Ahh. Mid-October. I love it! It smells like the thought of a cold chill running down your back as you wonder what your next move should be, only to realize that no matter what you do, you can’t win. And tra-la-la-la-de, more apathetic emotions to come later.

I guess it can’t be all that bad though.

I want to apologize to my .. oh.. three readers, for not posting a god damn thing in such a long time. I was going through some pretty rough times at the end of August through now. I can’t deny that it hasn’t gotten any better. There’s so many things going on at the moment that I can hardly think straight enough to write about them all; but, I’ll start and probably won’t finish.

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Nothing important to say this month.

Wait til next month.

Thanks.

Great find Gizmodo!

It seems like someone in their right minds has finally hit the brink of geek innovation. No it’s not a latest cell phone or a super-ultra-realistic-game-pad for the PS3 or XBox, but it will render you into a mindless, drooling, .. person.

Yes, someone has made a bikini that somewhat resembles a classic NES controller, complete with D-Pad, B/A, and Select Start buttons in geographically respectful areas.

I wouldn’t mind giving up that nude beach in Europe for a pool party at a friend’s neighbor’s house if all the girls played video games and were wearing this bikini.

No. The button’s don’t actually control anything.

Oh joy.

That first crack ALWAYS hurts the most. It almost feels like dropping your new born right on his head. You feel horribly and sickly and the angst and pain doesn’t go away as easily as kissing a booboo. It looks like our good friend BGR has dropped and cracked his BlackBerry Bold for the first (and hopefully last) time.

Taking the plunge, he doesn’t even hesitate to inform the world of his suffering. To no one’s surprise, the unprotected Bold won’t stand up too well to pavement, gravel, or tile, whathaveyou, when dropped from as little as two feet — maybe this is where a real metal bezel would come in handy, right RIM?

BGR doesn’t go into whether or not any essential functions of the Bold were rendered useless but I’d take him up on his advice if I were you.

Buy a condom skin for the Bold. As big and ugly as it makes the device, you’ll appreciate it in the end.

I really hate my computer. Somewhere between the time I built it and now, it seems to have developed a problem with the memory I put in it or the motherboard I put it in. Sometimes it just erratically bursts into flames and the fan spins at inoperable speeds. And most of the time I’m battling the dreaded BSOD which only supplies me random codes having to do with the IRQL not being less than or equal to something and memory equivalents. When researching these errors I end up with “replace your motherboard” or “replace your memory” solutions.

So what the fuck, I’m going to rebuild my computer from the ground up. I have the money to buy the majority of shit I need but I’ll buy it in pieces within the next few weeks. Let’s take a look at what I’ll be putting together, piece by piece.

A full spec list and parts list after the break.

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T-Mobile has finally flipped the 3G switch! carlthree and sixmode, err I have been waiting desperately for this service to be launched in my own backyard and it seems as the day has finally arrived.

As of this morning, T-Mobile has officially gone live with 3G (HSDPA, UMTS) in Las Vegas. We’re all still stuck with the regular, old, crappy handsets if we want to use a 3G one, but T-Mobile has promised us they’ve got an HSDPA-capable device coming soon. (We’re hoping its the Bold.)

Wahoo!

Press release and water-bottles after the break.

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Although you will never, ever ever ever ever eveveveerverver see this in your entire life, I would like to say Happy Birthday to you Isabel

I hope you have a fantastic day, week, rest of your year and I wish you the best, always.

Okay. So, .. not really. Although it’s always nice to see some more color choices on T-Mobile, it’s really not all that exciting at all; considering the scattered releases of the Bold popping up in unexpected places in the past couple of days. I am getting pretty tired of my Titanium Curve.

The phone new colorway will be available starting tomorrow, August 4, at all T-Mobile retail stores, and over the phone, for $149.99 with a 2-year agreement. I’m not really sure what OS it will be running, but I’m betting all my nickels and dimes it’s going to be v4.2.2 even though Boy Genius’ leaked doc says any BlackBerry that launches before September will run 4.5 OOB.

Been lost for a while?

Spec savvy:

• GSM, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi
• Quad-band world phone 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• 2.5” display, 320×240 pixels, QVGA display with more than 65,000 colors
• 3.5 mm headset jack
• Dimensions: 4.2 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches; 3.9 ounces
• microSD slot supporting up to 4 GB of optional removable memory
• 2 megapixel camera
• T-Mobile myFaves-enabled
• Stereo Bluetooth® capability

A can of Krylon and Gas Masks after the break.

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It seems that a handful of Ex-Google employees have banded merrily together to create the next greatest search engine EVER, which for some reason they decided to pronounce ‘cool’. Claiming to be able to “Search 121,617,892,992 web pages”, developer Anna Patterson says it’s over 3 times as many pages as Google indexes.

The search results are presented in a kind of “magazine style,” and will apparently have better relevance and organization that will allow for more pertinent results as it goes down deep into the contents of the page, something Google has yet to master with it’s complicated ranking system.

Despite it’s high-ball A-list of Ex-Google developers and it’s over-exaggerated $33M venture capital behind the new website, I still have trouble finding important sites such as Gizmodo, Engadget and the Boy Genius Report — and not to mention myself. I’d say it still needs quite a bit of tweaking.

A revolver and plenty of quilted paper towels later.

Google.org, the search wizard’s benevolent offspring, has thrown a hefty bone towards Aptera Motors — the people that are throwing convention out the door to bring you the bird-like, over-futuristic gas-sipper, to the tune of $2.75 Million dollars, adding another note-worthy notch to it’s belt with this investment.

Along with Aptera, ActaCell (an electric car battery maker) also received an infusion of $2.75 Million spearheaded by Google.org’s RechargeIT investment program. Hopefully, some of the money will be put to use bringing Aptera’s Typ-1 vehicle to the open market. It’s $30,000 estimated price tag and crazy 230+ MPG fuel economy will be a welcomed relief from rising fuel costs … and of course, our lack of a funky-fresh ride.

Plug to GoogleBlog, and a can of worms later.