Herding Cats: Droid 2, Trekkie iPads and the Sex Appeal of iPhone Users

Did you know that in addition to inventing the cell phone, Star Trek invented the iPad? It's true. The fascinating story, including another one about sandwiches, after these messages.

Gizmodo: iPhone Users Have Twice As Much Sex As Android Users (Plus! Sexiest Cameras) - I'm sad to admit that we now have scientific proof that iPhones are indeed twice as sexy as Android phones. You'd have to pry my monstrous Droid X and its excellent Verizon signal coverage from my cold dead hands, so it looks like I'm doomed to near-celibacy relative to that of my slutty iPhone-having friends. Most of this article, though, is a guide to increasing your photogenic-ness with the right camera and optimum settings/environment. Gizmodo's conclusive advice for attracting a mate? "Use a decent camera. Go easy on the flash. Own the foreground. Take your picture in the afternoon. Then visit the nearest Apple store. Done."

MainStreet: Droid 2: Just Like Droid X, But Different - Be my aforementioned "Droid X honeymoon period" as it may, I definitely miss the physical keyboards of my previous two Verizon brickphones. For those of you who feel the same, the Droid 2 is probably for you. The specs of its guts are comparable to the Droid X, but it has the smaller standard 3.7" touchscreen with advanced slide-out QWERTY awesomeness, and ships with Froyo (Android OS 2.2) already installed. The DX and the D2 look poised to continue pummeling the iPhone in market share until their lovechild, the 4" Droid Pro, takes over near the end of 2010.

Ars Technica: How Star Trek Artists Imagined The iPad...23 Years Ago - Star Trek: The Next Generation is without a doubt one of the greatest television shows ever, having pioneered special effects and theoretical ideas for futuristic technology that were revolutionary for its era--all on a modest straight-to-syndication budget. It also bequeathed to us a phenomenal drinking game, which even has its own Facebook group with a thousand fans (some of the more liver-unfriendly events: crew gets trapped in the Holodeck = 3 drinks, shuttle crashes = 5 drinks, an Enterprise saucer separation = entire beverage, a Battle Bridge scene = finish the rest of the keg). And now, to honor the morally flawless Captain Jean Luc Picard, I give you quite possibly the most amazing video in existence. You're welcome.

Lifehacker: Battle Of The Streaming Music Services - In my opinion, Spotify and Last.fm are the best free music streaming sites, but their downfall--for audiophiles like me--is inherent to streaming itself. My digital music bitrate of choice is V0 VBR, which usually averages around 245kbps (once they make iPods with bigger hard drives that play FLAC files, which averages around 900kbps, I'll probably switch to that). Free streaming service bitrates, however, are much lower: Spotify streams at a semi-decent 160kbps, Last.fm comes in at a mediocre 128kbps, and I completely avoid Pandora because of its pathetic 64kbps rate. Until somebody upgrades to at least a V2 VBR stream (which averages around 190kbps), I'll stick to my underground digital music sources.

Consumerist: Mets Fan Sues Team, League, Players & Bat Maker After Getting Hit By Broken Bat - If the last decade of self-deprecating jokes from David Letterman and Jon Stewart are any indication, it's really tough being a Mets fan. The Amazins tore the hearts of their faithful to shreds with three straight years of gut-wrenching, season-ending, choke jobs from 2006-2008 and are currently hovering around .500 this year. None of that is any excuse, though, for suing every single human being involved because you got hit in the face by a shattered maple bat. My great uncle lost his sight in one eye to a shattered baseball bat, but he didn't sue anybody! Anyway, I'm pretty sure that just by purchasing a field-level ticket you agree to a built-in laundry list of injury waivers, so best of luck to this ambitiously-litigious Mets fan.

MSN Money: The 10 Most Economical Sandwiches - This dude went to some painstaking detail in his chart of exact sandwich costs, but it's kind of a moot point because you're probably going to eat a lot more than the standard serving size according to the nutritional info on all of the ingredients. So, if a standard PB&J costs just $0.31, how much do you think Double Wide costs? Or the monstrous Schnitzels and things? My guess is around $75,000 each--once you factor in your coronary bypass and other assorted medical care/expenses.

Better get to work on some sexy photography of yourself. Use a DSLR!