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You can launch a web app in its own process on the iPhone (outside of mobile safari).

I do not condone this. But I'll link to it anyway. For the lulz.

"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."

A photography blog about books. [via jessamyn]

The Ignite theme is coming to my town November 13th. I wonder what I'd present about for five minutes.

"Apple's current practice of rejecting certain applications at the final hurdle - submission to the App Store - is disastrous for investor confidence." We're already running into problems with the centrally-controled application distribution system for the iPhone. [via waxy]

Nice Flash control for navigating graphs by date.

Jason's Twitter-killer: plain text file on a server. Someone write an aggregator and we've got the distributed holy Twitter grail.

Eclipse plugin for ColdFusion development.

Fun web app for creating tiled backgrounds. [via MeFi]

The trouble with attention-focused modal overlays such as lightbox, and why asynchronous trays and sliders are better. [via migurski]

This is a lot easier than whatever I've been doing.

"Differences between Republican and Democrats exist...but those differences are often dwarfed by the differences between those entrenched in and dependent upon the Washington Establishment and...American citizens -- who are not." [via rc3]

"The U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the FISA Amendments Act...granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president's illegal domestic wiretapping program." Discouraging.

This is going to change my life.

This Yahoo! Stencil Kit looks like a good way to mock up iPhone apps in Illustrator. [via CreativeTechs Tips]

"Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time." Looks like nifty web app.

tl;dr

A web comic about branding. [via Brand New]

The Web's favorite tinsmith resigns his post with the Yahoo Web Trust for a more pastoral way. [via waxy]

Yahoo's ColdFusion-specific resources.

a ColdFusion wrapper for the Facebook API

a nice walkthrough for installing Ubutnu Linux under Parallels.

JavaScript library for creating graphs. [via Hackszine]

A single script for hosting your own single OpenID identity. Easy to set up with Apache. (IIS with ISAPI_rewrite, hard.) Supports the sreg extension.

Here's the "sreg stuff" for OpenID. Avatars aren't mentioned in the spec.

Avatar auto-discovery standard. Seems like a natural fit with OpenID. This should be added to the optional sreg stuff.