Breakfast Links: Elephants, South Park & Mytopia
Ok, this one isn’t quite an animal cam, but filmmaker John Downer stuck four elephants with some cameras and now you get to see some of the fruits of that labour. The really cute yet also feral fruits. If you check out the picture of the only cam they give you a view of - the trunk cam - they describe it as a “huge log concealing a camera which could be held in its trunk and dangled close to the ground” and when they say “could be held in it’s trunk” apparently they mean “is attached firmly to the tusk and trunk” and it’s really a huge log! Poor elephant! But lucky me. And you. (via)
And if that’s not enough internet entertainment for you now you can not only watch every episode of South Park online, but feel good about doing it legally! You can also create your own South Park avatar and I dunno do some other crap. But the videos are all up in there now. You can watch that latest episode with Britney where you can see those guys get too soap boxed and forget to be actually funny. Mmmmkay?
Finally, if you actually need to partake in your interweb fun you can check out Mytopia. The latest casual gaming site to raise all kinds of VC money for it’s public beta. This site distinguishes itself from some others by having only boring games (video poker and bingo? seriously? Ok… bingo actually rocked) but combining that with the ability to turn your credits or whatever into Amazon gift certificates and what not! At least that’s what cnet says, the store isn’t available yet. Now with that theme in mind, I think it’s a travesty, A TRAVESTY, that they don’t have some kind of online skeeball, I want to play some skeeball! And win some plastic trinkets! Or maybe a super ball. Yeah. And it threw a little social networking sauce on top. Oh well, go earn some money.
UPDATE: Just narrowly avoided an electropocalypse redux. Picked up the iPhone this morning and it wouldn’t turn on. Plugged it in and it said it was syncing and had a charge, but still no screen. Then the screen turned on with just the iPod controls frozen (on Run DMC if you must know). I tried holding the power button down but nothing. Thankfully it turns out there’s a hard reset for the iPhone which did the trick. PHEW. Losing the iMac is one thing, losing the iPhone?? I doubt I’d have survived.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:55 am
If your iPhone had gone south I doubt you would’ve been without it for long. The standard modus operandi for fixing iPhones at a NYC Apple Store appears to be to take it into the back room where the Apple Genius will tinker with it for a few minutes and if it’s something they can’t fix right off they’ll just pull a refurb from what they have on hand, swap your SIM over and voila, you have a fixed iPhone. Downtime consists of your time at the Apple Store and the time it takes for you to get home and resync.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am
sigh. That’d suck to get a refurb iPhone. Thankfully I was but a hard reset away from back. And the nice part is that the hard reset left all my stuff on so I didn’t have to resync or anything.
Although, I suppose, if there’s a problem with software (what with the SDK around the corner) I wonder if that’s going to not be so much feature. How will it deal with bad software conflicts?
March 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Maybe they’ll rework hard reset so that it leaves all of the Apple stuff alone and just kill the 3rd party apps and data. They need something like the Treo’s hard reset where you kill everything but the base system is pristine again. Losing data temporarily isn’t a huge deal with syncing working relatively well in this day and age.