By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch’s introduction to PyObjC. See also: Rentzsch’s notes on the article.
There’s rampant speculation that Apple and Google are on the cusp of announcing some sort of deal to connect the ITMS to Google. For example, as of this writing, if you go to http://google.com/itunes, you’ll get redirected a few times and land at an AdWords marketing page; whereas http://google.com/whatever generally results in a 404 (“Not Found”) error for most cases of “whatever”.
Good Groklaw article on the state of U.S. patent law and the recent news that Microsoft secured a patent on parts of the iPod user interface — with a patent application filed six months after the original iPod debuted.