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ny times columnist david carr has written a book about his days as a junkie who cleaned himself up only when twin daughters came into his life. the times has a lengthy excerpt; it's possibly the best thing i've read all week.

if i said i was a fat thug who beat up wo and sold bad coke, would you like my story? what if instead i wrote that i was a recovered addict who obtained sole custody of my twin , got us off welfare and raised them by myself, even though i had a little touch of cancer? now we're talking. both are equally true, but as a member of a self-interpreting species, one that fights to keep disharmony at a remove, i'm inclined to tion my tenderhearted attentions as a single parent before i get around to the fact that i hit their mother when we were together. we tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually s out looking good in the process.

carr's book is not the conventional memoir. instead of relying on his spotty memory from his time as a junkie, he went out and interviewed his family, friends, enemies, and others who knew him at the time to get a more complete picture.

a former colleague interviewed carr two years ago in rake magazine. (via vsl)

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these leaked pics from what looks like some sort of apple or at&t marketing material give up lots more information on the phone, including (if it's real) what the final shape is going to look like. both the standard black version and the project (red) version have tapered edges, which match the "thinner" rumors, and a fatter middle, which match the "slightly thicker" rumors. other than that, the general shape and button design seem the same. what's really cool is the front camera, which allow for video calls.

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see you soon carlos!

what's black and red and bruised all over? a penguin rolling down a rocky hill.

i'm glad we didn't see the rest of carlos's chat with this lady.
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the 3g video chat allows iphone to iphone video communications on the fly via the front camera. according to the text, you can also chat with your ichat buddies if you're using wi-fi as well. . hit up crunchgear for the rest of the pics. the only weirdness that we can see is that the (red) version has no power toggle. here's hoping these leaked pics are real, because we're really stoked about that video conferencing feature (3g iphone toilet chats here we !). who knows if they are real, however, since they can be faked in ilrator and then taken pics of with an iphone camera.

update: that footnote on the ichat image says to us that ichat is coming for the iphone (text chat and video chat) and windows, with xp2 and vista as a base requiret. ichat on windows. that's not unbelievable, following in the steps of safari this past year. only makes sense that apple would want windows users being able to wi-fi video chat with their iphone buddies.

[ed note:although chen was diplomatic about it, and they're very pretty, i don't believe these are real for a second. ] [matt hickey's crunchgear]

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