johnke.meAn ex-PM of Google Reader explains why the recent redesign/refactor is such a bad decision.
I’m glad to see someone with a bit of authority complaining about this a reasonable way. For the most part, the only comments I’ve read about the changes have either been from people saying “Eww, who uses Google Reader like that?” or from crazy people calling for an “Occupy Google Reader” protest. I was starting to feel like I was the odd one out.
Seriously, this is an actual fucking headline in The Guardian.
Someone should be ashamed about all this, but I’m not sure who.
Jerry Frankenhauser charts the correlation between explosions and profits in Michael Bay movies in his Formula for Complete and Utter BAYhem
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
- Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
- The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
- Once you’re done you can throw it away.
- Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
- People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
- Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
- Destruction is a variant of done.
- If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
- Done is the engine of more.
I was trying to prove something to myself, too. It was like, "Am I genuinely eccentric? Or am I just wearing a funny hat?
This is a story I’ve been waiting to read for a long time. Note: this is the setup in a two-part story. The actual “why” comes tomorrow.
Now this is a heck of a marathon.
This weekend was the annual Horrorthon here in Dublin which seems to have lost some of its momentum in the past few yeard. A lot of its programme had me scratching my head and thinking “Is that really a horror film?” (e.g. Play Misty for Me or Akira). As a result, I’ve found myself weighing up the films I’d actually be interested in seeing and the films I couldn’t be bothered with and decided that – guest appearance by Michael Biehn not withstanding – it just wasn’t worth my time.
Edgar Wright’s list might be a bit obvious in places, but I’d be first in line at that marathon.
The Madness of Mission 6: Making up Histories for Pixels
This image is from a threadless t-shirt, retconning a story onto Pac-Man. I love it. It reminds me of the amazing covers for 8-bit games that bore almost no relation to the actual game1, but were just there to set the mood and provide the tiniest bit of context for the gameplay.
The Atari 2600 game Adventure is the perfect example of this. The cover is beautifully illustrated, charming and evocative. It’s like an illustration you’d find in a weird old German edition of The Hobbit. In the actual game, you play a fucking square. ↩︎
I would love to know who thought it would be a good idea to give Diablo Cody an interview show. I’m sure she has many talents, but being a good interviewer is not one of them.
Having said that, you should skip to 13:45 for one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
