At night 66 of an imagined 77 lights. Excepting interdiction (e.g.: at night by the Klamath either yes or no shooting stars—’Iridium flares’)—this accounts for North Korea, Libya, Sudan, Iran—a network which covers ‘the whole earth’. Al Gore made the first Iridium call in 1998, approximately after I graduated high school, post-NAFTA, post-GATT (Rusty, our guide, often asked about water—do I write about water?), nine months before bankruptcy, before the maybe-de-orbit conversations, before (I asked back: fluidity? or stasis?) new satellites 2010. Latency 1500 milliseconds on a good day from here to ‘the whole earth’, via 485 miles up, between initiation & effect; post-affect & before water wars 20__ this between. The debris: 8120 pieces of space junk float to either burn in fall or burn in flight (or both). Later a trip to Mexico during new passport laws, minutemen building fences to make permanent separation of labor pools (four inter-satellite cross-links—future iterations perhaps optical—avoid dependence on ground stations, making phone calls cheaper). Iridium numbers all start with +8816 or +8817 (the country code for a virtual country)—at night a constellation until 2014. On the riverbank we skipped rocks to make ripple of the flat, I (Rusty narrated his life in terms of simplicity & outside) explained their logic to my brother (roughly 100 minutes pole to pole at 17000 kph), the articulation of surface to surface, angles, trajectories, the imagined end.
iPhone cases are ten a penny, and not a day goes by when we don’t receive press releases about purportedly ‘stylish’ iPhone visitors insurancecases that are clearly targetting the sense of style of the ultra-dull businessman or Katie Price. But these faux vintage iPhone 4/4S clutch cases from Proporta and Lalita are genuinely appealing.
Some of the alternative design options Apple has suggested for Samsung seem so farcical you’d think you were reading The Onion: Don’t make international student health insurance tablets or smartphones with overall rectangular shapes or rounded corners, make tablets with front surfaces that aren’t completely flat, try cluttering the appearance of the devices, and more.When Apple sued Samsung in April, the company claimed Samsung had “slavishly” copied the distinctive designs of the iPhone and iPad, thereby violating Apple intellectual property rights. In its rebuttal, Samsung argues that there are only so many ways you could design devices like the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab.