Extra Future

Day: April 18, 2009

  • WHEAT, INVINCIBLE

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    Phil Nelson
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    Your headline of the evening: “[Washington scientists make wheat impervious to death][link].” [link]: http://www.kansas.com/222/story/776586.html “Washington scientists make wheat impervious to death | News2Use | Wichita Eagle”

  • O’Reilly’s Round-up of iPhone Application Statistics

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Lots of interesting data][link]. As [a commenter notes][comment], the “ratings” metric should be taken with a grain of salt. Instead of defaulting to “no” stars (and possibly prompting the user to choose a rating if they’ve not done so) the App Store defaults to 1 star. Since it doesn’t require you to select a star,…