This is great news. In 5 years I can’t remember a single time I’ve used the YouTube app other when I get redirected to it from a link somewhere else. Apple dropping it from iOS 6 means there’ll be one less system app in my folder of apps that I can’t delete.

Update: Several clever folks have pointed out what I never realized: by disabling the YouTube app in Settings → General → Restrictions, the app icon will be removed and any links to YouTube you come across in Safari or Twitter or email will send you to the YouTube site in Safari.

My thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. They’re giving away a Das Keyboard this month, which is awesome. It’s the keyboard I use every day. In fact, I’m using it right now to type this very sentence.

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Well this is frustrating:

If one edits a document, then chooses Save As, then BOTH the edited original document and the copy are saved, thus not only saving a new copy, but silently saving the original with the same changes, thus overwriting the original.

Assuming this is Mountain Lion’s intentional behavior rather than a bug, then how bonkers is this?

So far as I can tell the only real difference between Save As and Duplicate is that the former gives you a dialog box to choose a new name as well as a new location. Whereas choosing to Duplicate a file means only renaming it, and once you do it’s automatically saved in the same location as the original.

Seth Godin regarding the income conundrum facing Twitter (and other free services where the user is the product and the advertiser is the customer):

Free is a great idea, until free leads to a conflict between those contributing attention and those contributing cash.

Seth proposes a paid subscription that gets you an ad-free experience along with some pro-level features (like, hey why not, 160 characters). I am sure Twitter has put this option on the table, but who knows if they would ever roll it out. I think I would be willing to pay a few bucks per month to keep using my favorite 3rd-party client and to not see ads in my timeline (as I’m sure many of you reading this would be willing to do as well). But I’m afraid the more-likely scenario is that Twitter will do what it wants and we’ll have no option but to deal with it or leave.

Wired Science has a rundown of all the different places (both online and physical) that you can watch the landing of the Curiosity rover and what the timeline for the landing and the broadcasts are.

If you’re planning to stay up and watch it live from the comfort of your living room, the Curiosity Cam live feed from NASA JPL looks to be the best spot.

From the Fortune archives, this piece was originally published in July 1955:

There are in the U.S. approximately 30,000 executives, with incomes of $50,000 or more. These men sit on the top-most rungs of the business ladder either as managers or as owners of their own businesses. Obviously there is no “average” executive among them (they are all singular men). But their lives do have certain common characteristics, and there is visible a kind of composite way of executive life.

The successful American executive, for example, gets up early—about 7:00 A.M.—eats a large breakfast, and rushes to his office by train or auto. It is not unusual for him, after spending from 9:00 A.M. until 6:00 P.M. in his office, to hurry home, eat dinner, and crawl into bed with a briefcase full of homework. He is constantly pressed for time, and a great deal of the time he spends in his office is extraneous to his business. He gets himself involved in all kinds of community work, either because he wants to or because he figures he has to for the sake of public relations.

(Via Jim Ray.)

This is an excellent review of the Nexus 7 by Fraser Speirs. What especially stood out to me in Speirs’ article is how much he compared the Nexus 7 against the iPhone rather than the iPad:

After living with the Nexus 7 for about 10 days now, I’m not even thinking about it in the same bracket as the iPad. I’m thinking about it in the same bracket as my iPhone.

But ultimately, Speirs concludes that he sees no advantage to a device that sits in-between an iPhone and an iPad:

I just find the Nexus 7 a weird mix. […] Not as portable as a smartphone yet nowhere near as powerful as an iPad.

Many reviewers have said that the Nexus 7 made them want Apple to build a 7″ iPad. I disagree. The Nexus 7 has made me want a slightly bigger iPhone. I can get all of the software functionality I get from the Nexus 7 – and more – on my iPhone. If we are going to trade off functionality for portability, let’s go all the way and make the thing really portable.

So, though it’s getting far out on a limb to take a device built by a competitor and use it as a comparison against a hypothetical, rumored, still-as-of-yet-non-existent device, but… If Apple does make an iPad mini, perhaps “a big iPod touch” (what people dubbed the original iPad) will turn out to be a pretty fair description of it.

A helpful list.

It sounds like the funding they took on was a very considered move and that they have what’s best in mind for building a stable and sustainable company.

I’ve been using Backblaze (in combination with Arq) for over a year. I never notice when Backblaze is running, their plans are very reasonably priced, and it’s great to know that all my data is routinely backed to an off site data center.

Check out photo number 3. The parachute they built for the rover landing. It weighs 100 pounds but can handle up to 65,000 pounds of force. They’re testing it inside the world’s largest wind tunnel. The chute doesn’t look all that impressive until you see the how little the guy is standing underneath it.

From the top of the atmosphere to the surface of Mars is 7-minute journey. Yet it takes 14 minutes for the signal from Mars to reach Earth. So by the time NASA gets word that Curiosity has reached Mars atmosphere, the rover will have been waiting (or destroyed) for 7 minutes already. Which means the whole process of landing on Mars is completely automated (as if it weren’t complex enough!).

On episode 72 of The B&B Podcast Ben and I talked about the new Digg, Cultured Code’s impending release of their Cloud Sync service, the balance of shipping half-finished products early versus taking longer to ship products that are finished, why not being on Facebook may mean you’re a suspicious citizen, and how real-life priorities intersect with your to-do list.

Michael Mulvey:

So Samsung and everyone else in the world now has access to old Apple hardware prototypes (rejected ones, I might add) but they’re not getting access to Apple’s creative process for innovation.