Blogs

I came across this blog post (via Daring Fireball) about the iPhone App store, and how the ecosystem of developers undercutting each others' prices isn't something that can last. There are some really good points about the problem with the way the iPhone Apps store is organised.

I love these; an exhibition by JCauty & Son (a collaborative work by James Cauty of KLF fame, and his 15 year old son) on "The Plausible Impossibility of Death in the Minds of Cartoon Characters."

Hope I manage to get around to seeing it while it's still on...

Check it out.

(Found via Daring Fireball)

YouTube to offer a $100,000 prize to anyone who makes a video actually worth watching. (From TheOnion.com)

There's a great story about the discovery of the platypus; when the first sketches and pelts were sent back to Europe from Australia, scientists were baffled; all previously discovered animals had been successfully classified into a neat system, and a semi-aquatic creature that laid eggs, suckled it's young, had a venomous spur seemed impossible to their way of thinking; the logical conclusion wasn't that there was a problem with their way of thinking, but that the creature was an elaborate hoax, and that a duck's bill must have been stitched onto the body of a beaver-like animal.