Gordon Brown’s Jonah Complex

Gordon Brown is a klutz, a jinx, fool whose every touch turns the object touched to shit. Where Blair had a Midas-like ability to hold the faith of at least the mainstream, he has been succeeded by a man capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at every...

SOPODS Full Screen Browser for iPhone

I bought and installed this, hoping it would make my browsing experience on the iPhone better, but after two uses, am not impressed. The render is slow (how and why, when it’s based on Safari?) and it scrolls incredibly slowly and jerkily, much much worse than...

Status anxiety and the iPhone pt 2

I touched earlier on the feeling men get from possessing the best thing in any class of item. A man with a Bugatti Veyron, the first one to emerge from a James Bond film, someone with an iPhone: all feel varying levels of that top of the world feeling, at once...