The iPhone now gets a little friend. Well actually a big friend but they are well paired thanks to the AmpliTube iRig. Its a software and hardware connection that enables electric guitars or bass’ into the iPhone, or iTouch. This little app lets you tweak your axes on the go. Such as a tour bus, when your not snorting illegal narcotics off the back sides of “groupies”. It comes with a plethora of effects, and amps – up to 10 stomps, 5 amps, 5 cabinets and 2 microphones. There also is an additional headphone jack so you don’t wake up your “old roommates”. Its pre-order right now for $39.99 check ikmultimedia.com for release dates.

Finally after years, and years of waiting Philip K. Dicks “Exegesis” is scheduled to be released in 2011. PKD is best known for his novels and “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”,  “The Man in the High Castle” and “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch”. These are his most popular works, despite the fact r the work actually regarding the Exegesis exclusively is Valis. Which for years has been an over looked PKD novel, which I’m sure will gain popularity among the masses that haven’t read any PKD yet.

Mr. Lethem, the author of novels like “Chronic City” and “The Fortress of Solitude,” and who has written frequently on Mr. Dick, said hesitated to describe ”Exegesis” as a work. He described the books as a chronicle of the period in which Mr. Dick “pulled himself together again, as a writer and a human being.” “He’d been launched into outer space by the visions of the early 70s,” Mr. Lethem said, “and he was going to try to come back with the truth – and that, by definition is an impossible task.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, got the rights to 39 published works, and are re-releasing those next year as well, so I guess we’ll have a bunch more books with stupid covers, like the last round of PKD books.  I collect first edition PKD so I’m to worried about it.

So you’ve read this far. Whats this Exegesis about? Um. PDK had a series of experiences in which he believed he had information transmitted to his mind by a pink beam of light and if you don’t know that its possibly one of the longest works ever written by a human, Google it. They can sum up the crazy awesome shit way faster than I can.

Volume 1 – Expected 2011, Volume 2 Expected 2012

The empire never ended.

They are a The Scandinavia Android TV company developing the first android based television set. The television set will come with YouTube, Google Maps ,Weather, Time, Calendar, Internet Browser. The television is being developed in both a  prototype then 42-inch,  47-inch and 55-inch to be sold to the public after its release. This will be the first Internet based television released onto the market. Of course there’s a Korean company already developing one, so we’ll see who beats whom.

“Think of it as a device that provides all the functionality that you would expect from an Android smart phone, combined with the quality and definition you demand of a high-end Full-HD LED TV set”, says Christian Svantesson, co-founder and CEO of People of Lava.  The price of the Scandinavia 42″ will be between €2,000 and €2,500 at the global sales-start in September the prices for bigger go up…

Some Specs

- Out of the box Android TV applications such as: – YouTube, Google Maps ,Weather, Time, Calendar, Internet Browser

- Downloadable Apps, both free and from coming App-store: – Facebook, Twitter, Email and more…

- Internet connection

Its become a sad day here at mlgnn.com. As rumored apparently per Justin Long “the Mac” in the Mac ads, they are coming to an end. The 30 second TV ads were popular in 2006 when they first launched in the MAC vs PC war. Justin is quoted as saying,”You know, I think they might be done. In fact, I heard from John, I think they’re going to move on. I can’t say definitively, which is sad, because not only am I going to miss doing them, but also working with John.”

The ads have received a number of awards, and have also pissed off a number of Windows users (who probably like Star Trek as well). The ads stared Justin Long as the MAC and John Hodgman as the PC. There are currently 66 televisions commercials so far. I can only hope maybe they’ll so a farewell commercial. If you use a PC or Mac these commercial are hilarious even if they are a bit inaccurate. So long John, and Justin. You will be missed…

Oh PC...

Roger L .Easton  Genius in Satellite telemetry and timing has finally been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Easton helped develop the MINITRACK the worlds first satellite tacking system, which then turned in to TIMATION. The TIMATION (time navagation)  was used to launch 4 experimental satellite tracking system in the 1960′s and 1970′s. The last satellite launched during TIMATION was the first satellite to transmit GPS signals back to us. The technology Easton implemented in his GPS satellites, are still used today. It also helped verify Einsteins theory of relativity. Eaton did eventually retired from the official lab, but he did find time to run for Governor in 1986

“His leap in vision led to the United States’ first satellite tracking network and patent of synchronized timing of spacecraft which became the fundamental basis for GPS.” – Someone…

Now if they let the guy who created the Snuggie in, thats it for that place. Boom

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