Andy says it

Andy Ihnatko on Antennapalooza
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Andy Ihnatko:

Steve Jobs didn’t fall to his knees, rend his garment, clap his hands together, and beg for forgiveness from users and stockholders.

This has upset many people.

These people are idiots.

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Andy Ihnatko has always had the best view on Apple. Be sure and read his excellent column in the Chicago Sun-Times. Here is a taste:

When I was preparing my review, I discovered the loss-of-signal problem almost immediately. But I only experienced it sporadically. It’s irrelevant to me anyway: I actually prefer to carry my iPhone in a bumper case. And the remainder of the iPhone 4’s improvements — the new display, the new camera, the faster 3G upload speeds (by a factor of 4) and the improved WiFi and GPS radios — more than make up for that 1 dropped call in 100.

Great argument against dogma

The Ascent of Man was one of my favorite documentaries and had a great impact on my views as a scientist. This is one of the best parts of it:

The Green Lantern Uniform is awesome but I loved it for infra-yellow

Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern costume revealed! [Green Lantern]
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Check out your first look at Warner Brother’s new Green Lantern costume, on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. So what do you think of our new Hal Jordan? Should those who worship evil’s might be worried? UPDATE: More images added.

Click on the image for the super high res. version. The Green Lantern EW issues is on stands July 16. And will also have a sneak peek at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Thor, Tron: Legacy and more. [Thanks Denise!]

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Green Lantern was actually my favorite DC comic in the 70s. A man whose sheer will allowed him to do incredible things. But there were always such silly things happening – io9 has collected several.

One particular Green Lantern panel has stuck with me for over 30 years. One that was so silly that I laughed out loud at the time. We would just call it “Show Logic” now. Luckily, someone else has posted it.

The relevant transcript: “No wonder my ring has no effect on the creature! It’s giving off an invisible golden light — a sort of infra-yellow color -!*
*Editor’s Note! Just as infra-red is invisible red light so infra-yellow is invisible yellow light!

The need for the editor’s note to explain things is pure genius. Not only do they completely make something up, they have to stop the story to explain it to us, in a way that is some sort of pidgin science. It’s like even they knew it was too silly to let fly past without some sort of explanation.

“Just as infra-red …” almost sounds reasonable but is just so wrong. Wouldn’t it be cool though if there was such a thing as infra-yellow?

To this day, I use the phrase ‘infra-yellow’ to refer to any sort of outrageous technobabble statement on some science fiction show.

I really hope they find a way to include infra-yellow in the new Green Lantern movie.