Calacanis says Facebook is done

Sure, that guy will do anything for a headline, but when Jason Calacanis thinks you’re immoral, it might be time to re-evaluate.

I ran out of time to contribute to 48-hour magazine’s inaugural issue but it sure does look great.

I wanna make something to sell just so I can hire Adam to make the commercials.

Square, btw, is great, you should sign up.

Hummingbird looks like a very promising real-time analytics app

Very alpha right now, built on Node.js, uses WebSockets to update the view of your site up to 20 times per second.

A bit ago, I quipped about how I don’t really like the new wallpaper feature in iPhone OS 4. For some reason, it doesn’t bug me much on my iPad but on the phone it’s awful, especially the vibrant images that ship by default.

So I made a better one. Originally, I just wanted my black background back but decided to add just a touch of panaché – a little Fireball Gray rising from the bottom. It’s nothing fancy and was all of a few minutes of dinking around in Acorn to get the gradient just right. No logos or icons getting in the way.

Right-click and save fanboy.jpg to wherever it is your phone looks for photos on your computer or, if you’re reading this on your phone, just go there and save with a tap-hold. Do with it what you will, no rights reserved on my part. Now breathe a sweet sigh of relief.

Playboy is planning a SFW site

For the articles

Pro Publica has a great FAQ about everything you’d want to know about the gulf oil spill

What happened, when, what’s being done. Great reporting [via Robin Sloan]

Is Apple losing its cool?

—I tell ya, when I wanna know what’s cool, I ask someone like ABC News correspondent John Berman.

What we’re talking about here is Darwinian evolution in fast-forward

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Mike Owen, a weed scientist at Iowa State University, on the rise of herbicide, particularly Roundp, resistant weeds. Monsanto, who makes billions of dollars selling Roundp and genetically modified corn and soybeans that are resistant to the weed killer, has told us for years that this wouldn’t be a problem, while they were also suing farmers who saved seeds instead of paying for new seeds year after year. It was a brilliant sell-the-blade business model that worked really well for about twenty years but now appears poised to have some very serious consequences.

Honestly, the only thing I’m surprised about is that Roundup resistant weeds have showed up this quickly, I thought it’d be at least another decade.

Adobe’s problem in this mess is that they’ve painted themselves into a corner with the public. They used to be loved by everyone who used their products. Ask a designer ten years ago whether they’d rather switch away from Apple or switch away from Adobe and I’m sure most would have stuck with Adobe. Today, not only has the situation reversed itself, but I find myself actively trying to move away from Adobe on my own.

—BAM. Mike D has a lot of good things to say about this whole Adobe/Apple mess but this really gets to the heart of where a lot of creatives find themselves.