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Apple wants to dominate the mobile world with WebKit, postulates He, Cringely Digg this.
Tironius posted this story Saturday, December 08, 2007

Cringely makes a good point on why we haven’t seen Flash come to the iPhone, yet.

Read more of “I, Cringely”Had Apple allowed a Flash player on the iPhone, it risked having Flash — rather than the Apple-preferred Ajax — become the dominant iPhone web application development environment. … but Apple wants to control its own destiny, zigging and zagging as it likes to crush competitors, hence WebKit [11. Instead of Flash.].

Flash kiosks, if you’ve noticed, never have fluid animation or rich experiences, and always put, well, flash over substance. San Francisco’s Westfield Shopping Center’s interactive directory seems to use flash for its touch-screen wayfinding, and it sucks. It’s almost a nice UI, but whenever I push a button, animation takes a long time to respond and it’s about three frames per second. That’s what you always expect when applications are built in Flash. And it is beneath iPhone.

And why would Apple want to be shackled to Adobe for the most revolutionary device to have been produced in the past decade? Fuck that. Cringely a long time ago made an excellent suggestion that Apple buy Adobe. Why worry whether Photoshop is available on OS X when they can take steps to ensure it would be.

Cringely yada-yadas on to predict that Apple is revealing a tablet computer using multi-touch mojo at Macworld ‘08.

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The Shadowy Underside of Korea

Back at my shoes [the hooker] compliments me on my penis size. “I like Americans — they are kind to women.” The comment’s irony isn’t lost on me.

Our field reporter experiences Korea’s oldest profession.

iWeb Tutorial:
Create Aqua Buttons

Photoshop is overkill; use iWeb to more easily create aqua buttons like those in OS X.

The Cat Came Back

She was devoutly religious – fanatically so, but she had the habit of wearing a mid-thigh length army camouflage mini-skirt that seemed to scream “Someone, anyone, please fuck me!”

Blogger Kurippi get’s his comeuppance when a sexploit goes awry in Korea.

K-Line Colamite

“I got on and sat my beautiful glutes in a row of two unused seats facing forward, taking the window seat. It’s a good thing, too, because a perfectly poundable Asian pussy rested its lips on the seat next to me.”

10,010% Success

Are you tired of living a 90% awesome life? Or are you one the lucky few whose life is just ‘mega-awesome.’ (yawn.) Well get ready to blow awesome and mega-awesome away with my newest book and CD series.

Night With BG

So I looks around, to see if it’s clear.
Then I says, “damn girl, it’s gettin hot in here.”
I pull down my draws, unfold my lollypop,
Lean in and whisper, “I’ll tell you when to stop.”

Set to Warren G’s ‘Regulate,’ blogger Bang Ganger sets the defiling of a woman’s body to rhyme.

Trip to N Korea

The DMZ itself is infested with landmines and anyone trying to make it across would not make it very far. Covered in guard towers on both sides, you often find yourself being watched by N Korean soldiers.

Pounders blogger Kurippi visits the border of North-South Korea, trips and falls into communism.

‘Pounder’ Redefined

At The Big Word Project — to match what we do in real life — we have redefined the word “pounder.”