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“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” – William Gibson – as channeled by Tim O’Reilly.

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” – Satchel Paige.

As is my habit, I woke up this morning and reached for whatever new iPhone pr0n was available. Luckily for me, Apple had just thrown up a lengthy (20 mins) new “documentary”/feature propaganda (20 mins) featuring a friendly Apple designer/model/actor.

One thing that stood out for me, in between high contrast video of the phone merrily multi-tasking it’s way on to being the ultimate device ever, was the Google search demo. The guy, let’s call him Bob, opens up the iPhone and initiates a search by typing a few phrases into Safari’s search field, then hitting the “google” button. Very interesting.

Subversion, reappropriation and modification of key terms and phrases are some of the hallmarks of the current US administration’s communications and the previous two Republican campaigns and as they’ve proved, he who controls the language, controls the universe [sorry Frank Herbert!].

It seems awkward to talk about yahooing for something, but googling has become synonymous with searching for – and finding – information and that may be the subtle difference that means everything, especially as searching and finding heads mobile. This is all pure speculation, but I wonder if the iPhone will change the action button to “yahoo” if you switch to using their search? Time will tell. I’ll let you know on Friday.

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Remembered while discovering Wordie.

A: Yes, since it’s just added J2ME at the request of yours truly.

I love the (Lazy) Interweb.

I’m, alas, a salami!

UPDATE: I love them so much I made a cute little palindrome generator. Go to http://uberthings.com/palindromic for your word of the day.
UPDATE2: I am such a dork. I made a mobile palindrome generator with Textmarks. Text “pali” to 41411. Enjoy.

Bluesnarfing: the illicit accessing of data from an electronic device such as a mobile phone, PDA, or computer using a Bluetooth^® short-range wireless interconnection. The word made headlines when Bluesnarfers targeted the actress Paris Hilton and embarassingly made the electronic contacts list on her mobile available on the Net.

Uh. Excuse me? What? Paris Hilton’s T-Mobile Sidekick did NOT even have Bluetooth. Unlike most devices, the Sidekick handily backs up itself to a server-side repository – which the “Bluesnarfers” managed to “hack” into (in reality, they just guessed her password). I really wish that Catherine Soanes had bothered to read Peter Rojas’ lucid debunking of this incident in Engadget a few short months earlier. Oxford English Dictionary, you need a solid dose of fact-checking.