Monday, August 15, 2005

Terrell Owens Needs To Get a Life



Watch any SportsCenter last week? Listened to any sports talk radio? Read any sports pages lately?

If you have, you've read all about Baby Terrell.

I just got done reading this editorial by Sports Illustrated's Peter King.

Awesome. Agree 100%. Snippet:

Go back to the Eagles on Wednesday, T.O., shut that massive piehole, play football and try to prove to some of us who think you're the worst kind of problem with American sports today that we're wrong. Please.


Gotta love it.

And if the Eagles don't waver here, I'll be a fan for life. This is what is wrong with pro sports.

-aB

Friday, August 12, 2005

Things We Miss...



CNet today (via Gizmodo) has a great list of tech things that they miss, and I must admit, I agree with almost all of them:

- Kozmo.com
This was a company ahead of its time. So was Webvan. The idea that you could go online and order up a frozen pizza, 6-pack and DVD was just about perfect. We had Kozmo in Atlanta when I lived there, and they practically saved my life when I got sick and needed some Pepto Bismol - fast.

(Aside - I had to go online to find out how to spell Pepto Bismol and found the Pepto-Bismol.com Web site. Very funny.)

- The Concorde
Never got to go faster than the speed of sound. Damn.

- Good Keyboards
Where is an originial IBM Model M Keyboard when you need one?

- The Newton
Yes, I am a dork. I have two. A MessagePad 110 and a MessagePad 2000. They made the move to Pittsburgh with me. Need to fire it up.

This story at CNet has the rest, compiled by Rafe Needleman. This should be a ongoing column!

-aB

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Apple Finally Gives In To a Two-Button Mouse. Sort of.



Many have long complained that Apple never had a piece of mouse hardware with more than one button. Ever since the Lisa (and my Apple Mouse that I installed on my Apple //e long ago), Apple's been a one-button mouse sort of company.

Until today. Apple today releases not a two-button mouse, but actually a four-button mouse. But you say, they're no visible buttons. Here's a snippet of how Apple's copywriters explain it:

Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze.

Spry and Mighty
In the beginning, there was one button. Then there were two. Then there were clickable scroll wheels and programmable toggles and solid-state slides. But nobody made a mouse as easy to use as your Mac. Until now. Mighty Mouse combines the capability of a multibutton mouse with Apple’s signature top-shell design for the best of both form and function. Use it any way you work: Stick with single-button simplicity or click with multibutton efficiency.


It's $49, which isn't bad. It's Windows compatible, too. That's nice. It has a cord. That's bad.

While I definitely want to go play with one (anyone to the Apple store for lunch?), I'm pretty happy with my cordless Apple Bluetooth mouse. But the minute they make a cordless of this puppy, I'll want one. Bad.

Read more about the Mighty Mouse here.

-aB