Latest rumor via Gartner is that Apple's placed an order for 10 million 3G-enabled iPhones.  Yee-ha if true.

One of my favorite authors, Arthur C. Clarke, died this week at 90.  I've enjoyed nearly all his books and short stories over the years and will miss not seeing any new work from this great mind.   Most of you likely know him for the Stanley Kubrick movie adaptation of his novel "2001: A Space Odyssey."

MacRumor is quoting analysts that the 3G iPhone will be in Q2 of this year.  My Blackberry Pearl is nearly dead (antenna is flaking more than a Selson Blue commercial).  Can I wait until it ships to replace my phone?  3G is all I'm waiting for to try out the iPhone myself. 

Also, it looks like it'll support Microsoft Exchange email & calendar.  That about seals it.  

Now I've just got to wait until June...

The look back in the trailer is kind of interesting.  I'm a little worried it'll go more like Batman & Robin or Star Wars: The Phantom Menace than Batman Begins.

Still, it'll probably be pretty fun. 

View the Indiana Jones 4 trailer

I have to say, I'm a surprised Amazon Kindle fan.  I bought it in December as both a fun toy and a way to haul a ton of books with me to Australia.  I figured that would be it.  I'd use it and find some things that bothered me so much that I basically never picked it up again.  I am shocked to find that I was wrong.  (No offense, Amazon, it's not personal.  I do that with gadgets all the time.)

I read on the Kindle at least 4 times a week.  Getting the Wall Street Journal every morning in my hand and not in a big, cumbersome and ink-smudging form alone is almost worth it.  Putting the Whispernet wireless feature in there was sheer genius. 

It's got some faults (buttons are way too easy to hit, back/previous is confusing, page flipping is a little slower than I'd like), but I now use it as much as I use my iPod. 

We'll see how it does in the market.  It's way early in its life, but I'm pleasantly happy with where it started. 

A short video of the history of war told through food.

The sound and animations are awesome.  My sisters' comments:
1.  "That's fantastic!  I've never seen croissants run away that fast."
2.  "You send the weirdest things.  And we saw the IED coming a mile away."

I was listening to "Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me" on NPR and they mentioned this story.  It was just too good to be true.  A man decided that his cowgirl tattoo needed sprucing up... so he gave it breast implants! 

One of the folks on NPR called it "tattoos for the blind." 

I thought it all too funny.