SPX?

I just read that Kate Beaton is going to be at the SPX / Small Press Expo in Bethesda two weekends from now. I'm considering going down there for a day trip; it'll probably cost me up to $225 for round trip transport, food, and admission, and it'll be about 9-10 hours of transport time by train, bus, and cab. It's an all day affair on Saturday, so I'd have an 10/7 ratio of travel time to fun, as I probably wouldn't arrive there until Noon.

Is meeting Kate and checking out other small press stuff worth 34 bucks an hour? I'd surely be able to use the travel time to work too...

New iPhone feature please

I would like to be able to select the application I wish to launch when pressing the home button. Ideally I would like to quickly double click the home button and launch Camera, so that I can take a quick picture when I need to. For that matter, it would be nice to tie Camera's button to the home button as well. It's too hard to target that button without haptic feedback.

Shop 'Til Bush Drops

Do you like John Cusack? Do you like money? Do you like John Cusack with money?

http://3trillion.org/carts/58413

I've posted this before, but it seems more timely now, seeing as how the economy's collapsing and what not. There needs to be a "restore the economy" option in there that one could buy four or five times for the cost of the Iraq Occupation.

This time I bought:

Rice for All (everyone in the world)
Desalination Plants
Fight AIDS in Developing Nations
Achieve Universal Literacy (everyone in the world)
End hunger and poverty related diseases (just in case the rice wasn't enough)
1 Eee Pc for EVERY person on earth

TOTAL: $2,868,800,000,000.00