In a moment we've been waiting for since the first time we saw The Jetsons, the first flying car has finally gone on sale. Just like the car George uses to drop off the kids, the Moller M200G Volantor is shaped like a saucer. To avoid the need to pass FAA regulations, the civilian version of the Volantor is restricted to heights of 10 feet, but can travel as fast as 50mph and fly for up to 90minutes.

Moller has been at this for years, made a lot of announcements, yet never delivered.

iPhone availability is not guaranteed at time of appointment.

Two Democratic members of the Federal Communications Commission have lent their support to an open-access wireless network proposal, giving it a majority backing, but stopped short of supporting a broader provision proposed by Google.

Why am I not surprised?

I'm already using mowser for the links on my mobile blog, but now I'm also using some of its PHP code to display thumbnails.

Russ gave me some of his code for generating thumbnails on the fly. The funny thing is that Russ and I originally met online when I sent him some Java code to create thumbnails for a scrapbook webapp he had created. I guess he's returning the favor.

Thanks, Russ!

According to Net Applications, in June

Windows Vista accounted for 4.52% of all systems that browsed the Web, up from January's 0.18%. Vista has grown its usage share each month since its release to consumers Jan. 30, hitting 0.93% in February, 2.04% in March, 3.02% in April and 3.74% in May. Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, accounted for 6.22% in January and hit its high point of 6.46% in May, but it slipped back to 6% in June.

Does it mean that Mac users are surfing less and less, yet Apple is selling more macs?

Although there were only two days left to Q2 when Apple began selling the iPhone, that appeared to be enough to help boost profits and revenues…With the June 29 launch of the iPhone, AT&T activated 146,000 iPhone subscribers, more than 40 percent of them new to AT&T.

146K activations is a far cry from 500K. Did a lot of people buy iPhones and not (or could not) activate them?

A Shreveport attorney who has challenged the government for years on the legality of filing federal income taxes has been acquitted on charges he failed to file returns.

It'll probably be overturned in appeal, even though he's most likely right.