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Nice collection of the way popular iPhone applications have approached splash screens, user profiles, lists, etc.

"That's what the beer commercials are going after--the enthusiastic desperation of the underage drinker."

Interesting changes for ColdFusion within Adobe. CF development has been separated from Platform (ie. Flash) development.

Nice minimalist inline MP3 player. I hope they move from Flash to HTML5 eventually.

Photographer, alphabet trucks and abandoned gasoline stations.

Cortex is go! Josh is using the All You Can Jet promotion from Jetblue to meet MetaFilter members across the country. This is where he'll be posting about his month-long adventure.

This is where you can adjust your Flash security settings, including managing Flash cookies that you can't control via the browser.

"More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them..." [via schneier]

"Parents and other caregivers teach young children by paying attention and interacting with them naturally and, most of all, by just allowing them to play." [via Daddy Types]

"Superfeedr is Real-time Feed Parsing in the Cloud." Great idea that could help build specialized aggregators. Bummed it's ATOM at the end. I'd prefer RSS.

This blog connects Mad Men episodes with advertisements and details from the time. [via kottke]

"We looked at the most compelling social sites across the web, from Twitter to Tumblr, Pownce to FriendFeed, and more. And then we built an application around open standards to offer you the best features of each of these services, on your own site."

self-explanatory, I believe.

Nice Flash control for navigating graphs by date.

Rafe on conflicting images of Iran. We're only getting one view of the country in our major media outlets, but the social Web provides a more nuanced, complete view.

haha, let fate determine where you should eat! Jim put together a fun visualization of Yahoo! Local business entries.

Flash upload progress thingy for web apps. [via mathowie]

this articles dissects the art of comedy and distills it down to a few "joke templates". [via Mind Hacks]

"a musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book 'digital harmony'." By Jim Bumgardner. Play with the hand crank!

Flickr Hacks co-author Jim Bumgardner recently spoke at Yahoo about the visual and audio hacks he plays around with. I hope Yahoo releases audio of his talk.

[via Bruce Schneier]

some of the presentations from the IDEA conference are available now

I already ordered the book. (It arrived today, yay!) But I'd be ordering on Nov. 1st with others if I hadn't. [via Brian Sawyer]