links for 2009-09-01

Why not act like a small business to win over consumers?

"So here, like so many other iPhone developers, we sit getting ass raped on 1-star reviews, which will haunt our application forever, and no recourse. None. Nobody at Apple will respond to us. My friends at Apple can’t do anything. I can’t respond to the 1-star reviews."

"If man wasn't meant to be wiped out by superior beings, what exactly was god up to in the old testament?"

"John Fetterman might have been called "America's coolest mayor" by a British newspaper, but it is an epithet he can live without." Cool mayor is a nice title.

"Billows of smoke and steam rise above Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida alongside space shuttle Discovery as it races toward space on the STS-128 mission." Just gorgeous.