Thinking about getting a new cell phone. I still prefer a candy bar-style phone to a flip phone, but the only good candy bars these days are sliders. The LG Shine is more stylish than most of them.

Pocket-sized Australian solar charger →

Looks like a useful little gadget to have, especially when I’m sitting in front of a window all day at work.

"The video and telecom-addled civilization that bustles outside [the secular monastery in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem] is full of shallow and incorrect knowledge. People who’ve never taken time to study anything feel they know everything. Constantly distracted by their jangling electronic gizmos, they can’t comprehend the powerful ideas and complex systems wrought by thousands of years of civilization. Their smart machines make them dumb. Inevitably, they look to the cloistered nerds to save them."

Neal Stephenson’s new novel makes me want to kill the Internet. Now that sounds like a book I’ll enjoy. (via nickdouglas)

Forget the iPhone — as a long-time Palm fanboy, the Palm Pre is the phone I want.

Canon SD960: Great Pictures, Great Video →

I think I just found my next digital camera. That example video is amazing.

Using iPhone for TV journalism →

A reporter at a TV station in Miami shot the video for an entire story on an iPhone, then edited it together on Final Cut back at the studio. The voice over was recorded on the iPhone’s voice recording app as well. Nice work! Now if we could just get rid of all the jiggling.