Verizon does not like twitter. Verizon does not like sms’ing twitter. Verizon does not like mobile web 2.0′ing twitter. 

Does the developing world need one laptop per child or one really useful cellphone per child? Look at the revolution going on in Africa thanks to cell phones (google search)? And would that actually be cheaper than having one laptop per child? How much does a cellphone actually cost? How much would a cell phone with an 800×480 screen actually cost? Could a base device (processor, screen) be built with snap-in components (snap on a wifi component, a camera)?

Martin Legris has figured out a way to load images from a domain without a crossdomain.xml file, but you can’t draw that object to BitmapData.

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc)

If you want to copy the Core Reference documentation for xcode so you can read the html on a device like the Archos 605, go to /Developer/Documentation/DocSets, right click on com.apple.ADC_Reference_Library.CoreReference.docset, select “Show Package Contents”. This will open a finder window with the contents in it. Copy Contents/Resources/Documents to the device/media of your choosing. This is assuming that you have xcode installed on your mac.

Archos is making a netbook, and a tablet… http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/archos-shows-ne.html

To convert an audio file to caf format for iPhone apps, use “afconvert” from the terminal (afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 -c 1 in.wav out.caf). Found at link.