Linked List: October 6, 2008

Monday, 6 October 2008

The New Yorker’s detailed endorsement of Barack Obama for president. A persuasive read for anyone still undecided.

New command-line tool from Keith Alperin: you give it a filename extension, defaultapp tells you which app will open it by default.

I think it’s finally starting to hit people that the iPhone is the first mainstream consumer mobile computing platform.

Update: Dan Frommer clarifies that the iPhone accounts for half of Pandora’s growth, not half its usage.