Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Features, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store We're at a new juncture in the course of iPhone development, I believe. Twitter has basically monopolized the "text exporting" function of your iPhone -- if you want to broadcast text from a mobile device, most of...

As Florida awaits an appeals court ruling that may legalize gay adoption, state Sen. Nan Rich (D-Weston) is doing an end run around the court. Rich, who is co-chair of the Senate Children & Families Committee, has filed a bill to repeal the 1977 Florida law that prohibits gay men and lesbians fr...

The appearance of the new Tax Incidence Study has people on both sides of the tax fairness issue looking like coke addicts trying to line up the facts on a mirror. The arguments put forward for and against certain findings reflect our views of rich and poor rather than a pure view of the evidence. W...

Looks like Dell is serving up a little Apple compete with their new teaser for the "Adamo" which in latin means to fall in love with/lust after and in Dell's case looks to be a near-unibody laptop.  Everyone knows geeks like to see brand new tech taken apart and here Dell does it in reverse in all ...

All software has bugs. I don't care if you're Apple, Microsoft, IBM, or a smaller, leaner ISV. Your software has bugs in it. Once you accept this fact, that into each software product a little crap must fall, it becomes clear that what differentiates one software development organization from anothe...

That crazy psycho art bitch Vanessa Beecroft is back... ...and in film this time. Damien Hirst And Matthew Barney Rip The Cynical Naked Breasts Off The Rich White Art Star Bitch a Postmodern Art Performance Piece Submitted to the Whitney Museum of America Art and the N.E.A. To Whom It May Concern: I...

The economic meltdown is supposed to "reenergize [the] creative economy" of New York by breaking the city's expensive obsession with finance. Instead, it's wrecking artists' best shot at wealth: Through Larry Gagosian. The top-tier art dealer, who bridges the worlds of art and finance, seems panicke...

Duncan: I know I’ll make this point a billion times before this is all over, but there’s a difference between thinking that well run financial intermediaries (which, in theory, competition will create) are necessary for a modern economy and believing that the semi-oligopolistic system of...

And Digby, too. And this is pretty damned interesting, too. Josh Marshall: It turns out that one of the features of the 2005 Bankruptcy bill was to put derivative counter parties [like CDS holders] at the front of the line ahead of other creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. Actually, from what I can...

Aww, Michelle Obama went to help out at a soup kitchen for homeless people on Thursday! And while she was there, the AP took a photo of this guy taking a cellphone photo of Michelle’s very famous arms. So now America’s conservative pundits are very upset that this supposedly homeless man...