Oh, Fridays.
Today we learn that a 28-year old from Denver is reportedly the first person to undergo "whittling" surgery to make him more iPhoneable. Whittling involves shaved down the bones in the thumbs, and modifying muscles and the nail... so that thumbs are better suited to using the iPhone.
What - as the Daily Mail would say - is the world coming to? That is absolutely ridiculous.
Clearly the iPhone would be even easier to use if he'd whittled down his fingers too. Ahem.
The WSJ payment wall
There's plenty of speculation about whether Rupert Murdoch will lift the payment barrier on the Wall Street Journal website now that his acquisition of its parent company Dow Jones is going through. I seem to remember WSJ's managing editor Bill Grueskin saying at a conference once that when advertising is doing well, people slate the WSJ's subscription model and when advertising is doing badly, they think it is a great idea.
That aside, there are few very successful paid-subscription sites on the web and the WSJ is the most high profile. FT.com has been under increasing speculation about its own paid access model, though much of the site is not behind that wall anyway.
Murdoch has now said that he certainly look at dropping the payment wall, and that would be likely to force the FT to do the same and possibly even the New York Times, which controversially introduced the TimeSelect paid-content wall for its columnists. (Reuters)
Football
Something called "football" is apparently about to happen quite a lot. If that's your bag, you might enjoy Squadgod.com, the fantasy football site. It's free, and also has various widgety tools for integrating dream teams into your own blog or forum. I know not how they work, but then what I know about football would fit on the back of a pixel.
