Strangely lovely…

Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele

Oil spill glows under UV light – Boing Boing

What happens if you put a UV lamp on a normal beach?

A couple of years ago Skype didn’t work in the UAE, then suddenly it did.

Two Mideast States Say They Will Block BlackBerry – NYTimes.com

Does this have an impact on people travelling there on business?

I’ve been trying all holiday to reproduce the antenna problem. Whenever I get 30 seconds I pull out the phone and hold it as described.

I’ve not seen a bar drop once.

“The paper suggested poor mobile networks may be the cause of the US reports of iPhone 4 antenna problems. It cited Amobil, a Norwegian mobile phone news site, as having ‘tested the iPhone 4 thoroughly, without finding any evidence that it is improperly constructed. All modern mobile phones have integrated antennas, and it is normal that they are affected by how the phone is held,’ VG said.”

AppleInsider | Norway’s largest paper: iPhone 4 Antennagate is a US problem

I’m now bored with what seems to me to be an issue with AT&T.

There has been far too much written about Apple and the iPhone 4; however this is the one article that’s worth reading.

“Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the iPhone including the initial one—has been greeted with rounds of articles crowing about what an arrogant, foolhardy mistake it is and how this will finally, finally, be the moment the emperor is revealed to have no clothes. And ultimately this is what’s so infuriating about Apple: that’s not what happens. Ever. The critics are eternally playing the part of Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, and Steve Jobs always yanks it away at the last second. Nobody talks about making a “Nexus One killer” or an “HP Slate killer” or a “Zune killer”; Apple’s consumer electronics products become the reference points for their fields. The Mac isn’t an exception here, either. While it’s by no means a market leader, Windows became far more Mac-like over the years than the Mac became Windows-like.”

The Emperor’s New Antenna.

At the age of twelve or thirteen I wrote letters to my grand-father every couple of months. I never wrote enough and I regret it but…

The main subject of discussion was Ayrton Senna. I always talked about the fashionable driver of the day. My grandfather was unchanging in his admiration for Senna.

As with almost everything, he was right and I was wrong. Top Gear reminded me of the fact. He would have enjoyed this week’s tribute. As an aside, he’d hate what Top Gear has become.

Cars, driving, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond – BBC Top Gear.

I remember watching the Monaco Grad Prix in disbelief. One handed Senna rewrote the book.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/50853/ayrton_senna_qualifying_monaco_91/