“This blog” == “the iPhone blog” (nee “Phone Different”). Thanks for the link!

The Internet is a veritable petri dish for zeitgeist. And, hey, if popular website is going to be “inspired”, better by me than someone else. You can copy a creation; you can’t copy creativity. Eventually you gotta come to the source. (Conciliatory traffic, however, is much appreciated.)

Blogs and the attribution dilemma » mathewingram.com/work |

In the interest of balance, I emailed Ars founder Ken Fisher to ask him for a comment on the allegations, and he said that in the case of IPDemocracy, it was a simple mistake in which “the link got removed accidentally in the editing phase,” that it was fixed as quickly as possible and that there was “no intent to deceive.” As for MG Siegler’s post, he said that Siegler wasn’t the only blog to make the comparison between the iPhone and the game of Risk (this blog also did) and that therefore he didn’t deserve a link. In any case, he said, Ars didn’t see Siegler’s post and wrote its own version at about the same time (the site said it was published later because editors were busy).

Ironically, I have never in my life played the game of Risk. However, I was familiar enough to notice when Apple started playing…

ParisLemon: Another Classic Rip-Off Job By Ars Technica

Um. Wow. Hi everybody. Yep, weve been doing the iPhone Risk thing since February. In case somebody gets REALLY investigative-like, Ill mention that it started at phonedifferent.com — we merged with the iPhone Blog last week so now its over there. We noticed the Ars thing as well but figured theyd either come up with it on their own or would not take too kindly to us accusing them of doing otherwise.

Credit to Rene for coming up with the Meme on his own. I cant say for sure we were the first, but we were the first that I saw.

Whedon’s one of my favorite, and consistently favorite, writers, so I’m trusting him and we’ll see where (and how) this goes:

JOSS WHEDON: BUFFY #12 AND THE WHOLE SERIES - NEWSARAMA

In the issue, Buffy, after suffering from pangs of guilt anyone she loves is hurt and loneliness, Buffy has sex with Satsu, one of the new Slayers who’d admitted previously that she is in love with her in issue #3, it was Satsu’s kiss that awoke Buffy from a “Sleeping Beauty” spell – a kiss of true love.

Amazon.com: Erik C. Pihl “Readerman”’s review of Legends of Wingchun: Embers of the Shaolin

Wingchun, one of the short, in-close fist styles of Chinese Wu Shu, has, like other Chinese martial arts, many legends associated with it. This book expounds and expands on a combination of several of them.The writing style is very cinamatographic in nature, and, at times, a little disjointed. It is, however, an engaging tale told in an action-oriented manner.It’s certainly worth the read for anyone who may have the slightest interest in the martial novels that have a base in China.

Could be another red herring, like the iPhone scare that was disproved a while back, or could be something far more Microsoftian… Only time will tell…

Lies, Lies and Adobe Spies

The first clue something is fishy is that I don’t use a 192.168.xxx.xxx numbering scheme in my network. Secondly, if you look at the address Little Snitch is displaying, the last “numbers” of the IP address (2O7) look funny. Also, IP address don’t end in any .com/net/org suffix.Turns out that 192.168.112.2O7.net is owned by Omniture, a huge behavioral analytics firm. Hmmmmmm, anybody curious why Adobe is doing this? Anybody care to sniff packets? I sense an invasion of privacy here!