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Who needs GPS when the latest iPhone update can pinpoint me down to the block without it? Thanks Apple!

Bumper sticker that hits it on the head: “Pro-life and Pro-war? I’m Anti-hypocrite, thanks.”

Have to stop thinking like a Rubyist when I’m writing PHP. Back to a Java mindset.

Writing PHP is like playing an old 80’s adventure game: you spend more time trying to figure out how to express the answer than you do answering the question!

Max 8 web pages open on your iPhone at any one time…bad news for Duncan.

On an Amtrak bound for nowhere…

Wow! Fucking hard-core clustering and spatial indexing across a server clouds. How Flickr does geotagging clusters.

Clay Shirkey's Web 2.0 Keynote

I’ve always liked Clay Shirkey.  Smart guy, pissed enough to be honest (or is that honest enough to be pissed), but there’s also a hint of optimism that makes him reasonable rather than unbearable. 

He gave a great keynote, but the story I liked the most was about a friend of his.  This friend was watching a DVD with his daughter when his daughter hopped up, ran around the back of the television, and started rummaging through the cables.  After a few minutes, dad asks her, “What are you doing?”

The little girl peeks her head out from behind the television.

“I’m looking for the mouse.”

Clay’s response is, paraphrasing, if it’s not interactive, it’s broken.  Television and traditional media outlets, and the world in general, need to realize that all the “free time” we have these days will be spent sharing and contributing to the social web.  That’s the essence of Web 2.0 and the future of social networks.