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I’ve always been a fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, and once Avi suggested putting Wikipedia on the iPhone, it seemed like a good chance to realise the books’ namesake—”a comprehensive, collaboratively-written encyclopedia on a small hand-held computer”.

And so, warts and all, here it is.

(See also: Damien Mulley, Avi Bryant.)

Giuliani, in last night’s GOP debate: “That [Bush’s offence on terrorism] led to Iraq, The Patriot Act, electronic surveillance. All that is very, very good”.

Dan Weinreb (of Symbolics fame) has just posted two excellent entries on his blog. Drawing from his experience working on ObjectStore, they cover the technology and business of OODBMSs. Cool stuff.