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Apple may have revealed additional details about the iPad on Friday, but perhaps a more interesting revelation came in the form of regulatory filing regarding Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.

You may recall that CEO Steve Jobs took a six-month leave of absence in 2009 due to medical issues, and that Cook ran the day-to-day operations of Apple during that time. Apparently, Apple’s board of directors remembers that time as well.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Friday’s filing shows Cook was awarded a bonus package worth $22 million—which comes out to $3.6 million a month while filling in for Jobs.

Apple COO Tim Cook awarded $22 million Bonus

Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.

The iPhone is made, of course, by Microsoft's longtime rival, Apple Inc. The device's success is a nagging reminder for Microsoft executives of how the company's own efforts to compete in the mobile business have fallen short in recent years.

What is especially painful is that many of Microsoft's own employees are nuts for the device.

Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones

So....does this thing actually work?

I'm testing this service out for an idea we have surrounding Macworld Expo.

Watch their demo. If you like what you see, sign up and add "YML @ Macworld Expo" as a friend:
http://www.dodgeball.com/user?uid=74777

OK...how cool is this? I'm on a freaking *plane* @ 35,000 ft over Reno, Nevada.....and I'm on the Net!

Click here to watch a short video!

Net access is by GoGoInflight.com and is only on American airline flights to/from SF/NYC, LA/NYC and Miami/NYC. $12.95 for the flight duration.

More in flight video here!

Our firend Jeff La Grua passed this along:

Shawn, got this as a forward of a forward of a forward. Its interesting, and perhaps wholly unrealistic, BUT its an interesting thought exercise, and maybe, just maybe, crazy enough to work.

I am against the $85,000,000, 000.00 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I am in favor of giving $85,000,000, 000 to America
in a "We Deserve It Dividend."

To make the math simple, let us assume there are
200,000,000 bona fide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is
about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So
200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that
equal s $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every
person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Click here to read more about the "We Deserve It Dividend"

Last Day of August from blatherskyte on Vimeo.

Video shot by our friend J Curtis in HD using a Panasonic HVX200A.

Hello everyone! Thank you and welcome to "The Almost Grand Opening!" - the "real" Grand Opening will be on September 3rd, 2008 but I want to welcome you to drop by and look around.

As we were out riding last week, we met some of the Scooter Divas - 4 delightful women riding their own rides on scooters!

My name is Napoleon (my friends call me "Nappy") and I am an Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri). I've somehow managed to make friends with two very nice humans - Shawn and Lesa - who are very kind to me and are going to let me indulge in my wanderlust.

You see, being a penguin, while glorious, does have its disadvantages. The main one being travel.

Oh sure, we can walk all over Antarctica and swim in the sea but, we can't visit Paris. Or Los Angeles. Or the Mediterranean. So, if you're a penguin like me (and I assume you are otherwise, why would you bother reading this?) and have an urge to get out and see the world, being flightless and living at the bottom of the planet presents sometimes insurmountable challenges.

I say "sometimes" because I have managed to leave my homeland (I won't say "escaped" because I love Antarctica!) and will be traveling as much of the world as my flightless wings and tiny feet can take me!

This promises to be quite an adventure - certainly for me but I also hope you, my fellow penguins, will join me virtually. Who knows - maybe I'll get to meet some of you in the Real World.

Enjoy!