Remains of the Day: We the people

08.03.2011
The iPad joins the political process, Microsoft kicks its own legacy product to the curb, and the iPhone 5 of tomorrow may resemble the iPhone of yesteryear. In order to form a more perfect union, we do establish and ordain these remainders for Monday, March 7, 2011.

(Bloomberg)

Reinventing your country's government? There's an app for--aw, never mind. Hungary is in the midst of writing a new constitution, and it's being done on an iPad, because nothing says "official" like the most important document in your nation being written in Marker Felt.

(Microsoft)

In my previous life as a Web developer, I held a special place in my heart for Internet Explorer. (That place? A torture chamber.) Now, no less than Microsoft itself is trying to do in IE6 by kicking off a worldwide effort to get the browser's share below 1 percent, thus shifting users to newer versions of the software. Finally, a Microsoft effort I can really get behind: destroying Microsoft products.

(Electronista)