Stickybuffalo.com

Remember the old stickybuffalo site, and how at one point it featured random selections from a database of quotes which someone had found interesting for one reason or another? Well, it did. (Unless history and/or my memory are misbehaving again.)

I’ve got my own quotes database, or at any rate a text file. I’m a big digital saver… I guess it’s better than hoarding physcal objects, unless one really wants to be on TV… anyway. Here are some selections to ornament stickybuffalo for a few days:

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wow, apple sold out its entire initial run of 600,000 iPhone 4′s on the first day and had to stop taking preorders. sounds pretty good on the face of it, but surely somebody can explain how it’s really a DISASTER…

“botched”… “a nightmare”… “glitches”… “snafus”… “struggles”… “a mess”…

oh noes! you mean there are people who weren’t able to buy a new iPhone yesterday, even though they can’t actually get one until next week anyway? well, they definitely won’t want one now. it’s all over for apple — better dump your stock while the dumpin’s good.

apple may have surpassed microsoft in market capitalization (whatever that means), but clearly the apple-doomsaying and hateration industry is bigger than ever, too. meanwhile, as AT&T’s brand is getting to be just about on par with BP’s, i’m beginning to see what apple gets out of that relationship: a reliable scapegoat for everything that goes, or is perceived as going, wrong with the iPhone. hence, while every headline above is about the preordering cockup, every story then goes on to explain how it’s really AT&T’s fault, and that if apple is guilty of anything it’s sticking with the forever-maligned carrier. i’m not defending AT&T, but it’s becoming clear to me that their cratering reputation has some short-term tactical advantages from apple’s standpoint.

I don’t even own an iPhone or even an iPod Touch yet. (Sigh.) But when I do, I’m sure to download the Bloom app.

This program allows you not only to create ambient music that sounds like Brian Eno. Since Eno, along with partner, Peter Chilvers, designed the program, you are essentially creating his ambient music. No matter how you set the parameters on this software, it sounds like Music for Airports or On Land. I can’t decide, in the big scheme, whether that’s really such a good thing, but for $3.99 I’ll give it a ride.