Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D is a game for the iPhone. For the iPhone? For the iPhone. Holy cow, it’s like they made the Nintendo Wii mobile. The new iPhone comes out this Friday for $199. I still can’t afford it, but with its business AND gaming features, well… I think if you clicked through and watched that video, you just saw the reason why this thing has won. A list:
The iPhone is a great iPod.
The phone software is the most thoughtful and user friendly I’ve ever seen…
Robust planning calendar
Turn by turn directions with GPS
The internet anywhere you’ve got a 3G cell connection + a great browser to use that internet
Access to the entire iTunes store, anywhere.
Syncing with your computer lines up your contacts, schedule, and songs that you purchased on the go.
Now I want to see some company actually compete with this thing so the price will come down further.
Coldplay’s new album “Viva La Vida” has a song called Strawberry Swing.
People moving all the time
Inside a perfectly straight line
Don’t you wanna just curve away
When it’s such
When it’s such a perfect day
It’s such a perfect day
Really digging this, along with the rest of the album.
I submit this to you: the movie Wall•E is an instant classic. Instant. New York Times columnist Frank Rich, in “Wall-E for President”:
Indeed, sitting among rapt children mostly under 12, I felt as if I’d stepped through a looking glass. This movie seemed more realistically in touch with what troubles America this year than either the substance or the players of the political food fight beyond the multiplex’s walls.
While the real-life grown-ups on TV were again rebooting Vietnam, the kids at “Wall-E” were in deep contemplation of a world in peril — and of the future that is theirs to make what they will of it. Compare any 10 minutes of the movie with 10 minutes of any cable-news channel, and you’ll soon be asking: Exactly who are the adults in our country and who are the cartoon characters?
It is not good: our news-as-entertainment fails so miserably that our entertainment must step in to fill the void.
