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Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 1.1.4.

During installation you are presented with the following “Important Information” for this release:

iPhone Software
Version 1.1.4

This version of the software includes bug fixes and supersedes all previous versions.

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the users guide for your iPhone at:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/iphone/

For more information about iPhone, go to:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/

To troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone

For detailed information on Security Updates, please visit this website:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

Regular old security and bug fix update, or preparation for next week’s iPhone SDK and enterprise features announcements? You be the judge.

BTW, has anyone noticed the flaw in “The Great Thing” iPhone ad Apple has been running lately?

Hint: Think about cell coverage in the back bowls of most ski areas…

Investor’s Business Daily’s recent “Columbine To Va. Tech To NIU: Gun-Free Zones Or Killing Fields?” article by John R. Lott, Jr is spot-on:
Gun-free zones are magnets for bad guys.

I applaud the Oklahoma House of Representatives for considering a bill that would allow properly vetted concealed weapon license holders to carry on college and university campuses.

As Article 2, Section 26 of the Oklahoma State Constitution declares:

The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereunto legally summoned, shall never be prohibited

It is your right to defend yourself and your family. I’d go one step further and say it’s your responsibility, too. If your Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training certified gun safety instructor, your county sheriff, and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation have tested your knowledge of the Oklahoma Self Defense Act, verified your safe handling and use of a handgun, run extensive local, state, and federal criminal and mental health background checks, and processed your properly submitted concealed weapons license application to prove you are otherwise eligible (all of these steps are required for one to be issued an Oklahoma license), why should you be denied your basic right to self defense just because you walk onto a college campus?

Thank you, Rep. Murphey and the House Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, for submitting and approving in committee Oklahoma House Bill 2513 which would allow license holders to defend themselves on campus. Now please stay the course and get this through the system and into law. This won’t stop crazies on campus completely, but it could certainly help to curtail the severity of their attacks.

• LinkedIn Mobile launches with WAP and iPhone support; looks nice, though functionality is limited versus full browser version. #

• Decent introduction to the Comet architecture, very useful for event-driven Web apps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) #
• Comet Daily post by Andrew Betts on overcomplexity http://tinyurl.com/2vjbog #

Digital Reasoning Systems CEO Tim Estes recently launched our new blog with his post on “Web 3.0 and its discontents“.

As Tim notes in the opening to his inaugural post:

For my first post to our new blog, I thought I would jump into an area that is of great and timely interest: The emerging “Semantic Web” and the technologies and solutions proposed to enable it.

There has been a lot of “Web 3.0″ buzz in the last year. See for example this MIT “Technology Review” article, Business 2.0’s piece on Radar Networks, the New York Times’ Metaweb article, and John Markoff’s original Web 3.0 article from the NY Times in late 2006. The reaction in the blogsphere has been equally interesting. There appears to be a combination of believers and advocates, both Web 2.0 players who are mad at the hype being stolen and those who are skeptics. If I were to put myself in a camp, I’d have to say I’m an “optimistic skeptic”.

I believe something like this vision of Web 3.0 will play out, but it might take the market six or seven “attempters” before we find a Google of Web 3.0.

Whoever eventually gets it right must overcome at least three critical issues to make the Web 3.0 vision reality. I’ll lay them out here.

I would highly recommend that anyone interested in the semantic web and where things are headed read this post. It clarifies a number of issues that are commonly confused or skipped over. Highly recommended.

And while you’re there, btw, why not subscribe to our feed to automagically get future updates?

• Scoble posted a video of his ride in the first production Tesla electric sportscar…and Elon Musk was driving! http://qik.com/video/22264 #

Fascinating: The US plans to shoot down the dead US 193 spy satellite to keep the parts that might survive unplanned reentry off EBay.

Apparently the Chinese government is big on trolling auctions for secrets. Keep those secrets off a public auction site, kiddies!

And don’t worry, if you there’s damage on the ground from pieces that make it down anyway, the US government will help pick up the tab. Just don’t breath the hydrazine…

I blogged about the new “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” movie trailer and “LEGO Indiana Jones” videogame preview on Geekdad today.

Read the Geekdad post for the whole skinny, or watch the movie trailer below for a sneak peek:

96 days to go, and counting!

• Kevin Kelly’s excellent "Better Than Free" is highly recommended http://tinyurl.com/2pacvr #

Another day, another Geekdad post:

Check out my “Star Wars Crafts for Kids” published today on Wired’s Geekdad blog. Video from Craft Magazine’s original post:

I’ve blogged about two of my favorite geeky TV shows, “Jericho” and “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles“, over on Geekdad.

Check out the full post here. Trailers for both follow.

• Tim O’Reilly makes very good observations on Google Social Graph API http://tinyurl.com/26r77q #

• Today’s the 5th anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven: http://tinyurl.com/2u43kg #
• Google’s new Social Graph API http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ #
• TechCrunch on Goog Social Graph API http://tinyurl.com/2pwe5t #