Not bad for $20, hey?

Ah yes, the beautiful iPhone 2G – your flat-backed sexiness is now mine! 😀

Maybe it’s the inner fanboy in me, but I’ve always wanted one of
these. Maybe it’s the flat back appeal, or perhaps it’s the fact that
the iPhone 2G, has, in my mind, represented the invention of the
original smartphone, the phone that could do it all.

If you’ve read any of the stories about how the original iPhone
concept was conceived you’ll know that there was a good deal
surrounding this phone – not just the rumours of that fateful meeting
between Jobs and other Apple execs, where Jobs supposedly said that
things (the state of the iPhone at that stage) just weren’t good
enough – and for me, that basically represents Apple – the company,
the methodology, the modus operandi.

You can keep your Android devices, your Droid Xs and Desires, loaded
with crapware as they are. You can keep your eFuse mechanisms which
permanently brick devices upon attempted modification of firmwares,
your feature checklist at the expense of actual useability, and yes,
you can even keep your vastly superior notification system, because
you know what? The iPhone, as a platform, as a device, as the whole
damn ecosystem – just friggin’ works.

What more could any fanboy want?

As for the obviously used device you see at the top of this post –
it’ll obviously be needed a new screen (glass replacement only, the
digitizer [thing which recognises touch input] and actual LCD are
fine), and possibly a new battery as well. Hopefully these two things
won’t cost me more than about $100-$150 or so – I’m also unsure I have
the skills to repair both those things myself, so if you know any
place that does that sorta thing, shout out in comments!

After that, well, I guess it’ll serve as a nice prelude to the
impending iPhone 4 of doom.
I’ll definitely be selling my iPhone 3G after I obtain an iPhone 4 –
no real need to have three iPhones now, is there? 😉

Oh, and for those asking – it’s the 8GB version.

Posted via email from Benny’s randomly-updated Posterous

List of common misconceptions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This list of common or popular misconceptions contains some fallacious, misleading, or otherwise flawed ideas which are well-documented to be both widely believed and factually incorrect.

via List of common misconceptions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Yeah, I told you there’s a list for everything on Wikipedia.

Gotta love the note at the top of the article, as well:

This is an incomplete list which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

What the hell is macerated paper?

Headings

Header one

Header two

Header three

Header four

Header five
Header six

Blockquotes

Single line blockquote:

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Multi line blockquote with a cite reference:

The HTML <blockquote> Element (or HTML Block Quotation Element) indicates that the enclosed text is an extended quotation. Usually, this is rendered visually by indentation (see Notes for how to change it). A URL for the source of the quotation may be given using the cite attribute, while a text representation of the source can be given using the <cite> element.

multiple contributors – MDN HTML element reference – blockquote

Tables

Employee Salary  
John Doe $1 Because that’s all Steve Jobs needed for a salary.
Jane Doe $100K For all the blogging she does.
Fred Bloggs $100M Pictures are worth a thousand words, right? So Jane x 1,000.
Jane Bloggs $100B With hair like that?! Enough said…

Definition Lists

Definition List Title
Definition list division.
Startup
A startup company or startup is a company or temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
#dowork
Coined by Rob Dyrdek and his personal body guard Christopher “Big Black” Boykins, “Do Work” works as a self motivator, to motivating your friends.
Do It Live
I’ll let Bill O’Reilly will explain this one.

Unordered Lists (Nested)

  • List item one
    • List item one
      • List item one
      • List item two
      • List item three
      • List item four
    • List item two
    • List item three
    • List item four
  • List item two
  • List item three
  • List item four

Ordered List (Nested)

  1. List item one -start at 8
    1. List item one
      1. List item one -reversed attribute
      2. List item two
      3. List item three
      4. List item four
    2. List item two
    3. List item three
    4. List item four
  2. List item two
  3. List item three
  4. List item four

HTML Tags

These supported tags come from the WordPress.com code FAQ.

Address Tag

1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States

Anchor Tag (aka. Link)

This is an example of a link.

Abbreviation Tag

The abbreviation srsly stands for “seriously”.

Acronym Tag (deprecated in HTML5)

The acronym ftw stands for “for the win”.

Big Tag (deprecated in HTML5)

These tests are a big deal, but this tag is no longer supported in HTML5.

Cite Tag

“Code is poetry.” —Automattic

Code Tag

This tag styles blocks of code.
.post-title {
margin: 0 0 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 38px;
line-height: 1.2;
and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how it is handled and to find out how it overflows;
}

You will learn later on in these tests that word-wrap: break-word; will be your best friend.

Delete Tag

This tag will let you strike out text, but this tag is recommended supported in HTML5 (use the <s> instead).

Emphasize Tag

The emphasize tag should italicize text.

Horizontal Rule Tag


This sentence is following a <hr /> tag.

Insert Tag

This tag should denote inserted text.

Keyboard Tag

This scarcely known tag emulates keyboard text, which is usually styled like the <code> tag.

Preformatted Tag

This tag is for preserving whitespace as typed, such as in poetry or ASCII art.

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost


  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
  And sorry I could not travel both          (\_/)
  And be one traveler, long I stood         (='.'=)
  And looked down one as far as I could     (")_(")
  To where it bent in the undergrowth;

  Then took the other, as just as fair,
  And having perhaps the better claim,          |\_/|
  Because it was grassy and wanted wear;       / @ @ \
  Though as for that the passing there        ( > º < )
  Had worn them really about the same,         `>>x<<´
                                               /  O  \
  And both that morning equally lay
  In leaves no step had trodden black.
  Oh, I kept the first for another day!
  Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
  I doubted if I should ever come back.

  I shall be telling this with a sigh
  Somewhere ages and ages hence:
  Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
  I took the one less traveled by,
  And that has made all the difference.


  and here's a line of some really, really, really, really long text, just to see how it is handled and to find out how it overflows;

Quote Tag for short, inline quotes

Developers, developers, developers… –Steve Ballmer

Strike Tag (deprecated in HTML5) and S Tag

This tag shows strike-through text.

Small Tag

This tag shows smaller text.

Strong Tag

This tag shows bold text.

Subscript Tag

Getting our science styling on with H2O, which should push the “2” down.

Superscript Tag

Still sticking with science and Albert Einstein’s E = MC2, which should lift the 2 up.

Teletype Tag (obsolete in HTML5)

This rarely used tag emulates teletype text, which is usually styled like the <code> tag.

Underline Tag deprecated in HTML 4, re-introduced in HTML5 with other semantics

This tag shows underlined text.

Variable Tag

This allows you to denote variables.

Devil’s Advocate: Why Hardcore Gamers Mean Nothing To The Industry

You spent three months painstakingly reading hardware reviews, comparing prices and warranties. You put on your anti-static wristband, got out your carefully de-magnetised screwdriver kit and spent six hours assembling your beast of a rig by the pale, flickering glow of a basement bulb. Right now you’re wearing the best surround sound headphones money can buy, reading this article at a resolution so high you can’t even pronounce the numbers, and scrolling around using a laser-precision gaming mouse that cost you four months of your salary. Yes, I’m talking about you, hardcore gamer. Here’s a tip: the industry doesn’t care about you.

via Games On Net :: General News: Devil’s Advocate: Why Hardcore Gamers Mean Nothing To The Industry.

Why can’t games.on.net write like this all the time?