I’ve waited a long time for this. I want one box for all my data, computer and internet stuff. Doesn’t matter if I hook it to a TV, keyboard, lapdock, whatever. I want once device to rule them all that I can stick in my pocket. Then hook up to stuff as needed. The three players are Apple, Google and Microsoft. I dismiss Apple outright as they are useless to me. I like Google for the web and phone stuff. They suck at the software side of things, seriously, their documents suck. I like Microsoft for the file management and software type stuff. But they’re web-fu and phone stuff sucks. I picked up a windows phone once and crashed it in 2 seconds. I had a witness who called his boss to ask if I could blog it. The answer was no, btw. But I want one machine to do it all. It doesn’t sound all that hard to do.

Of course, this would kill the business of providing internet, phone, and TV to homes.

Update: Oh and also, windows might lose. It looks to me like Windows 8 is like someone took all this cool phone stuff and stuffed it into a bigger box.

Update 2: Amazon is a fourth player. They’ve wooed me thus far and maybe they will do that with this concept.

A book shelf that holds rifles:

I am intrigued.

They dropped a bullet tax. But the tax on guns to defray healthcare costs stays. These people are morons. And what exactly is a ” high rate of gun”?

Shooting champ jailed for “huge cache of ammunition”

Web advertising is killing web communication. Well, I suppose until I’m paid to write, that will have to do. Except that I am paid to write but I suck at deadlines. Sorry, Ed.

Issa’s latest report divulged for the first time that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s office originally planned for him to go to Arizona to announce the results of the Fast and Furious investigation before Justice Department officials abruptly dropped the idea when guns from the operation showed up at the murder scene of the border agent

A judge speeds the contempt case up. Gee, why is that?

USA Today runs Wayne LaPierre’s op-ed

An academic adviser (someone one step up from asking “do you want fries with that?”) posted a no gun sign at his CU Boulder office. His sign carries no weight of law.

Shockingly, the absence of guns where there’s looting.

25 people dead from celebratory gunfire at a Saudi Arabian wedding:

At least 25 people have been killed by electric shock in a wedding in eastern Saudi Arabia, civil defence officials and local media say.

Celebratory gunfire brought down an electric cable at a house in Ain Badr village where the wedding was held on Tuesday night, Abdullah Khashman, an Eastern Province official, said.

It doesn’t say so but I’m betting the officer who shot himself in the leg left a finger on the trigger while holstering.

Typical twaddle about open carrying becoming legal even though open carrying leads to, err, nothing I can tell. And then:

When the law takes effect, Oklahoma will become the 15th state to allow people to openly carry firearms with a license. Those 15 states include Utah, Iowa, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Really?

Fun gun to shoot: the MP40

There’s a Mosin under that.