Make your phone a Charlie Card.
This is the most important thing I've read about Android in a very long time. "Android is open — except for all the good parts."
Google publishes a description of how to avoid getting tracked and then does all kind of things to get around the actions of the folks who take their advice.
Bad review of the N900 to, er, balance things out.
"Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well."
Interesting argument, but seems pretty obviously wrong.
DUDE, I WROTE THE FIRST VERSION OF THIS PROGRAM IN A BAR!
Assembling a phone in the US is not much more expensive because labor costs are a small part of phones.
Carolina Flores Hine made this wonderful translation of my essay, "The Computer in my Pocket," into Spanish.
Super useful on the phone.
Good Christmas/Hanukkah gift this year!
Matt Porter's presentation about the ways that Android is *really* not GNU/Linux
Is Sony is the first company to put something like this up for its phones? Really?
