Jonathan Mills

iPhone 2.0 Worldwide Launch on June 9th | Gadget Lab from Wired.com:

A June 9 launch date for the iPhone 2? No surprises there, and now it looks like inside sources are confirming the June 9 date, which is also when Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is scheduled.
But Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz has got wind of the details of the launch, and his source tells him that the Second Coming will be a worldwide event — not just in the United States. He also claims that his snitch, “someone very, very close to the 3-G iPhone launch”, says that the current fixed pricing model will be discontinued in favor of a more Euro-friendly flexible price point, one that can shift subject to the markets and the whims of the telcos.
The last point concerns Spain. As we reported this morning, Telefónica will indeed carry the iPhone, and will be launching it along with its brand new Madrid megastore on June 18.

Via Wired.com

Everything you were afraid to ask about “Donnie Darko”

With the release of the new director’s cut, there are even more questions about the 2001 cult fave. Who’s the fat guy in the track suit? What’s with the 6-foot rabbit? We answer them all.

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So I had to call Time Warner Cable today, since I’m moving apartments at the end of the week, and needed my service transferred. In the process, I found it necessary to go to their website and review my subscribed services. Boy am I glad I did.

I found that I was not a Roadrunner subscriber, but actually an Earthlink subscriber. And that costs $5 more per month. For the same speed of service. (Standard RR is $39.95 if you already have digital cable, and I do.) And then I saw that there’s something called TURBO CHARGED ROADRUNNER. It’s just $9.95 more per month. BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE. If you talk to them long enough on the phone, they’ll eventually inform you that there’s a special on, whereby you get Turbo Charged RR for the same price as the standard service, $39.95/month, for 12 months.

So, in review, I cut my internet bill by $5 and nearly doubled my connection speed. Turbo RR is 10Mbps down, 512Kbps up. Yippie! DSL Reports confirms those numbers are pretty close…

Obama Wins Most Pledged Delegates, Returns To Iowa For Speech (VIDEO) - Politics on The Huffington Post

Sen. Barack Obama passed a major milestone on Tuesday night, winning a majority of the pledged delegates in the Democratic race for president, according to estimates from the Obama campaign and several news outlets.

Obama’s campaign also announced it had collected more than $31 million in April, “bringing his total amount raised so far this year to $167 million — a staggering total that suggests his vaunted fundraising machine continues to churn.”

YouTube - Primary Night in Raleigh, NC

Fantastic speech!