iPhone hackers in it for the personal glory 

Comment from the iPhone Dev Wiki quoted at the bottom of this InfoWorld story on iPhone hacking progress: ""I can't emphasize enough how much this s*** stinks. Trust me, your ego is not as important as you think it is. If everyone worked together we would have been done by now, but instead we have a******* all over the world trying to 'beat us to the punch,'" the poster wrote."

It made me giggle to picture the group in a room rather than online, noisy, belligerent, spilling coffee, the smell of too many bodies in an airless room, one lone voice pleading for cooperation, the others pushing him out of their way.

World's most dangerous man and his pals 

Monday's Democracy Now features a conference presentation on how the Pentagon Paper came to be pushlished and the roled played by Daniel Ellsberg, Mike Gravel (yep, same one), and the Unitarian Church. It's a fun listen. They loved their brush with treason and seem to reliving it on the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision against Beacon Press.

Ellsberg on Gravel's willingness to read the papers into the congressional record: "So here was a senator who was not afraid to look foolish, basically, and that’s the fear that keeps people in line all their lives. Don’t get out of line."