The race heats up

Obama is now tied with Clinton in New Hampshire at 31 percent, Edwards trails at 14 percent. Undecideds at 13 percent, nobody else cracks single digits. See the poll here. I’ve long said that Clinton’s advantage in most polls up to this point has been name...

Jam Jacket for iPhone

Bought a $20 rubberized iPhone case when I bought the phone. I’ve been pleased with it. Recommended if you’re getting an iPhone.

It’s still love

Apple announced massive ($5.41 billion in sales, $818 million revenue) quarterly numbers today, with 1.13 million portable Macs and 634,000 desktop Macs sold. They also shipped 9.8 million iPods. Only two days of iPhone sales were included in the quarter, and Apple...

Gungnir

I purchased an iPhone this afternoon from the local AT&T store. Just because I’m the curious type I asked how sales were going. Answer: They’re mostly selling out on a daily basis and receiving new shipments of 8 to 16 phones every day or so. That...

Watch that commute

From There and back again in The New Yorker: I was shocked to find how robust a predictor of social isolation commuting is,” Robert Putnam, a Harvard political scientist, told me. (Putnam wrote the best-seller “Bowling Alone,” about the...