Download Michael Moore’s “Slacker Uprising” Free On iTunes

Slacker Uprising is a movie of Michael Moore’s tour of colleges in battleground states during the 2004 election, with a goal to encourage 18-29 year olds to vote, and the response it received. The movie is available as a free download on iTunes HERE.

 

Apple Launches Web-Based iPhone 3G Pre-Purchase Tool

Following the iPhone 3G’s discontinuation of the original iPhone’s iTunes-based service signup and activation, Apple has launched an online tool that lets customers planning to purchase an iPhone 3G review their eligibility and pricing, select an AT&T rate plan, and inform their local Apple Store of when they would like to come in to purchase the device. As all of these steps were previously handled for iPhone 3G customers while in-store or through an in-line, on-site screening process, the tool is likely designed to help reduce the amount of time it takes customers to purchase and activate their phones. It will also likely help avoid confusion when/if there is an AT&T-related issue, giving the user a chance to sort whatever issues may arise with AT&T prior to coming in to the store.

Make Me Super

Have you ever wanted to be a super hero?  Now you can upload your image at Make Me Super and see a video of your exploits.  You can even add your likeness to a coffee mug, mouse pad or playing cards.

 

The Google Phone (The long-awaited HTC Dream AKA The G1)

 

The long-awaited HTC Dream, the first commercial handset running Google’s Android operating system, will be coming to T-Mobile as the G1. Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen, internet navigation buttons and a full QWERTY keypad, the smartphone market has finally broken free of Symbian, Windows Mobile and Apple.

 

The phone will feature Google Maps, GPS, a 1GB MicroSD card preinstalled, Android Market (similar to iPhone’s mobile App Store), Amazon MP3 Store, You Tube and a camera.

 

Set to launch on October 22nd for $179 on T-Mobile in the US on a two-year contract.

 

New Penny Design

Next year, the penny will be getting not just one new look but four of them, the first changes to the 1-cent coin in 50 years.

The U.S. Mint unveiled the new designs during a ceremony Monday at the Lincoln Memorial. The coin changes are part of the government’s commemoration next year of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth.

Lincoln’s profile will remain on one side of the coin but the Lincoln Memorial will be replaced on the other side by the new images, with a different one being introduced every three months.

The first new design will depict a log cabin, representing the place in Kentucky where Lincoln was born in 1809.

The second design will feature a young Lincoln taking a break from working as a rail splitter in Indiana by reading a book. Lincoln as a young lawyer standing in front of the old state capitol building in Springfield, Ill., will be the design on the third coin.

The final coin in the series will show the half-completed Capitol dome, evoking Lincoln’s famous order that construction of the Capitol should continue during the Civil War as a symbol that the Union would continue.

The first new penny is scheduled to go into circulation starting on Feb. 12, Lincoln’s birthday, and then every three months after that.

The changing designs mark another effort by the Mint to duplicate the success of the 50-state quarter program, the most popular coin collecting program in U.S. history. The nickel also had changing designs to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Mint is trying to revive interest in a $1 coin by introducing four new designs each year honoring a different president.

Lincoln’s image was added to the penny in 1909 when the nation was celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.

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