stephen Trott and Kim Wardlaw.
The ruling may force a retrial. – Ashby Jones, WSJ Law Blog
By (author unknown), Dispatch Latest Headlines – July 22, 2010 at 12:35PM
By Josh Weichhand, clusterflock – July 22, 2010 at 11:42AM
Bill Murray has given a rare interview with GQ’s Dan Fierman. The actor has developed a bit of notoriety for his slightly misanthropic attitudes towards his work and collaborators. As Fierman notes, “If you—movie director, journalist, dentist—want to speak to him, you don’t go through any gatekeeper. You leave a message on an 800 number. If Bill Murray wants to speak with you, he’ll call you back. If his three and a half decades in the public sphere have taught us anything about the 59-year-old actor, it’s that he simply does not give a good goddamn.”
This was my favorite moment in the exchange:
Last question. I have to know, because I love this story and want it to be true. There have been stories about you sneaking up behind people in New York City, covering their eyes with your hands, and saying: Guess who. And when they turn around, they see Bill Murray and hear the words “No one will ever believe you.”
[long pause] I know. I know, I know, I know. I’ve heard about that from a lot of people. A lot of people. I don’t know what to say. There’s probably a really appropriate thing to say. Something exactly and just perfectly right. [long beat, and then he breaks into a huge grin] But by God, it sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Just so crazy and unlikely and unusual?
By Adam Flaherty, MAKE – July 22, 2010 at 08:00AM
Have you ever been curious how a glow stick works or how they achieve all those wonderful colors? In this video from NurdRage you’ll learn what it takes to generate the chemical energy needed and how to harness it to create various colors in the spectrum. [via WonderHowTo]
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By Michael Arrington, TechCrunch – July 21, 2010 at 03:13PM
It was just over a year ago that Adeo Ressi launched the Founder Institute, a very early stage startup incubator. Since then they’ve expanded the program well beyond Silicon Valley.
Affiliated programs are now available in 11 cities around the world – with Houston opening up now. The Houston semester will be run locally by the Managing Partners of Enterprise Builders. Applications for the Houston program are due by August 22.
Applicants are required to take an aptitude test that ranks them against other applicants. The test scores IQ, aptitude and personality. In Silicon Valley, 79 of 250 applicants were ultimately approved, and 41 companies were formed.
Ressi says the test is very good at predicting high quality entrepreneurs. 27% of accepted entrepreneurs perform worse than expected in class. 57% perform as predicted, and 16% perform better than predicted.
Want to see where you rank as an entrepreneur? For the first time the Founder Institute is offering the test to anyone that wants to take it, and they’ll tell you how you ranked against other applicants.
Take the test here – apply now and the test will be sent out on August 3. The application takes a couple of minutes, the test about 40 minutes. I’ll be taking it and will post my results as well.
Update from Robin Wauters: in the interest of full disclosure, I’m one of the mentors for Founder Institute’s Fall 2010 Brussels program.
