Carl Jonard Technically Still Has a Blog

(This is an update to How to charge your iPhone 3G in the car.)
It looks like someone is finally working on an adapter to fix the iPhone 3G’s inability to charge using existing car interfaces. Unfortunately, they’re charging $40 for it, and the finished product won’t be out until September. I’m not sure this one [...]

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I did not know this. Apparently, the only footage we have of the Neal Armstrong moon landing (and the only version that the vast majority of the world has ever seen) is from a super-crappy copy that was converted for live television broadcast.
Wired: “One Giant Screwup for Mankind”:
Not long ago, Lebar learned why the footage [...]

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(This is an update to How to charge your iPhone 3G in the car.)
I just got the Griffin AutoPilot yesterday. I can confirm that it works fine with the iPhone 3G, despite putting up the “Airplane Mode” warning. I’ve noticed a barely-perceptible electronic whine that fades in and out when the iPhone is silent. It [...]

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This is just sad.
I’m seeing Ender’s war against the “buggers” in a whole new light now.
Orson Scott Card: “State job is not to redefine marriage“:
The first and greatest threat from court decisions in California and Massachusetts, giving legal recognition to “gay marriage,” is that it marks the end of democracy in America.
Because when government is [...]

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Random footage of Paris shot with the Fisher-Price PXL-2000, a 1987 toy camcorder that recorded video onto standard audio cassettes.
It looks like recovered footage from the future, as envisioned by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

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This one goes out to all the nerds out there. Moderated by Kevin “An Evening With” Smith.
Battlestar Galactica Panel – Comic Con 2008

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When I replaced my iPhone with the new iPhone 3G, I was disappointed to discover that it would no longer charge in my car. To make matters worse, the battery life of the iPhone 3G is significantly shorter than the previous iPhone.
I’m not the only one who’s had a problem with this, so I thought [...]

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The Apollo 8 mission traveled an estimated 504,006 nautical miles. To get an idea of how far that is, if you stretched out a string to that length, it would be long enough to reach from Earth to the Moon, wrap around 10 times, and return to Earth again.

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Atlanta and the Urban Future, Governing magazine:
(via Terminal Station via Creative Loafing via Pecanne Log)

“Old-timers are hopeful about what change means, because for the first time they’ve got a grocery store within walking distance and don’t have to take a bus five miles to get food,” says state Representative Stacey Abrams, a young African-American Democrat [...]

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Matthew Yglesias:
(via Talking Points Memo, re New York Times)
[McCain had] spent, several weeks with the main theme of his campaign being, quite literally, to criticize Barack Obama for not having been physically present in Iraq recently. This (of course) got Obama to go to Iraq, thus setting up a dilemma. Either Obama would survey the [...]

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