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Hi everybody!

Here's hoping you had a safe, happy and relatively uneventful turkey day. If you managed to sleep through Apple's Black Friday deals, don't fret--you can still get free shipping on almost everything until December 23rd. (Check the Apple Store for details, as they vary by country and product!)

We've got a lot to catch up on, so here goes:

Help Is On the Way
Whether you're developing--or getting someone else to develop--an iPhone app or just need another good head shake and sigh about how endlessly picky Apple can be with said apps, there's finally a place for you online. http://apprejections.com/, founded by Adam Martin, aims to collect all of the rejection stories in one place. For erudition or simple enjoyment, check it out; maybe these stories will help you avoid the pitfalls and speed up the long approval process. As far as we're concerned, the information provides excellent conversation starters.

It's a good collection of stories, replete with plenty of nerdy humor and warnings to heed. We're sure that as word spreads, maaaaaany more instances will be added!

Nine Lives
If ever a lawsuit had 'em, the epic battle between Apple and Psystar would surely be it.

They just won't stop!

Seriously, Psystar filed another suit against the boys, in Florida this time, citing most of the same facts, accusations and information that the California case has come close to settling. Apple has currently asked for a dismissal, but on the off chance it doesn't get it has requested that the Florida suit be transferred to California...you know, for speedy resolution. Because lawyers love that. In case you've forgotten, this case is about Psystar installing cloned Mac OS X software on its machines. We wish we could forget...

Positive Reinforcment?
Well, at least Ashley Towns is having a laugh. Yes, the infamous Australian whose big bad worm infected a massive amount of iPhones (100. In Australia.) has accepted a job as an iPhone app delevoper. What's really great, though, is the response to the job offer. Security company Sophos apparently thinks that giving a malware writer a job based on his malicious (ok, slightly annoying) rickrolling attack is bad policy. A press statement from the company--who did not experience a rickrolling incident, offer a job or employ Mr. Towns--says that giving him the job takes away from other young coders "who wouldn't have acted so stupidly." Wow.

Should malware coders be ostracized completely? You tell us.

Till tomorrow, Newsies...