Above is the Facebook profile of Mike Lee of Orlando, Florida.  Lee is a fan of Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele, and Senator Jim Bunning.  During the Facebook vanity URL rush, you would expect him to register the name “Facebook.com/Mike,” “Facebook.com/ MikeLee,” or something along those lines.  Surprisingly, he chose Facebook.com/ToddPalin instead.  Todd Palin is the husband of former VP candidate Sarah Palin.

Over 3 million user names were registered within several hours of the rush, but many of them are nowhere close to the actual names of people.  That is not surprising since many people do not use their real names on MySpace or on e-mail addresses. Facebook is now even starting to delete the user names of accounts that just seem off.  One account they recently deleted belonged to “Haywood.Jablome”

Some of the other entertaining usernames that were registered includes:
- RickRollNeverGonnaGiveYouUpNeverGonnaLetYouDown666
- Hades
- George Bush
- Limbaugh
- Wolfram

If you know of any other funny vanity name URLs, let us know in the comments.

The iPhone 3G S has started to ship according to AppleInsider.  The phones are shipping to the customers who were first at pre-ordering the phones last week.  ”My 32GB black iPhone that I ordered the second I could on the Apple iPhone store has officially shipped,” stated AppleInsider member DiscoNomad. “I found out this morning via an email which included a tracking number.”

The phones will be shipping out of Shenzhen, China.  Foxconn Electronics is rumored to be the company behind the manufacturing of the device.  There is no specific date of arrival of the phones, but the shipping notification implies that it should arrive no later than Friday June 19th.  That is the same day that phone will be available in retail stores such as AT&T, Best Buy, and the Apple Store.

This Wednesday Apple will be releasing the new iPhone OS 3.0 for all iPhones, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 3G S’, and iPod Touch devices.

The Warsash Maritime Academy in the United Kingdom has a program where pilots drive around miniature oil tankers in a pond.  Apparently the mini oil tankers are difficult to drive around and emergency situations are replicated.  Personally if you stuck me in one of these, I’d be too tempted to play a game of bumper boats.  Some of the emergency situations include a failing engine.  These miniature versions of a large tanker runs about $245,000 each.  Given the recent pirate attacks, I am wondering how the Academy will be able to replicates a similar emergency situation using these tiny tankers.

[via DVICE]

Mowing the lawn is never a fun activity unless it is mostly automated.  One of the most fun and fully-automated ways to mow the lawn will most likely be performed by using the Husqvarna Panthera Leo Mower.  This lawn mower is electric-powered and is made out of recycled materials.

The Husqvarna also has an LCD monitor and sensors built in.  The LCD uses the sensors to report how fast you are going and what height you should mow the lawn at.  The LCD also reports if you’re about to go up or down a hill or if you are able to smash into some sort of object.  This might be useful for those of you that are accident-prone.

Although the Panthera Leo is a concept, the company said that they plan on taking a similar concept to production within the next 5 years.

[via Jalopnik]

The specs of the Nokia N86 was announced back in February.  One of the biggest highlights of the phone is the speed that they were able to get it to the market.  Within two months, the N86 was announced, passed through the FCC, and hit retail shelves. The phone boasts an 8 megapixel camera and a sliding QWERTY keyboard.  There is also 8GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot.  The camera on the phone has a mechanical shutter, variable aperture, and a dual-LED flash.  There is also an FM transmitter, WiFi, Bluetooth support, and video-out capabilities.

The price of the phone unlocked is $524 unlocked.  The cost of the North American version of the phone with subsidies is not yet known.

[via CNET/Engadget]

Magellan has been out of the game for a while since they were acquired by MiTAC.  Now Magellan has announced their second product and it is called the RoadMate 1475T PND.  The RoadMate 1475T is basically a newer and more high-tech version of the RoadMate 1470.  The RoadMate 1475T specs include 4.7″ WQVGA anti-glare display, AAA TourBook listings, six million points of interest, spoken street names, highway lane assist, QuickSpell, and NAVTEQ maps.  The U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico are all supported.  The price of the device is about $299.

[via PRNewsWire]

Artype has designed a 16GB Mechanical Memory Key inspired by steampunk culture.  The device comes with a Purpleheart case and 26 rubies.  When the USB device is plugged in to a computer, it glows in green.  The cost of the Artype 16GB Mechanical Memory Key is about $165.

[via BBG/Engadget]

Gather.com is a service focused on making new friends and forming new social circles.  The company is based in Boston, Mass. and has announced that they have raised $5.3 million in funding from Allen & Co., American Public Media, Jim Manzi (former CEO of Lotus), Jack Connors (former CEO of Hill Holiday), Kevin McClatchy, Andrew Tobias, and the Gerace family.

Gather had increase sales of about 49% in the first quarter over the same period about a year ago.  Gather raised VC funding because they needed additional capital to help fund operations.  Based on the current run rate, the company expects to be profitable by early 2010.

This round of funding puts the company’s total at about $25 million.  Most of the investors that participated in this round had participated in previous rounds as well.

[via NEVC Funding]