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• 360 is white.
• 360 can stand on it’s side.
• 360 has different face plates.
• 360 has wireless controllers.
• 360 can go online…

All of these factoids are unispiring or are so vauge as to border on useless. They left out all the meat, and failed to show the world anything other than “more screenshots”. Microsoft really dropped the ball.

As an aside, I’m a Scoble-whore, because I use the word Scoble in this post (forgive me). Hopefully, he’ll see this and let the responsible party at Microsoft know how badly they failed to educate and excite people about what should be their newest coolest product. You had tons of eyeballs, you had MTV, and you filled up an hour with the amount of information that could have been printed on a brochure.

Since the damned MPx was cancelled, I’m looking to the boring Scoble phone or sexy but unreleased Nokia N91 to satisfy my convergance hunger.

Scoble, you won, and don’t worry the Tablet PC’s not invisible, at least not to me. You see, I’m the new proud owner of my first TabletPC. Well, my employer owns it… but close enough. This whole post, actually, was written by hand and then converted to text in Firefox. Neat stuff, neat stuff… Stay tuned for more of my first impressions working with a tablet.

Also, if you have any invites you don’t know what to do with, post a message here and I’ll add them to the pool of available invites. Thanks to Chris Owens for the last round and inspiration.
No more invites here. All were given to the isnoop gmail spooler. Get them there.
Invites Available: 13
Invites Given: 3

Invite Donors: Myself, Dan Lash (6)

He then wanted to confirm the available balance I saw with the one he saw and all was well except for one thing. He asked, “Did you purchase gas from the pump on Tuesday?”

“Yes, sure did, about ten dollars worth. Is there a problem?” I replied.

He went on to explain that everything was fine, and that I should adjust my balance because when you purchase gasoline from the pump, the machine validates that your credit card has at least one dollar of credit, no more. This is immediately posted away from your available balance, but the actual amount of money spent isn’t requested from your creditor until after a few days. So, you actually pay $1 to pump the gas, and pay the rest later. Go fig.

The ads that resonate with me the most are as follows.

• Lee Buttrill, US Marine who served in Iraq, speaking on Weapons of Mass Destruction.
• Brady Van Matre, a contracter speaking on the economy.
• Bob Scott on honesty of the administration.

By way of Boing Boing.

Update: I did the Columbia House DVD offer, though looking back, I should have probably done the BMG music offer. Some of the services require that you really do nothing, and can cancel them, though the CD service one looks to be the best value for least investment. Besides, it would’ve been great to get more CDs to put on the iPod…

All I can figure is that the FOX execs decided to come up with a name that would be as vaguely descriptive of a dung heap as possible, and then give it “from the streets” feel. Also, don’t hope to get much out of the website about the show, as it seems dedicated to selling music, clothes, and ecards. No, I’m not being fair to the show, because frankly, some things don’t deserve to be considered, let alone exist.

You ruffians with your hip-hop lingo, television, and pop rocks, the future of this country is more dim than ever.