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Mike Cohen I just submitted the update to PicSlide 1.6. This version adds one new feature: Magic Pandas.
Flickr has Magic Pandas that vomit rainbows and photos. If you ask them nicely, they’ll give you some of the most interesting pictures they can find, which PicSlide will let you play with and even save to your photo album.
I Hardly Know Her is a minimalist Flickr viewer. Simply give it permission to access your Flickr stream and you can use it to view your Flickr photos without distraction, You can see my Flickr photostream at http://ihardlyknowher.com/mike_c/big.
Via ipodnn:
Apple has flipped its stance and decided to approve an iPhone app for a Republican Congressional candidate, says the New York Times. The app, created for Ari David, was initially rejected for being defamatory of the incumbent, Democrat Henry Waxman. The app makes many attacks against Waxman, for instance suggesting that he “tried to strangle family farms with insane Soviet-style regulation.”
Whether you support the candidate or not (and I don’t), having an app that’s in effect an attack ad on their opponent is wrong. If the app simply promoted the candidate without attacking & smearing his opponent, it would be fine.
I really hate attack ads. When I see them it only makes me dislike the candidate that made the ad and I’m actually less likely to vote for him. These attack ads are what caused today’s toxic political climate. I don’t want to see the app store filled with more of these personal attack apps.
I’m a big Arcade Fire fan, so I’m thrilled about their upcoming album, The Suburbs, which will be released Aug. 3 in the US & Canada. The album is available for pre-order, and a digital download of the first two singles is available immediately with all orders. The frenzy & rumors surrounding their album release is almost as intense as the excitement about an Apple announcement.
Here’s a look at their first single, thanks to Joel’s Arcade Fire Blog.
I got the final artwork for Removr and I have the basic gameplay working. I still need to design all of the levels (I only have 4 simple ones so far). I’ll have something to show by WWDC.
Cheezburger Networks finally has an App Store account, and we’re in the process of setting up provisioning so I can resubmit the app. When it returns, it will be listed under Cheezburger Networks and will no longer be sold by me.
UPDATE: It will be listed under Pet Holdings. It’s built with the new app ID & provisioning, and will hopefully be submitted this week (I don’t have the ability to submit apps with their account).
UPDATE #2: It’s still “in progress” with no ETA. They also said:
plz start sending comments to our customer service page if you would
Florida Department of Transportation officials are trying to determine how someone altered a couple of digital construction signs along the Palmetto Expressway to flash "No Latinos" and "No Tacos" on Tuesday morning, WPLG-Ch. 10 reports.
I just submitted iDjembe 2.1, the first universal version. Even though the old version didn’t look too bad on an iPad, the iPad optimized graphics look nicer. It also sounds a lot better on an iPad.
I have two app updates coming up in the next few days:
The artwork for Removr is complete, but we haven’t finished designing all of the levels.
I no longer own I Can Has Cheezburger. When it returns, it will be sold by Cheezburger Networks instead of by me. They’re still in the process of getting their company developer account approved.
This post by B12 Solipsism points out some of the inconsistencies of Libertarian philosophy:
Frank Rich discusses Rand Paul, and Paul’s hard-core Libertarianism:
Paul is articulate and hard-line. When he says he is antigovernment, he means it. Unlike McConnell, he wants to end all earmarks, including agricultural subsidies for a state that thrives on them. (He does vow to preserve Medicare payments, however; they contribute to his income as an ophthalmologist.) He wants to shut down the Department of Education and the Federal Reserve. Though a social conservative who would outlaw all abortions, he believes the federal government should leave drug enforcement to the states.
In other words:
In 1988 I considered myself a Libertarian because I was disillusioned with the two major parties and didn’t want to be identified with either of them. I never liked Republicans and I wasn’t too thrilled with the Democratic candidates. The Libertarian’s talk about “freedom” sounded attractive until I realized exactly what they really meant. Their talk about individual freedom is pure bullshit. They’re really talking about freedom from regulation for corporations, yet they support restricting the rights of individuals to do what they wish with their own lives (abortion, etc) and are generally opposed to civil rights.