Uncov is dirty

Uncov is Dirty

Recently Roy turned me onto Uncov. These guys are dirty.

Mahalo, therefore, is one of the seat-warmers who adds nothing to the conversation…and he cries while he masturbates because he will never be as good looking or as successful as Google. – Uncov

Dirty, dirty goodness well deserving of whatever piddly link juice I can muster.

links for 2007-08-27

Mobloggin' with an iPhone

Aaron Fulkerson

I’m attending the Office2.0Conference next week in San Francisco. It’s a good conference that always achieves innovative ways for participants to interact. I’ll actually be splitting my time between o2con and the Data Sharing Summit. My interest in the Data Sharing Summit (organized by Canter and Kaliya) should be clear based on mine and MindTouch’s interest in an Open Web Initiative.

Last year at the o2con we all got iPod Nanos that were preloaded with the conference agenda, speaker bios, etc. It was pretty useful and very cool. The iPhone this year totally took me by surprise. I didn't realize these were included until someone else pointed it out to me and shortly thereafter others in my office were asking to attend the conference, Dude, iPhones! WTF. I got home from work last Thursday and found an iPhone waiting for me. Wow, another surprise. I've been using the iPhone to moblog to Flickr and Facebook all weekend. I'll also moblog here once WordPress 2.2.3 becomes a one-click install from Dreamhost. Currently there is a known issue with the blog via email that was introduced in WordPress 2.2.2, which prevents the contents of the email being posted.

For the record, the iPhone is freaking amazing! I really didn't think I was going to be so stoked about it, but after using it all weekend I'm thoroughly impressed. Mostly it's my new ability to moblog that I like. Also, I'm more synched (contacts, calendar, etc) now that I was with my Blackberry, which I did not expect. Finally, The Google Maps application was enormously helpful all weekend too. My mother-in-law is in town and we went to Hollywood and then another day we did wine tasting in Temecula. The maps app was really helpful. However, there are some things that piss me off about the iPhone:

  • Copy/Paste. There is none. WTF. This is more useful on a small device than it is on a personal computer.
  • GPS. When the iPhone has this…wow. That will be an absolutely magical device. Will someone manufacture an add-on? Please?
  • EDGE network is pretty slow, but it actually doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would.

So, now knowing how cool the iPhone is would I have spent my own money to buy one? Hell no. Maybe if it had evdo and GPS.

Some iPhone resources I rustled up over the weekend.

Facevalue

There's a new boutique that opened downstairs of our building. I'm all about street level retail. It makes a downtown. However, in general, I don't dig the shi-shi boutiques for myself. However, these dudes are bad ass. The joint's called Facevalue. Check this post about throwing out your kids crocs for some Chucks. Must be inspired by Ashby because we had her in her Crocs when we went in. Well, we didn't throw out Ashby's celery crocs, which are replete with rubber spikes when her mother doesn't remove them, but we did add some bad ass pink Chucks to her wardrobe. Facevalue is "a boutique for all. Specializing in footware, accessories and apparel". My assessment, these guys rule. For the record, I wore Chucks almost exclusively from the 5th grade to 9th grade. At that time I could get them for $15 and no one wore them, but they were great skate shoes.

The dudes in Facevalue have reignited my interest in Converse. I saw this sweet pair of low cuts. The guys saw me eyeing them and said they were John Varvatos designed Jack Purcell's. Oh God, I thought, some lame overpaid American athlete inspiring jingoism and mindlessness. No, it's the  Badminton champ and a Detroit born minority designer. And they're cheap! Sweeet… I'll get them later. Facevalue is breaking me of my Birks only snobbism. If you're in Little Italy stop by the place.