A plausibly interesting commentary describing how airline Virgin America is in the process of divesting itself from Flash, goes radically south with this little nugget:

But Flash still dominates the web: 98 per cent of PCs have Flash player installed while the vast majority of web content – from simple illustrations to videos on YouTube whose owner Google is one of the largest proponents of HTML 5 – are built using the technology.

Unbelievably stupid paragraph.  The vast majority of Web content is text, and even if limited to imagery, the vast majority of Web content is in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format. Oh, and those videos on YouTube? Not built using Flash either. That’s just the player.

This same hack (Gavin Clarke) also refers to the iPhone as the “Jesus Phone.”  I get it. Because people who like Apple products are almost sort of religious about it. Really clever. What a dick.

A great use of 30 minutes of your time – this recent discussion on publishing between Tim O’Reilly and Adobe’s Michael Gough.  [ via Robert Ivan ]

As Google Wave users get their sea legs, there’s nothing so useful as examples. From an outfit called Whirled Interactive, here’s a clever, concise and perhaps even jammin’ Goodbye to 2009.

[ Via Mashable, which also brings us a post on Google Wave's massive potential for business users. ]