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>My favorite app is the App Store. A particularly foolish study a few months ago discoveredhorrors!that most people stop using new apps after only a few days. Wow! These users spent 30 minutes wandering the aisles of the app store, then several hours playing with their new toy, and, after three days, abandoned it. And here they were out a full 99 cents!

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>This is a brilliant ad campaign from Verizon. The "there's a map for that" slogan is cute, but the "Before you pick a phone, pick a network" slogan sounds like common sense and works directly to Verizon's advantage. They're selling their strength (the network) instead of spinning their weakness (their lineup of phones). The ad works because it's true.

(Ok, so I can't get away from the Six Apart / A List Apart puns (cf A Move Apart). Sorry.)

Typepad announced support for Pubsubhubub. I predict on Twitter that we will bridge it with rssCloud so support of one will get you compatibility with th'other.

Dave adds Atom 1.0 support to his software. No big deal unless you were around in the tech industry about 7-8 years ago, and were anywhere near the RSS/ATOM flame wars. As one sage said "then again, let's not go there. 'Tis a silly place." Thanks Dave!

If whoever wrote up the description of then new (and AWESOME) LEGO Town Fire Brigade set isn't totally baiting the AFOL crowd, I'm a monkey's uncle:

Gordon Ramsay may be a jerk on his TV show "Hell's Kitchen", but he can cook a killer scrambled egg breakfast. I made these yesterday, had them on sourdough toast, and while they were too rich in the morning for my kids and wife, I'd happily stuff my arteries with these awesome eggs any day.

The Daily Exhaust:

This is the story of a boy becoming a man, then a boy again.

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This is from ages ago, but it's always fun: Steampunk Star Wars!

Chris Alden quotes Web Worker Daily:

Quick note: I've started riding again (if 4 or 5 rides can be called a habit). Follow my progress (if that's your thing) on my ride journal. The data is captured via GPS with iTrail on my iPhone, then exported into TrailRunner, from which I can publish the journal as a weblog (there's a feed!).

As a developer for SixApart Services, one thing I do a lot of is put debug code in plugins I'm working on to output values to Movable Type's backend activity log. This can get messy, and I usually end up writing a one-off debuglog function for each plugin to make this more convenient.

Kids are in the other room, watching Bolt. Jodi's headed out to run errands, and if you've been following my tweets (seemingly the only place I post these days) you'll know that I'm laid up with a bad back. Which, frankly, sucks.

Interesting thought: while many net-nerds talk about the new abundance of resources in the internet age, they're quite happy to use artificial scarcity to promote their new social network, in the form of invite-only services. Discuss.