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Happy Thursday!

It's so close to the weekend we can feel it in the air--can't you? Unfortunately AT&T is trying to harsh our mellow...again. Apple's standing up for what's right, though, and has done a major house cleaning in the app store, booting over a thousand apps for scamming customers. Of course, there's always something fun, too...after all, it is Thursday!

Booooooo
We've tried. Really. We've tried. We've looked the other way, turned the other cheek, and basically tried to ignore the mobile carrier's egregious acts because if we want to keep using our iPhones there's no other way. We even try to praise them, like for their Mark The Spot app this week.

But this might be the straw that breaks a lot of users backs.

Yesterday, AT&T said they want to "educate" us as to what a megabyte of data is. Fair enough. But they assume that once we're "educated" we'll cut back on using the aformentioned data to help them out. We know we're echoing the cries of users across the country, but didn't we pay for an unlimited data plan? Didn't we alert AT&T, with that purchase, that we intended to use our devices in any manner that we saw fit? We understand the problem, but for a company that's had a terrible year as far as customer satisfaction is concerned to come out and blame people for using their phones as per their agreements is unconscionable.

Apple Cleans Up
On a marginally happier note, app developer Molinker has been tossed out, along with all its applications, because of a nasty scam: apparently they've been giving out promotional codes of their copycat apps in exchange for five star reviews...that of course beget more app sales. Now the people who actually paid for this stuff are stuck holding the bag with apps destined to be broken after the next iPhone OS update.

While the decisive action from Apple pleases us we understand how it could make other developers nervous. Yes, Molinker was being very very bad, but Apple could just as easily--and with just as little fanfare--boot practically any developer. For anything.

And Now...
The fun stuff. Specifically, kevlar air bags on the outside of helicopters! They saved the bird and the dummies inside at a speed of forty eight feet per second from a height of thirty five feet. The picture's here.

We know we're nerds, but air bags on the outside are just cool.

Have a fabulous weekend, folks! Catch us on Twitter.

Till Monday, Newsies...