Who wants the iPhone?

Why the iPhone won't rock your world

could go on, but you will get the drift. The real significance of the iPhone is the way it illustrates why companies find it hard to innovate. The difficulty stems from a simple, unpalatable fact - namely that radical innovation generally threatens your existing business model. Or, in MBA-speak, it cannibalises your core business.

Slashdot's title is a better summary: Why the Rokr Phone Is An Important Failure

Sunday...

... seems to be our day for spending large amounts of money. This morning the door latch finally failed completely on our microwave oven. It's been flaky for months; at least it didn't die with a freshly-cooked batch of bacon inside. I finished breakfast on the stove.

Meanwhile, our Younger Daughter's daybed frame has been slowly disintegrating. At least the matress is still OK, so all we needed was the frame. Total damage for the day, about $800 (that's $300 for the zapper, $200 for the bedframe, and the rest for tax, delivery, extended warranty on the zapper, and a partridge in a pear tree.

What if Wikipedia was a cookbook?

No need to wonder: just go to en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook. It's part of the Wikibooks site.

(The result of about an hour's worth of Wikipedia link-chasing, most immediately from the article on Gram staining. Don't ask. Well, OK; the path leads, with a few side-trips, from September 11 to the Coptic calendar (of which this is the first day) to the tropical year to tropical diseases. Simple, really.)

September 11th

September 11

(From kshandra, who had the whole list in her entry, credited to sunyata__. But it's more fun to hit the Wikipedia article and start chasing links.)