Keyboard Philosopher

I’ve been running the 3.0 beta of the iPhone software for a couple weeks now so I figured it was time to give Apple credit and knock what they fixed off my iPhone wishlist. All-in-all it was a pretty solid update:

No MMS
Can’t forward SMS messages
No copy / paste
No autosensing of best available network — [...]

I love my iPhone 3G. I think it’s a great little device and I think I blows away almost every other mobile device out there. But I do have a few complaints, and since this is holiday season I’m putting out my iPhone feature wishlist.
Dear Apple, please fix the following concerns with the [...]

“There are no atheists in foxholes and no ideologues in financial crises.” — Ben S. Benanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (source)
No, Mr. Bernanke, you are wrong on both counts: there are plenty of atheists in foxholes and many of us “ideologues” actually believe in our ideals. That’s what makes them ideals.
“They who can give [...]

So…the stock markets are soaring today on news that the government has banned naked short selling. Add this to the jumble of other awkward, piecemeal “solutions” they’ve vomited out and what it leads to is disaster.
Banning naked short selling is not a solution, it’s a bandage. No, it’s worse than that; it’s a faustian bargain. [...]