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An easter egg, it seems.

Perhaps event better: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured

I know a guy who's working on this: http://preacquaint.com

I believe "start of the art" is a pun, since he's using lame tech.

I like how they had the dialpad open to make the phone look more complex and less attractive. Nice touch.

The only thing I pirate anymore is Windows XP. It lives in a VM and only gets run for browser testing. Everything else is Free Software.

It entirely depends on the project. If your making a rich web application I think it's entirely justifiable to require ff, chrome, safari, opera, or IE9 (or earlier, with chrome tab).

To remove ambiguity, you could say months should be represented by December, days by the 31st, weeks by Friday, and so on. In that way it would be easy to implement and easy to write to. Then the case of "01-01-01" becomes "31-12-99", for example. Still easy to read, still easy to implement.

One can write good looking apps for Android. It's just not as easy as it is for iPhone. Having done both myself: on iPhone you can just throw together a bunch of default widgets to get the job done and your app will look pretty good. Doing the same on android.. not so much.

However, the latest apps out of Google (IO Schedule, Twitter) are using some of android's new UI patters, and they look good. Hopefully these new designs will be reflected more in the widgets shipped with 2.3.

I was walking around down there yesterday. Most street corners looks like this: http://twitpic.com/1zmuw8

See bazaar.canonical.com.

uh, apt-get install firefox-3.5

Works like a charm for me. Flash too.

I've actually been toying with doing this rather then email verification and a captcha for a social site. Would you find this more or less annoying then an email loop and a captcha?

It's a platform-as-service deal. Like Google App Engine but with JavaScript rather then Python.

I recently got the HTC Magic (G2). It's pretty sweet. The battery life is good, too. It lasts me all day with heavy use.

Into Google Reader it goes. In the "misc" folder with the lolcats...

Hmm, can this be used for only javascript? As in, I write my own html but use pyjamas to generate my js (which can manipulate the dom of my html).

I'm down with abstracting javascript (good riddance), but I like to be picky about html.