Happy 4th of July, U.S. readers

(image from istyles.com)

Yes, the doors are shuttered, and the TDL staff has scattered to enjoy the holiday weekend. Happy 4th of July to our American readers, and our apologies to our Canadian readers for missing Canada Day on the 1st.

Have a great weekend everyone, and we'll see you back here Monday. And yes, TDL live, Monday night at 9 PM ET.

A visit to the Toy Robot Museum

In the theme of 4th of July traveling, we proudly present Anna Steffen (from our sister site, AmericanHops.com) visiting the Toy Robot Museum in Stoudtsburg, PA:

Starting your Friday gently: a robot band!

I know, I know. It's Friday. You'd rather not be in the office. You know what you need? No, not a fake doctor's excude to get out of work. You need a pick-me-up in the form of something that will restore your faith in humanity while getting you up and dancin' . I speak of course, of a robotic band:

We couldn't sum it up any better

I just wanted to share a YouTube find with everyone. We're always fans of frustration best told through video. So here's an iPhone 3G ad parody pointing out some "shortcomings" compared to other phones. You know what's coming, but still worth a chuckle.

Apple and Adobe, say you're sorry, and shake hands

Apple, I want you to look at Adobe. Adobe, look at Apple. Now both of you have been misbehaving lately. Adobe, there's no need to upset the Apple faithful by claiming there won't be 64bit support in most Adobe apps anytime soon. Apple, shame on you for pinning Safari quits on Adobe (see image above)
Apple: "But he does! Adobe always crashes Safari!"
Adobe: "I do not! You just need to let users disable/enable plugins."

Stop it both of you. Now let's talk about the iPhone for a minute.
Adobe: "I don't wanna!"
Apple: "I'm not allowed to speculate!"

Ok, ok. Adobe, you said you have Flash working on a jailbroken iPhone, right?
Adobe: "Yeah, and we'd release it too, if Apple would let us!"
Apple: "Your app is nothing but a battery-draining, web clogging, poopy head."
Adobe: "Oh yeah, you're just scared people will prefer Flash and it will become a mobile standard just like on the web!"
Apple: "Am not!"
Adobe: "Are too!"
Apple: "People prefer QuickTime anyhow."
Adobe: "Oh yeah, then why do I have an installed base of nearly 98% of all computers?"
Apple: "Oh yeah, well QuickTime powers iTunes, the world's biggest online music store!"
Adobe: "Yeah, and you have to use Photoshop to make the graphics because Aperture's stinky!"
Apple: "Aperture isn't for making graphics, stupid."
Adobe: "Fine. I'll just develop my apps for the PC only!"
Apple: "Fine. and I'll make the iPhone Microsoft Silverlight friendly."
Adobe: "Fin-- oh wait. you don't mean that do you?"
Apple: "No... I guess not. It just came out.

There, now see, you both have something in common. I'm going to go back inside. Why don't you two play in the sandbox for a bit and see if you can come up with a solution...

Both of you, stop it. Seriously.