iJustine Has Nice Apps
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Internet celebrity iJustine has five screens worth of apps on her iPhone, and it’s really something that you have to see to believe. I have only two screens worth of apps at the moment (Twitterrific, Facebook, AIM, Last.fm, Remote, Pandora, PhoneSaber, Tap Tap Revolution, and Recorder, in addition to the standard issue apps) and even I find that excessive at times. But five screens? I wouldn’t know where to look for anything. I really wouldn’t.
In other Apple news, a man said by one insider to be as demanding as iJustine’s hero Steve Jobs has been placed in charge of the company’s shaky MobileMe service. Apple vice president Eddy Cue is now heading up the MobileMe team, writes Apple Insider.
Those who are familiar with Cue know him for managing the iTunes Store to resounding global success, but he was also a force behind .Mac and the ever popular Apple Online Store. “It’s the not-sexy part of the company, but it’s the guts that make all of the sexy front ends actually work,” says von Rospach, who crossed paths with Cue during his years of managing Apple’s email lists.
Cue’s teams have long been self-contained, von Rospach adds, spending most of their time in “uncharted territory,” implementing technology that never existed before on large scales “under really scary conditions.” Over the years, he’s earned the respect of Steve Jobs by delivering projects on time, to specification, all while keeping “the darn thing(s) a secret” in the process.
As a MobileMe user, I can only hope that the faith this “insider” has in Cue will eventually be rewarded. MobileMe has run pretty flawlessly for me, but I know it’s probably only a matter of time before it once again crashes hardcore, as it did at launch. When it does crash again, I’ll be very interested to see how swiftly and how decisively Cue takes action.
“We’re not really showing any penis.” - Elizabeth Banks on Zack and Miri
Following up on his interview with Seth Rogen (previously mentioned here), Capone from Ain’t It Cool News has an interview with Elizabeth Banks, the other half of the titular dynamic duo from Kevin Smith’s next film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
My favorite quote from the piece once again brings up the asinine nature of the MPAA ratings board’s decision-making process:
Capone: This film smells a bit like a romance under all this flesh peddling.
EB: It’s very romantic. I mean, it’s uber-romantic, this movie. It’s what sold me on the movie. It’s why I can’t believe the MPAA is giving us so much shit, because really the movie has so much heart. Meanwhile Saw 2 is about people cutting off each other’s limbs and blood gushing everywhere is an R. We make this big, heartfelt movie where people happen to fuck each other, and we get an NC-17. I mean, we don’t even show dick. We’re not really showing any penis.
As you may recall, Zack and Miri won an appeal recently and will be rated R, after all. But that doesn’t make Banks’s point any less valid. We, in this country, are way too sensitive about sex and sexual imagery, and way too desensitized to violence. We are nation in love with war and gore and scared to death of love and lovemaking. What a sad state of affairs…
“Obama Said Knock You Out! I’m Gonna Knock You Out!”
Yesterday, somebody at the local Wal-Mart scrawled the words “Don’t Hold Your Breathe” [sic] on a slip of paper and stuck this note under the wiper of my friend Leslie’s car, just next to her Obama bumper sticker. I don’t think that Wal-Mart shopper had yet seen the photo I’ve included above, which is now making its way swiftly across the Internet. He looks like he’s one part Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (doesn’t it look like he’s about to lay the smack down on John McCain’s candy ass?) and one part L.L. Cool J ("Obama says knock you out!"). I would not be messing with this man if I were the vast right-wing global conspiracy. NosireeBob.
Because You Left - Lost Season Five Premiere
The fifth season premiere of everyone’s favorite television series, Lost, will be titled “Because You Left,” according to Entertainment Weekly columnist “Doc” Jeff Jensen. The premiere is expected to air at the end of January 2009, and should include at least two new characters, according to DarkUFO’s spoilers site.
If we could just skip this fall and the whole holiday season, I would be fine with that. Bring me January, and bring it to me now!
An Unhealthy Obsession With Her Mac (Video)
Meleah Rebeccah Hawthorne has an unhealthy obsession with her Mac, and now she’s sharing it with the whole world. Together with photographer Jen Rinaldi, Ms. Hawthorne has put together one of the funniest odes to Mac obsession that I have ever seen. My friend Leslie mentioned that this video might be coming soon during our trip down to Boston Media Makers a couple of weekends ago, and Tweeted about it yesterday, but today was the first time I was able to get a few minutes to check it out. And believe you me, it’s worth your time.
Set to the song “Happy Together,” the clip (available in Quicktime, if you can’t see the YouTube version above) is a montage of photographs featuring Meleah and her Mac sharing a candlelit dinner, among many other special moments.
If you like it, Digg it. Then, when you’re done watching, let us know in the comments what a video of you and one of your own obsessions might look like.
