These are my links for December 18th through December 21st:

• Get ‘Mini Squadron’… for Free | Touch Arcade –
• Epic 70-Minute Phantom Menace Review Justifies the Existence of The Phantom Menace – The phantom menace – Gizmodo –
• A Whole Lotta Nothing: In Defense of Twittering During Tragedy –
• The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? – Anil Dash – It's egregious that the newest implementations of the Twitter API are stil encouraging people to share their passwords with third-party sites. Five or ten years ago, this was common practice in APIs because we didn't have better options. Twitter started out using shared passwords, but mercifully has started to bring OAuth support online. But for new services to be encouraging the horrible practice of users entering their passwords into every application willy-nilly is just unacceptable.
• Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source –