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130 iPhone UI Icons for iPhone Applications | Web Resources | WebAppers "Glyphish provides 130 great icons for iPhone applications. They are designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, they are also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more." Nice. (tags: iphone icons webdesign design graphics) […]

Got Perfect Credit? You Could Be Charged For It! – wcbstv.com "The banks are starting to charge fees to reliable customers in response to a slew of new credit card industry regulations that will limit when banks can hike interest rates. Cardholders who get a new annual fee notice in the mail will be in […]

We Keep Finding Historically Significant Photos. Will Our Grandchildren? | Columnists | Mediaite "Imagine if there were an easy way for digital media to be preserved indefinitely for nearly no cost. What gems might future hobbyists and historians uncover, digging through an infinitely large pile of images at a point when they become publicly available? […]

The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com "Unlike the question that we are asking — How can we most efficiently cool the Earth fast? — the types of questions that environmentalists are trying to answer mix together both scientific issues and moral/ethical issues. If you have any doubts about this, watch Al […]

Onion foxy, Fox stinks | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine "Wait, remind me again: which one is the fake news organization? The Onion, or Fox?" (tags: mayan media journalism) Marco.org – Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia "Microsoft’s typical response to bad designs is to add text to explain them. Then, when that doesn’t work, add […]

Education is not the solution to all personal-finance problems | I Will Teach You To Be Rich "So when it comes to education, I start rolling my eyes when people suggest education is the magic bullet. Let’s get real, please. As heretical as it is to say in our society, “education” is not the panacea […]

The Web Spends 8 Billion Minutes Online Everyday Using Facebook "They’ve come up with a number of their own solutions to solve a massive scaling problem, and sometimes we (the users) see bugs as a result of that. But, in a world where the much smaller Twitter goes down regularly, Facebook’s relative stability is pretty […]

Op-Ed Columnist – The New Untouchables – NYTimes.com "That is the key to understanding our full education challenge today. Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do […]

Dilbert comic strip for 10/19/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. Easily distracted bosses. (tags: management humor dilbert comic) Official Google Blog: Flying in a WiFi wonderland: Free Internet from Google on Virgin America flights "We know the holiday season seems to come earlier every year (sorry, Halloween), but before you make your final […]

xkcd – A Webcomic – Bag Check Aren't security rules so inconvenient and inconsistent. (tags: security airline humor xkcd comic) Obama Aides Go on TV to Criticize Wall Street – NYTimes.com "Striking a populist tone, several of President Obama’s leading advisers on Sunday issued stern warnings to Wall Street. They said big banks must not […]