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Arcade Fire, Partners in Health, the NFL, Merge Records and Bank Robber Music have collectively agreed upon a unique 100% for charity Superbowl licensing of “Wake Up” from Arcade Fire’s 2004 album Funeral. All proceeds from the use of the song on the live Superbowl broadcast and subsequent airings on the NFL Network will go directly to Partners In Health’s Stand With Haiti relief efforts.

A jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone,
iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking devices.

Every day, there’s about 300 apps published in the Apple App Store. Some of these apps are made by developers like ourselves, trying to open up the many possibilities of the iPhone OS platform to ohers and ourselves. By sharing our app’s capabilities and using the capabilities of the apps made by other developers we can increase the usability of the platform. And we might learn something in the process. handleOpenURL.com offers a centralized platform for developers to read and write about others’ and their own apps.

Let's you connect your laptop to the iPhone to surf the web

Here are the 133 standard Crayola crayon colors with their equivalent hex codes.

Photos of the earthquake destruction in Haiti by Nicholas Whalen.

The Chicago Transit Authority is so “committed to safety,” that it is urging commuters to report people committing “excessive photography/filming.”

Key reference points for industry execs
With the help of some industry friends, we've compiled a list of the 50 games every developer should play, in no particular order.

In order to help the people of Haiti respond to this catastrophe, Google is donating $1 million to organizations on the ground that are rescuing those still trapped and providing clean water, food, medical care, shelter and support to those affected.

With numerous online services that can help market, distribute and even manage band affairs, high school bands now have the potential to operate like "major organizations," says Joe Carsello, the assistant talent buyer at Metro, who tracks local bands to play the club.

Turns out that Google Translate has a nice AJAX API, feed it a URL request and get a JSON response. Admittedly the translations are not always perfect, even quite humorous at times, but good enough if you provide the user a warning.

PAT ROBERTSON: And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heal of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.

Disgusting and vile.

He's truly a vile and disgusting person.

Actually runs flash on an iPhone!