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Adobe's CTO on why the iPad needs Flash and is technically capable of running Flash like Android and other devices.

Alas it arrives. Nicely polished apps and a great $500 price point. With iWork Touch, it seems like a suitable replacement for most people's home desktop or laptop. But it needs to support Flash.

Restaurant food sharing site and app by a team from Adaptive Path. I've enjoyed foodspotting (posting snapshots of what I eat) on Yelp recently.

Supreme Court says no more limits on corporate lobbying donations. They're right that the donations are protected by free speech. And corporate money was already going to politicians indirectly. Citizens have a right to balance the power of corporate interests in topics like healthcare reform, but they'll need to find a different legal way to do it.

""Chronic care is the big issue in health care right now," Walgreens innovation officer Colin Watts told Fast Company"

Patients will be able to get diabetes checkups and affordable walk-in health care from nurse practitioners at Walgreens.

Google threatens to shut down its Chinese operations and stop censorship on google.cn after discovering attempts to hijack the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

"Supporters of the opposition to Iran's current ruling regime continue to gather, speak out, and protest - despite the risks of imprisonment, injury or death, and the continued official restrictions on foreign media coverage. On December 21st, 2009, thousands of Iranians attended a funeral ceremony for Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the spiritual father of Iran's reform movement, who had passed away at the age of 87. In the days following the funeral, mourners and protesters took to the streets defying an official ban on such memorial services. On the Muslim holy day of Ashoura, December 27th, protesters and riot police clashed in multiple locations in Tehran, leaving many injured and between 8 and 37 protesters killed, including the nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Days later, on December 30th, the Iranian government organized its own protest - against the opposition - giving all civil servants the day off to attend, providing dozens of buses and free chocolate milk for demonstrators. Collected here are photos from the three days, most taken by anonymous photographers, acquired outside the country by press agencies who are restricted by the government ban."

The Nexus One is nice, but it isn't revolutionary like previous Google product launches.

California is "ungovernable" (it rarely passes a budget on time) because it takes 2/3 majority to pass a budget or raise taxes, which lets a 1/3 minority block budgets. A normal majority would go a long way to make California's government more effective.