"I am going to explain for beginning iPhone/iPod Touch developers how to build the most basic Cocoa Touch application using Interface Builder and an application delegate in xcode 3.1."

"Everything in this world is interwoven with everything else. Every decision, action or idea comprises a dilemma. People are complex and contradictory and sometimes paradoxical. And so are all things on this planet.

My designs tell stories about complexities, in the present and the future. My work is meant as a statement about technologies and how we (might) deal with these. The objects I create are simple. This makes a lot of sense."

CC-aware Flickr search tool

"Most Americans feel that companies should have a presence on social media sites, and many feel that they should actively interact with customers through those sites. Those are just some of the findings of the 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study, which said that 93 percent of Americans expect to see companies online where the users are—on social networking and other media sites."

Somewhat pointless in that there's no such thing as a definitive list of the "Greatest" films - "greatest" is far too subjective. But useful for populating a Lovefilm list nonetheless.

"A stunning new twist in the story of Capa's iconic war image shows that authenticity is more than just an artistic criterion"

"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself."

Browser-based Endnote-like citation manager - worth downloading if only because Thomson Reuters are bullying the author with a C&D action.

Setting up VMWare image to run 3 browsers

Another online identity aggregation service. Unless I'm missing something fundemental, how is this different to any of the others - and WHY would I want put all my identity eggs in the one basket?

"Judged by the amount of money directly dependent on it, the British Bankers’ Association’s London Interbank Offered Rate matters more than any other set of numbers in the world…
…The calculation of Libor is co-ordinated by just two people, who work in an unremarkable open-plan office in London’s Docklands."

Utterly fascinating explanation of how LIBOR is calculated, and why it's so important. Fascinating in a scary kind of way, because it's one of those artificial - and basically fictional - constructs that our civilisation is based on…

"PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. We're trying to make iPhone app development easy and open. For many applications a web application is the way to but in Safari you don't get access to the native iPhone APIs, and the that's the problem we're trying to solve."

More press-release-regurgitated-as-journalism:"A new out-of-hours service that allows pupils to receive homework tips from "virtual teachers" is being piloted in Clackmannanshire.

Pupils at Alva Academy will trial a "vodcasting" system in the first project of its kind in Scotland."

So nothing like a virtual teacher then, a better description might actually be "pupils to get access to videos of lessions". Just because it's on an iPod doesn't make it revolutionary…

"With Drop.io Location, you can now assign a physical world address or location to any drop.io drop. Once your drop is assigned an address, you can then access the content of
your drop from that particular location via a GPS enabled BlackBerry® device, a Loki enabled browser or our iPhone application (currently in private beta)."

Like the sound of this; could be useful for ARG-ish type stuff

Text-only archive of Wired UK from April 1995 through to Feb 1997

Found via Infovore's delicious - this is the new Corpus Clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Beautiful.

"The proposal to create a government-financed agency to take the most toxic assets (such as subprime and Alt-A RMBS) off the balance sheets of the US banking system is not unexpected. The US Treasury is in fact already running a pilot scheme for this twenty-first century version of the RTC; it has been stepping up direct purchases of Fannie and Freddie mortgage bonds in the last couple of days. "

What's almost as interesting as the article are the comments - this being the FT, it's akin to the anti-YouTube in terms of grammar and coherence.