Linked List: August 27, 2007

Monday, 27 August 2007

Embattled U.S. Attorney General Resigns ★

I still say the most telling thing about the man is that Bush’s nickname for him is “Fredo”.

Not Even All That ‘Sweet’ for Web Apps ★

Craig Hunter on iPhone web app development:

Business aspects aside, the main issue I see as a traditional developer is that iPhone web app development is still very limited. Outside of some viewport settings, a couple special link types (really only the “tel:” link is new), and some new “-webkit” style attributes, there is little about making iPhone-specific web apps that differs from generic web apps. And that’s possibly the most disappointing aspect of all from my standpoint. Apple’s announcement states that “developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone”, but that’s not the case.

Amazon.com Category: ‘Bestselling Non-iPod Amazon.com MP3 Players’ ★

How’s this for a sign of the iPod’s continuing market dominance? A contest for second place.

(Thanks to reader Brian Lewis.)

Court Orders Movie Bootlegger to Switch to Windows ★

Guy serves five months in prison for uploading a copy of Revenge of the Sith to a torrent site; as a condition of his parole, he’s required to install monitoring software on his computer. He can choose whatever OS he wants as long as it’s Windows, since that’s the only OS the monitoring software works on.