johnke.meGoogle Reader is the best social network created so far »
More than anything else I’ve read on the topic, Courtney Stanton does a great job of explaining why it’s so sad that Google are nerfing Google Reader
For me, this is the destruction of the only online space I truly give a shit about. (Sorry Twitter, Facebook, etc.) I’m actually really upset about this, as it’s eliminating a social space I’ve been participating in for several years.
He also does a terrific job of explaining why “plus” isn’t a great replacement for the functionality.
I don’t care if Google wants Plus to get bigger, I care about me and my friends who seek to read and discuss the entire internet every day. Is there really no space for different kinds of people to form different kinds of social spaces in Google products? Are they really that fucking stupid about how communities work?
Or, as I suspect, is it just that Buzz and gReader aren’t nearly as effective as Plus at collecting data about my internet use?
No YOU'RE crying
“It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I couldn’t figure out what was going on because the heart monitor was still going,” said Dennis Yeager. “But we were like, he isn’t breathing. How does he still have a heart beat? The nurse checked and said that’s because they were holding hands and it’s going through them. Her heart was beating through him and picking it up.”
“They were still getting her heartbeat through him,” said Donna Sheets. …
“They just loved being together,” said Dennis Yeager.
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No. Just no.
I had been obliged to watch two hours of literally senseless violence being perpetrated on something I loved dearly. In fact, the sense of violation was so strong that it felt as though I had witnessed a rape.
There are a few, horrible cases where this sentence would be justified. Sorry, Nicholas Lezard, but watching Tintin is not one of them.
TV's best worst very special episodes
TV’s best “very special episode” moments.
I had NO IDEA Mr Belvedere was Roger De Bris from The Producers. My tiny mind is blown.
How does the iPhone 4S camera stack-up against other cameras? »
Great comparison of the cameras in each of the iPhones.
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It »
Generation X is sick of your bullshit.
In fairness, Generation X could use a better spokesperson. Barack Obama is just a little too senior to count among its own, and it has debts older than Mark Zuckerberg. Generation X hasn’t had a real voice since
Kurt Cobain blew his brains out,Tupac was murdered,Jeff Mangum went crazy,David Foster Wallace hung himself,Jeff Buckley drowned,River Phoenix overdosed,Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.
Warner Bros buys the movie rights to a Reddit comment »
As if a movie based on the boardgame “Monopoly” wasn’t enough of a sign of creative bankruptcy in the movie industry, now Warner Brothers has bought the rights to a movie based on a Reddit comment.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a really good comment, but the point still stands.
The Guardian iPad edition design evolution »
The Guardian design team shows the various stages of the evolution of their iPad app. This is one of the most beautifully designed newspaper applications I’ve ever used - a perfect marriage of interface and content. I’ll definitely be subscribing.