Grab bag: Bailout and iPhone notes

Is the financial crisis our next Katrina?

Inevitable: the longer it goes through the process, the costlier the bill gets. Any bets that Bush ends up threatening to veto what Congress passes?

Heh. Quite funny.

Cool. Hope they don’t run it into the ground.

With the removal of the iPhone API NDA, expect to see more cool tips & tricks on how to leverage the platform. Specific criticism of this idea: part of the power of URL schemes is that you can choose which app to handle a particular protocol, but this recommendation is to choose an app-specific scheme. So, for instance, Exposure and Cocktails will post to Twitter through Twitteriffic but not through Twinkle. That ain’t cool.

Really interesting visualization–each cycle of the spiral represents a variable timeslice, and you can see at a glance whether a cycle represents an increase or decrease in value for the measured data. The Dow and temperature data slices are really interesting, and the prime and divisor cycles are absolutely fascinating if you use the index values on the slider.

Notes makes it to the iPhone.

Cogent advice on creating a working customer advisory group.

Google in 2001. This was before my blog started.

How a group of restaurants buys meat in bulk–real bulk–and uses everything from head to foot.

It shouldn’t surprise me that Palin isn’t up on her science. That seems to be par for the course.