Smart thinking from Lukas Mathis, as usual. A good rule of thumb.

It feels like Jeff Moser comes up for air every six months and drops a computer science bomb. This is one of those times. Get ready to learn (or re-learn) your stats.

Cogent rebuttal to <a href="http://www.marco.org/441168915">Marco Arment's realism post</a> by Neven Mrgan.

Comprehensive review of the state of Internet video. Required reading for anyone who believes, like me, that HTML5 is poised to overtake Flash. There are a lot of hurdles to be cleared before that happens.

Old school (like Nintendo-era) iPhone game from Shaun Inman. Tentatively scheduled for holiday 2010 release. I'm not convinced touch is a superior input mechanism over the tradition directional pad plus buttons, but the game itself looks fantastic.

Reminds me of the Old World / New World post from Steven Frank. Good stuff.

Nathan Bowers nails it. I hope 37signals drops the spammy tweet requirement. It's an unfortunate blemish on an otherwise exceptional company's reputation.

Terrific article, as always, by Rands. Understanding people is hard work.

I don't know about the competing with the iPhone part, but good news for WebKit. Also, welcome to 2006, RIM.

Sage advice from David Sherwin: the success of your project depends on sussing out who's is ultimately responsible for approving each deliverable. Don't neglect this critical step.

Jeremy Keith thinks the iPad will be the best-selling device for Christmas this year as people realize that using normal computers is actually really hard. Also, he hates Flash.

All of Jeff's excellent quotes are from people who sell products. At Full Stop, we work with clients who in turn are responsible for generating their own profits, which means we must work all the harder to not only remember ourselves that execution is all that matters but to convince each and every client to adopt that mantra.

Absolutely, 100% agree. The difference between a computer with a standard HDD and one with a blazing fast SSD is night and day. I've loudly and publicly professed my love for the bargain OCZ Vertex I picked up a few weeks back. It's that good.

Slow and steady at best.

The hits keep rolling in from Jeffrey Zeldman. Tardiness is inexcusable. Plan to be there early so at worst you arrive on time.

Jamie Kasoy urges developers to group hug and work it out. I'm all for it, but it won't change anything. The Wheels of Progress are turning. (See my comment at the bottom. Read from the bottom up. The newest are on top. It threw me the first time.)

It's a shame Zeldman had to clarify what should have been perfectly clear from his original post on Flash and the iPad. That said, read it. He hits every major point that made me write my original post. (Furthermore, these facts are obvious and have been for quite some time. He and I were hardly the first to say them.)

Fantastic article from Lukas Mathis on removing features. One hundred percent true.

Mike Davidson just said "price elasticity." You know the way to an economics major's heart, Mike.

Jack's right. "Democratization of content product is a powerful force." Let's hope the centralization of that power in Apple's hands doesn't make us regret it. (For the record, it will and it won't. There will be controversies, but there are plenty of places to read things online without resorting to the iBook store.)

Good advice for any platform.

Wondering why I even bother writing articles when people like Faruk are around to say it better.

Zeldman weighs in. Little new to add, but it's another voice in the chorus.

And now for something not iPad related, Google is no longer supporting the decrepit browser known as Internet Explorer 6 in certain applications. It's a small step forward and long overdue. The battle against IE 6 is nearing completion.

Omni, one of the most revered Mac development companies, is betting the iPad is going to be huge. They could be wrong, of course, but it's a very healthy sign.

Let me be the most-recent among many to second Fraser Speirs' diatribe. Computers are supposed to make your life easier not just provide you with a powerful but capricious robotic servant. While the iPad (and whatever class of computers it ushers in) will not eliminate the frustrating user interfaces, incompatibilities and general shoddiness of old, it re-lays the foundations and renews the possibilities. Eventually entropy demands the system make allowances for complexity and weeds will inevitably creep into Mr. Jobs meticulous garden of computing Eden, but the pre-iPhone OS purge has been necessary and good. The future awaits.

Miguel de Icaza nails the reasons the iPad ought to be a runaway success regardless (or thanks to?) its closed nature: price, multi-touch centric, standard hardware, the App store, and the new, larger form factor.

Dave Winer distrusts Apple. It's hardly newsworthy, but his challenge is laudable. "Is it possible to create an iPad-like platform that has none of the drawbacks of Apple's offerings?" I say no. The coordination, taste, planning, and resources required have thus far proven quite beyond the open-source community's wherewithal. If Winer's white-knight exists, it can only be Google, and let no one doubt, Google has its own agenda that will eventually conflict with the philosophical purity held dearly by him and his ilk. (I wish that weren't the case, but it is.)

Gina Tripani claims people will hack regardless of the security measures in place or the legality of such actions. I suppose they will, but these restrictions certainly put a damper on the community. Looking on the bright side, the Internet has made communication among like-minded hackers exceedingly easy.

A useful counter-perspective on the iPad from Mark Pilgrim. Sanctioned hackability is one way Google can steal developers and users from Apple.

Love the classList feature. No more regex!

Alex Payne's dismayed by the closed system Apple is perpetuating. I agree, but isn't our new prison beautiful? Apple is dragging users and developers into the next century whether they like it (users do) or not (a few outspoken developers). I say, good for them. Let Canonical or Google or Microsoft step up and provide an equally compelling but open alternative, if such is possible.

Buried beneath the avalanche of iPad specific news, it appears Apple has removed the VoIP restriction for native apps. Naturally, this is a big deal for the iPhone. If we're lucky, we'll even see Google Voice arrive soon. I'd argue this is potentially an even bigger deal for the iPad, you know, the big iPod Touch that ships without the ability to make phone calls. Now if Apple will just enable applications to run in the background …

Derek envisions a device that revolutionizes the publishing industry the same way the iPod revolutionized music sales.

Kind of a big deal. And more proof Google is betting the company (if that were possible) on advancing open web technologies.

I hesitate to link to the New York Times, but, uh, yeah, what they said.

Looks like a good list to me.

Controls on the back of the tablet, where your fingers wrap around? That's brilliant.

Bottom-line: "It’s about visitors needs, not yours."

I can't decide if this is huge or irrelevant. Either way, it's a positive sign for the future of HTML.

Pushing browser features forward with or without vendor support is the past, present, and future.

Splitting into teams and breaking the schedule into cycles

I doubt Thorium is the energy panacea, but it certainly sounds cool.

More evidence football's headed for some big changes.

Andy's right. Expecting the site to look the same in all browsers is rarely the client's perspective. Too often we introduce that requirement internally. It's beyond time to move on.

An incredibly long and meandering look at the value of PHP and it's concomitant attitude.

Reading. Something I need to do more.

Behold the swelling momentum of new fonts on the web.

The best browser on the web gets it right, contra Gruber.

Depressing news from Jeffrey Zeldman on the near-term viability of @font-face font embedding.

John Gruber explains why <video> isn't ready yet.

Just listen to Seth.

A cogent rebuttal to Andy's anti-wireframe manifesto.

Helpful walk-through of Apple's checkout form by Luke Wroblewski.

Couldn't agree more. Application development is not merely a handy skill to have, but an essential skill moving forward. (NB: that goes double for mobile development.)

Another tool in the iPhone web developer's toolkit.

Been saying this for years. All hail the mighty API.

More hot CSS animation action. Thank you Tim Van Damme.

Just subscribe to this man's feed. P.S. I'm always blue too.

Marketing advice from Eric Karjaluoto. In short, be real.

Matt Mullenweg with a collection of PHP aphorisms. I might have missed the point, but I enjoyed reading, er, skimming it.

David adds another log to the living-in-the-digital-moment-rots-your-mind fire, not that he would say it like that (nor, really, would anyone else — it's quite a mouthful). I can't disagree, especially when Dosteovsky and McLuhan are referenced.

More CSS ammo for those willing to use it.

If only these hacks, hints, and tips weren't so necessary.

Sounds like a great idea. I'll, uh … get right on that.

Right or wrong, David Sherwin has a gift for the anecdotal. This time it's all about planning and maintaining flow. That said, he's right — as usual.

Useful overview of an often mysterious process.

If hand-coding semantic markup for search engines and browsers that can't take advantage of it is your thing, Jeremy Keith's got a tempest in a teapot just for you.

Jeff slams microformats, then admits he's using them anyway. I sympathize.

Righteous-sounding corporate mottos and promises are easy. Daily ethical decisions are hard.

I'd better check my reset.

It's incredible how frequently clients mistake wireframes for polished designs. Andy's right, there must be a better way.

It's about time. I can imagine getting a lot of use out of this. We'll see if my imagination is anywhere close to reality.

I can't swing the $10 for the Pro version, but looks like a great app. The free version rocks.

More 24 ways. This time, how typeface influences design by Dan Mall.

Of course Wordpress supports custom post types as soon as I finish hacking together a blog that relies completely on custom post types.

Window management interface compilation from Luke Wroblewski.

Lukas Mathis' take on Stripes, a conceptual operating system's user interface.

We're all over that HTML5 thing.

"Improvement is an incremental process." So true, and something I need to constantly remind myself.