This just arrived from dear reader Dave, a long-time friend of the blog. Much love, Dave. Here’s wishing you a happy solstice holiday.

Somehow in all the craziness last week I missed this bit of news. Strand Consult, which is just one Apple-hating guy from Denmark, has been on a longtime crusade trying to derail iPhone. His latest insane claim is that iPhone users are suffering from a form of Stockholm Syndrome. They call it “iPhone syndrome.” Of course this is classic fanboy bait, and as always, the hacks are falling for it — here is 9to5Mac on the report, plus CNET, and TUAW,

Much love to dear reader Scott for sending this along. FWIW, Ja’Red just stuck his head into my office and he’s like, Hey, um, how long do you think it will take until they figure it out? I’m like, Figure what out? He goes, How long until all these pissed off iPhone users realize that you’re the reason they’re stuck with AT&T? I mean hasn’t it occurred to you that one day they’re just going to wake up and figure that out? My answer came in two parts: A, The reason we’re making so much noise about AT&T is so we can keep the attention over there instead of on us; and B, Who told you that an admin was supposed to come in here and discuss strategy with me, and now please go get me a friggin chai latte and I swear to God I am going to measure the temperature with my thermometer and if it is not exactly one hundred and sixty five degrees I am going to flip the fuck out! He’s like, Yeah, yeah, whatever, but you wait and see, they’re going to figure it out.

It’s real. iPhone Savior has all the details.

Also, every time you buy a Dell, a baby seal dies.

No kidding. The guys who ran the OpChoke Facebook page and Web site have designed a T-shirt. Get yours here.

Maybe you’ve seen the stories where AT&T flacks say Operation Chokehold “had no impact at all today.” Maybe you feel like it was all for nothing. If so, check out these charts.

First chart is AT&T’s stock price over the past three months. Hey, the’ve been kicking ass since they reported that strong quarter in late October, with “record wireless gains.”

But what’s that sudden change of direction at the far right side? Let’s take a look at the chart for the past five days:

Huh. Suddenly the shares go down. Now, it’s no big deal. Over the whole week, shares were down just 73 cents. Who cares about that, right? I mean, when you multiply that 73 cents by AT&T’s 5.9 billion shares outstanding, you’re looking at a drop in market value of $4.3 billion.

Yeah. No impact at all. And it probably had nothing to do with that blitz of bad publicity. Nah. Couldn’t be. Oh well.

Enjoy this:

Yeah. That was interesting. Above is a photo of a longtime reader, Faddah, listening to Pandora in a cafe in Portland, Oregon.

Oh, and Randall Stephenson just called, and he was like, “Nyah nyah! Great job, Gandhi! Ha! All you did was make us look great! Thanks a lot, loser!”

Well, he’s right. Sigh.

Now I intend to go take some peyote and get a high colonic. I shall never speak of this again. Nor should you. Peace be upon you.

I’m kidding. This is a screen grab from last night on The Situation Room. From what I can see on the Facebook page for the O.C. group, it’s hard to tell whether anything is happening. Some believe they’re seeing a slowdown, but others are getting superfast downloads.

Also: The leader of the Facebook movement (one of the Three Musketeers) will be on ABC tonight at 6 p.m. Pacific time.