Two thirds of 2009’s phishing attacks were from a single group. (German article) Phishing strikes me as something where a little education could go a long way. Still haven’t heard of any case among friends and family of mine, non-computer enthusiasts included.

Now this is some nice iPad artwork. More such skins. (via @chartier)

Saving state is a rather common behavior in iPhone OS, and will become default (rather than implemented per-application) in 4.0, but what if you left the app hours or days ago? You may not even remember, much less care, what you had previously been doing in it. (via @danielpunkass)

Palm webOS, on a PC. Uh, sure. (via @chartier)

Wild Fox, a Firefox fork seeking to add H.264 support, may be more attention seeking than substance, but more important than my skepticism is the recognition that pragmatic people still exist. (Even Microsoft, who used to try to compete against MPEG with their Windows Media / VC-1 silliness — submitted as an SMPTE standard and all — now will ship IE 9 with exclusive H.264 support. Why does Mozilla think they can win this?)

More worth reading than the barebones website is the reddit commentary.

Ask a C# question on Stack Overflow, and get detailed information from someone on Microsoft’s C# compiler team. Awesome. (via reddit)

Speaking of pragmatic people, Bruce Schneier wants you to write your passwords down. More of this, please. (also via reddit)

Codeorgan. I don’t even know where to begin. (via Melissa)

It would appear Steve Jobs only tweets in Spanish.

Steve Jobs says to “Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff”. Far too many companies don’t get this. (via DFLL)

Sony will cease production of 3.5-inch floppy disks in March 2011. At first, I thought the year was a typo. They’re still making those? (via heise)

Behold VHEMT, The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

Among these cool <canvas> demos is Torus, a circular Tetris clone. There goes my productivity. (via reddit)

We probably can’t appreciate these never-to-be-syndicated Dilbert cartoons about the iPhone prototype the same way the intended audience can, most of which doesn’t follow Apple every single day, and has merely heard of the drama. They’re a bit too ‘obvious’ to me. (via John Siracusa)

Jesper wants to build a browser for people on crack: Rouse. As a recent convert to “Breaking Bad”¹, I approve. I still miss OmniWeb’s flexibility, but keep going back to Safari, because I can’t help but love the livingontheedge WebKit nightly builds. OmniWeb, on the other hand, was always forked and thus lagged behind.

Thanks to “A real person, a lot like you”, I finally understand xkcd #438.

I hacked together a Core Location test app for Mac OS X (intro’d with Snow Leopard). Very simple, nice API. The thing is a public framework, works mostly the same as on iPhone OS (except for missing features due to hardware limitations: Wi-Fi-only due to lack of A-GPS; no heading due to lack of digital compass), and could be useful.

I mention this because I expected to find some good reason this isn’t commonly offered as an option in Twitter clients. Recent WebKit builds appear to partially implement it, but always claim that the user denied access.