Googlephone No Match for Kafkaesque Carriers: These carrier contracts are really hurting phone manufacturers. I'd love to try out a Palm webOS phone, but I don't want to get locked into some crappy 2 year contract just to play around with a new phone.
inessential.com: Email init: Interesting idea, but honestly I'm pretty happy with Apple's Mail.app.
Dear Flash plugin, love OSX: I can't agree with this enough.
Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News: You know that I'm a big Jon Stewart fan:
"For decades, young reporters would ask themselves, "What would Walter think?" Nowadays, it's not the memory of Walter Cronkite or even Edward R. Murrow that motivates some reporters — it's more often the fear that the stories they put out today might get picked apart by Jon Stewart tomorrow."
Links for Sunday January 17th, 2010