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I’ve been looking forward to the iPhone OS 3.0 release for a while now, and today’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference keynote gave some final confirmations on features and a release date: June 17.

I’m getting an awful lot of the features I’d hoped for, including:

• Safari: Remembers and auto-fills login info, opens links in a new page, JavaScript gets a big speedup, offline storage for web apps.
• Mail/SMS/etc.: Landscape (large) keyboard available all over the main apps.
• MMS: Finally!
• Tethering: connect a Mac or PC via USB or Bluetooth and share the 3G internet love.

There’s also some stuff I’d like that just wasn’t to be, at least not yet:

• Flash: It’s like crack for web developers, but with HTML 5 features (video, audio, offline storage) and faster JavaScript we may be at a tipping point where “real web” takes back cool apps from “Flash web”, so I care a little less.
• Voice Dial: Sounds like the new iPhone 3G S will have it, but not my 3G. Boo.
• Bluetooth file transfer: I guess they’re not down with OPP (or GOEP, or FTP)…
• Better App Management: No categories or dragging icons around in iTunes, but at least Spotlight search will let us find and launch instead of flicking left and right over and over and over and…
• Better App Store rating/searching: Ooh. Parental controls. Still no filtering or reordering search results, though.

All in all, not bad. Could have been better, but still pretty damn good progress for a year’s work.

But I’ve digressed. I come not to praise Apple but to kick AT&T squarely in the nutsack. Repeatedly. Until my foot hurts.

Here comes the WTF.

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This week, the boys sing the praises of cracked.com, Tim praises the film “Up,” the boys find plot holes in the Terminator series, talk life and death in comic books (Batman, Captain America, and Wolverine), Glenn Beck and Tim cry like little bitches, the boys talk TV (Mentalist, Psych, Royal Pains, Burn Notice, and Mythbusters), the boys almost ruin their marriages, the fickle nature of TV cancellation is lamented, Todd and Mike send in internet sites to waste more of your time, and the show runs out of gas right at the end.

This week’s TANlaugh were submitted by Jo, Todd, and Mike.
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Van from the Netcot podcast slums it to join the TANboys for the 1 year anniversary of TANcast. The guys discuss the perils of mocking Louisiana, internet fame, parenting, Disneyland, Disney’s California Adventure, Churro stands, how termites foiled a move to Hawaii, the origins of Netcot, Van’s secret podcast idea, TANcast Savings plan, the pox on radio that is Delilah, stupid websites to waste your time, pros and cons of working at Google, the rhetorical boner, Ninja Rape verses Superman rape, GI Joe still looks shitty, Tim: Disneyland Nanny, and the winner in Money vs. Happiness.

Bonus: Tim offends all of Canada and Mexico in under a minute!!!

This week’s TANlaugh was submitted by Jo, Alissa, Jo, and Alissa
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There is a Park and Ride on my way to work that I have started to use to save money, be green etc. For those that don’t know, a Park and Ride is a parking lot that is located along a major bus route usually. I found out today that they are expanding the parking lot and it was supposed to open today. The plan was that they expand the Park and Ride lot and then move the bus stop from the road next to the lot, to inside the parking lot. Making it nice and convenient for passangers. There was just one snag in their master plan. The buses don’t fit into the parking lot. At least that is what I heard a passanger say, I didn’t fact check.

If this is true, that is such a massive. It is not like one guy fucked up, a whole group of people fucked up. Someone had to draw up the plans, someone had to sign off on the plans, the plans had to be presented and approve I am sure,  someone who builds things on a regular basis had to look at them at start the building process. I am not sure how bad it is, maybe the diffrence of one inch made it impossible for the buses to get through but damn, I am sure this is costing someone a lot of money.

I did a quick google search and the parking lot addition cost 8.3 million.

Oops.

First the good news: We DID get Van to guest host on our show for our 1 year anniversary and he was awesome (as you might expect)

Unfortunately, due to audio quality problems, I’m not going to be able to get the episode posted today like I normally do. I’ve been editing for almost 5 hours and so far I still haven’t even begun assembling the show…just trying to ring some intelligibility out of the audio.

I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to do that and get the show up on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 …which would be appropriate since (according to  iTunes) our first show was posted on June 2, 2008.

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Over the last 6 months, we have had just shy of 50% more visits from New Orleans than from the next most represented city (Richmond). The Big Easy almost doubles Los Angeles, where one of us lives. It’s responsible for more than 10 times the traffic that Atlanta (the city, not the metro area) sends our way. There have been over 20% more visits from NOLA than from the entire UK.

I’m formulating a theory on this. It involves how much better we sound when you’ve had some hot jazz and room-temperature bourbon…

Last night I decided stopping my stomach from growling immediately was worth more than my long term health, so I stopped in at a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut to do some serious damage to my innards.

Then I noticed this place was hiring when I saw this:

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For those of you who haven’t heard, the California Supreme Court upheld the ban on same sex marriage today. So I was at a bar tonight waiting for a show to start and one of the TV’s had a news show won where supporters of Prop 8 were speaking. I have spent the last hour trying (unsuccessfully) to find the video of what I saw, because when I quote what the fool said, you’re going to think I made it up.

A Black Leader of some sort was at the podium and said basically, “The Black family has enough troubles facing it. That’s why we must stop gay marriage because it is a potential threat to Black families.”

Are you kidding me?! Gay marriage is a “threat” to Black families? How?! How the hell is that possible?!

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TANcast returns to form with rambling discussions of Angels and Demons, disgusting sex terms, paintballing with racists, Portal (the game), Wolverine (also the game), season finales of CSI, 24, Lost, Panda Express as payment for favors, the promise and pitfalls of social networking sites, problem co-workers, a special guest for our 1 year anniversary show (next week), tales of woe from the dentist’s chair, and problems with porn.

This week’s TANlaugh was submitted by Mike Dawson
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So I just recently flew across the country from top to bottom and from left to right…’cause I’m a jet-setter, yo! But I had a weird moment of clarity while making my reservations for my final flight home from Boston…

Why is it cheaper to fly somewhere with a layover than with a direct flight? Why is it more expensive for me to get on a plane and then get off where I want to go than it is for me to get on a plane, get off somewhere I have no interest in being, get on another plane and finally fly to where I wanna be?

The airline company now has to pay two flight crews, fill two planes with fuel, plus give me two bags of those peanuts. How does that save them money that they can then pass those savings along to me? Seems to me like they’d have to spend more money.

But wait it gets weirder…if I just wanted to take the flight to the place I didn’t want to be…the EXACT same flight…it costs more than the two flight combo that will take me all the way to where I want to be.

Someone needs more oxygen to their brain

Let me break this down for the absurdity that it is (The below numbers are all for the SAME airline on the SAME day):

Me taking a direct flight from LA to Boston: $174
Me flying from La to Denver to Boston: $100
Me Flying just from LA to Denver: $119 (same flight as the first flight above)

So If you want to fly to Denver, it’s CHEAPER to tell them that you want to fly to Boston…but then just never get on the second plane. You’ll save almost 20 bucks and give some lucky passenger some extra elbow room.

I guess common sense is not among the things available for sale in the Sky Mall catalog.