- Arab society’s crunch points – Interesting talk about the Middle East and how change might be made. Hint: it doesn't involve "regime change."
- iPhone-to-iPad development: How’s the timing going to work out? – "We have very little guidance on how iPad apps should behave, and if we want our apps to be in the store at its launch, we have to do the majority of development without ever running our code on a real iPad (or even having used one)."
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My delicious.com bookmarks for June 15th through June 22nd
- Apple iPhone Developers Mostly Don't Make Much Money – "Martin surveyed 100 development teams, received 85 usable responses, and found that 52% of the developers had earned less than $15,000 for their efforts and 33% earned less than $250." Missed this one when it was first published. Bizarre to think that I'm doing better than a third of other iPhone developers!
- Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple – "When the relationship’s power is so lopsided, the only sensible reason to stay in it is trust. If we can reasonably trust Apple to use its power reasonably and fairly, we can sustain the imbalance."
- Don't call what happened in Iran last week an election – Christopher Hitchens' take on the recent events in Iran.
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 4th through July 9th
- Wall-E: One giant beep for mankind – "Pixar's films have always outstripped those of Dreamworks – maker of the Shrek series, among others – because they contain universal truths rather than a series of swiftly dated cultural in-jokes."
- How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand – Is evolution not the natural way forward? An alternate take would be: how do the French think that they can mandate changes in language?
- Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history – "Iraq is being forced to sell 75% of its national patrimony to pay the bills for its own illegal invasion and occupation."