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http://io9.com/5931903/seven-foot-long-minifig-scale-serenity-model-is-a-lego-masterpiece "This project took 475 hours over 21 months. The ship has a full interior from the bridge to the cargo bay, and features lights in the cargo bay and firefly drive. There are about 70,000 pieces, and it weighs around 135 pounds." https://www.flickr.com/photos/brickfrenzy/sets/72157630914408000/with/7717701618/

Happy Birthday, Deepak!

Oh, and make sure you walk in the right smartphone lane http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11095439/Chinese-city-paints-street-lane-for-mobile-phone-users.html

http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/fox-news-turns-to-the-one-expert-it-can-trust-on-the-middle-east--lJ8J4rIlNg

El reg confirms http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/13/apple_iphone_6_plus_shipments_delayed_in_uk/ its almost like the media reports of the shipping delays due to unexpectedly high demand, post-release, are by design ...

Ric, someone seems to have taken the salesman's quote to heart, and as an elder, got someone else to do all the work (allegedly) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11096727/German-Playboy-model-Cathy-Schmitz-marries-billionaire-Richard-Lugner.html

The Crusaders et al. - Royal Jam So Long,

Somewhat irreverent, but perceptive / amusing comments (and U2 snarks) http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/09/13/u2_uncool_but_whats_with_all_the_crotch_rubbing/ Plus Pre emptive use of use of Watch-hole "The Apple Watch is an interactive stylus with the added benefit of (inevitably) being perceived as a status symbol by the look-at-me hipster-tech crowd. Prepare to be inundated by Watch-holes."

RIP Joe Sample. i was in the audience when they recorded Royal Jam, Quite the line up, quite the venue, quite the impact. RIP Joe.

Speaking of Lossless Streaming. Spotiify is "Testing" Lossless streaming ... http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/09/spotify-is-testing-lossless-audio/

How is that different from his use case with the real phone?

Eggy (bacon) stuffed hash browns With a little something to follow

And you call yourself a prospective doctor!

Samsung thankful for the Apple Watch

In Other news http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2753346/Chinese-medical-student-died-heart-attack-looked-sexy-magazine-fourth-donation-sperm-bank-week.html CJ's a medical student, right?

You can, with a steady hand trim some sims. Sim -> Micro -> Nano (depending on your layout of your sim) e.g. http://www.amazon.com/QQ-Tech-Cutter-Standard-iPhone-Adapters/dp/B009P16FKY http://www.amazon.com/Noosy-Micro-Cutter-Converter-adapters/dp/B003UEWF8I You can get Adapters (with varying degrees of success) to convert Nano->Micro->Slim to use a given sim in a different sized holder / slot ... Or like much of the (Non US) world ... Use a Dual Sim Phone ... ( e.g. keep your business number + personal number separate ) http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/mobile-phone/3511526/best-dual-sim-smartphones-2014/ http://www.cnet.com/news/why-you-want-a-dual-sim-phone/ http://www.phonearena.com/news/The-best-dual-SIM-phones_id32596 If you want to use your phone, as a phone, you know, for calls + texts ... Or use google voice , as a "virtual" phone / number / font end / - so you can change the physical phone back end at will - without having to inform your contacts - assuming you gave them the google voice number first.

A mass customized, data mined, big data driven world. "People who thought this news was important, also liked the following news" A world where the greatest minds are not solving "important" problems, but are working out how to make you click on an ad.

What about a scarf ensemble? #scarfguy.

Them there's some fancy food trucks you got yourself, Colin.

Forum Comment on The Register comment thread. http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2014/09/10/pundits_bullish_on_apple_over_iday_rollouts/ article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/10/pundits_bullish_on_apple_over_iday_rollouts/ If you take the view that Apple doesn't have to beat the opposition if it can neutralize it ....

Interesting quote re: ApplePay Apple DOES NOT benefit the mobile payments space To the contrary, Apple Pay basically destroys the business model of everyone playing in the mobile payments space before today! This is great for consumers, but everyone else is busy throwing out their business plan and figuring out how to survive this. I always figured NFC payments would be really hard to make work in the US because everyone wants to take a cut of the transaction. Everyone involved from phone OEMs, carriers, app developers and various others who figured they could insert themselves in the process - all had dreams of making billions off a small cut of the action. Those dreams are now gone. Apple doesn't need a cut (or profit down the road via using/selling customer data) since they make their money selling phones/watches. Payment processors and banks didn't want to give anyone a cut of their action. Merchants didn't want to give a bigger cut than they give now to enable more pigs at the trough. So the banks, payment processors, and merchants all became logical partners of Apple, and the massive support they've lined up guarantees Apple Pay will gain traction where others have failed. Anyone who wants to play the mobile payments game after today will have to play by the profit-free information-free rules Apple has now set in stone. Brilliant move by Apple, this deals Google's aspirations a crippling blow by taking away their ability to collect data on user purchases and add it to their massive trove of customer data. Had Google been able to link purchase behavior all the way back to user searches, the value of that search data and AdWords would have grown immeasurably.

Would you go as far as "These products are about "how they make you feel" says Tim Cook." ? https://twitter.com/Vecchi_Paolo/status/509398068152631296