Brilliant SNL spoof of iPhone ads.

Now available until November 26: the One Laptop Per Child XO. $400 for US and Canadian residents only, which buys one for you and one for someone else. And you get a year of T-Mobile hotspot service.

If you wrote a novel about Atlantic City politics, it couldn’t be as bizarre as what’s really going on.

As a communications geek, I’m amused by this piece on the disappearing phone booth. First that people’s connections to it are from the Superman movies, when the “changing in a phone booth” trope dates back to the cartoons and comics of the 1930s and 1940s. Second that there are now phone booths without phones. Third that the kid quoted at the end has apparently never had a dead battery.