A man and wife write a Whack-a-Mole game for the App Store. The game gets cracked and posted online for free. The couple seeks out the pirate and asks why.

So first, Gizmodo’s source, who has “repeatedly been 100% correct before”, says that Jobs’ health is “rapidly declining” to explain why Jobs would not be delivering the Macworld keynote. Then, today we hear about Jobs’ health straight from the horse’s mouth, saying that he’s fine, there’s no problem.

Gizmodo’s response? “But we were right on something…The reason why Steve Jobs is not doing the Macworld 2009 keynote is his health.” Despite nothing in Jobs’ letter saying why he wasn’t doing it, Gizmodo decides to just make up what they read, and insert the FUD that this decision was based on Jobs’ health.

Who said the inevitable Great Depression 2.0 is all bad?

I made the switch to this about a month ago, when BBEdit switched their font to Consolas Regular. It’s a very nice typeface at small sizes; I’ve been running it at 11pt, which is both compact and surprisingly readable.

With the surprise ending nobody saw coming.

Quite possibly the most epic news story you’ll read all day.

I don’t know how true or untrue this rumor is; personally, I’m leaning against it. However, it’s prudent to mention some recent events around SproutCore, the JavaScript framework Apple uses to write the MobileMe web apps and the MobileMe Web Gallery.

Apple has recently made a large commit to the SproutCore project on GitHub, which was stuck getting clearance from Apple’s higher-ups for awhile. Here’s a post from Charles Jolley briefly talking about their 1.0 march, dated 12/5/2008.

I haven’t personally taken a look at what the changes in Bitburger (the name of Apple’s branch) entail, so I’m not sure they’re more geared towards developing an application like anything in iWork. Just food for thought.

Google’s iPhone app has some hidden features. The coolest of all is the live waveform while speaking into the microphone, although the most useful is the ability to open links from within the app itself.

The UI they use to enable the more advanced features is pretty intuitive, too. Just keep scrolling up, and the “Bells and Whistles” row will eventually appear.

Or at least Sun would have us believe.

I’ve just finished moving from WordPress to Chyrp, which aims to be something like a self-hosted version of Tumblr, which should give me flexibility to extend the blog to do things like integrate web services. Since I don’t write full-on blog posts as frequently, I’d like to get in the habit of writing smaller posts, as well as sharing links and videos.

There are different categories for different types of posts (links, videos, texts, etc.). Each has individualized RSS feeds; just add “/feed” at the end of the URL and magic should happen.