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Linked List: December 19, 2006

Coming in January: ‘Month of Apple Bugs’ 

Brian Krebs reports that the guy behind November’s “Month of Kernel Bugs” is planning a similar stunt for January, this time featuring a daily stream of “previously undocumented security hole[s] in Apple’s OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it”.

‘Wildly Innaccurate’ 

Philly Ryu on my MacHeist numbers:

I think it’s important to note how wildly inaccurate his estimations are. Seriously. Doubling his estimation of dev fees would bring it closer to reality, but even then, not quite.

Doubling the developer fees I reported would reduce MacHeist’s share of the profits from 87 to 75.

The Year in Media Errors and Corrections 

Regret the Error:

Gather ’round for our annual collection of the funny, shocking, sad and disturbing media errors and corrections from the past year.

AppDNA: Package Source Code Inside Mac OS X Applications 

Crazy recursive Xcode build script that lets the source code for an application live within the application’s own bundle. (Via Rentzsch.)

MGM Trying to Screw Rogers Cadenhead out of ‘wargames.com’ Domain 

He’s had the domain since 1998; now that they’re making a sequel to 1983’s War Games, they’re trying to take it from him in court.

Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API 

Guess it’s a good thing I went with Yahoo’s API for Daring Fireball’s search.

They did call it a “beta”, though.