Molly Ivins, RIP

From the NYT

After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that America was engaged in a cultural war, she (Ivins) said his speech “probably sounded better in the original German.”

Booya!

Per YouTube, this video was made for internal consumption at Kodak. Showing remarkable humor, they released it publicly.

Four minutes of business humor.

Ten Years? That's nothing...

Dave Winer is (justifiably) boasting of his pending 10 year blogging anniversary. Of course, some of us started the year before... :-)

Steve Jobs Hates Java, Gruber Agrees

On daringfireball

Jobs may well be spinning with his statements regarding third-party iPhone apps in general (and I hope he is), but his disdain for Java is completely straightforward. Java is no more relevant to iPhone app development than it is to Mac app development. iPhone apps are written in Cocoa and are designed specifically for the iPhone user interface. Cross-platform crippity-crap Java apps would stick out just as sorely on the iPhone as they do on the Mac.

(emphasis mine)
Crippity-crap Java Apps.
Sigh.

Spectators at the iPhone Display

Spectators at the iPhone Display
Originally uploaded by x180.

This is the reception I want the next time I ship a product.

Nice round-up on the iPhone here.

David Pogue is funny here.

Padmasree Warrior, Motorola's CTO, responds to the iPhone in a non-snarky, balanced way. Very classy for a competitor. She also models how a senior executive can communicate with her customers.

Can't these people just home-school and leave us alone?

School board folds when banjo pickers complain. (apologies to the banjo players in the audience)

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

The issue isn't Frosty, he's free to be as ignorant as he'd like, the issue is the school board folding so easily.