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My Google Reader is Borken!

Someone please tell me that I accidentally changed a setting in Google Reader that made it start loading web pages into inline frames when I click on post titles… and I can change back to my old setting …NOW… Whose crazy idea was that anyway?

RSS feed to Newspaper?

In the most irritating way possible, FeedJournal offers to bring the technological advancement of feeding/reading news full circle by enabling you to generate a newspaper from your feed content. Kill trees AND read slower with no mechanism for sharing - sounds great! Why not hack a linotype machine to set the text and print the pages too?

Sadly, I know a few organizations that would LOVE this service.

Andrew Keen: The Internet is Destroying Culture

Seriously, it sounds like a joke, but it is true. This post by Roo Reynolds reminded me that I had seen Keen on the Colbert Show promoting his book and was left with such an absolutely foul taste of ignorance and elitism that I dare say I’ve ever experienced before. My thanks to Roo for ranting.

Human Powered

I’m no engineer, or an expert on generators or power grids, but it seems to me that with all of the health and fitness clubs in the United States - and with all of the users of cardio equipment, sweating and panting for 30 or more minutes at a time - that we are ignoring a vast resource of wasted energy. Power the gym itself, or sell the energy back to the main grid and charge smaller membership fees. Even better, pay the people who generate the most energy a percentage of the surplus. Personally, I would bike a lot harder if I thought there were money in it.

XP Help & Support Sucks

I hate the Windows XP Help & Support Center. I only ever think to pop it open when I’m at my wit’s end trying to fix something… but it is NEVER helpful. In fact, over the course of the eleven years I have used Windows the built in Help has not one time produced a helpful answer. Why bother?

The Problem With OpenID

I’ve come to use my OpenID a lot recently, but today the MyOpenID server seems to not be playing well with others. How do I log in to sites I want to use without it? I’ve wondered about this in the past, but it is the first time I’ve actually had it happen.

Unbelieveably Priced

While scanning through books in my zotero collection sorting my latest “To Buy” list I came across Foundations of Augmented Cognition, which of course I added to the list… until I looked it up on Amazon and saw it was $325! In the name of all that is good in this world, does it really need to be that expensive? Definitely a used book purchase.

Real Estate Rage

I’m so sick of this crap market for residential real estate right now. What an irritating time to try and SELL A HOUSE!

No Stalking

Very relieved that I’m not being stalked in light of some random events today (also testing a new plugin and need a fresh post)

Partial Feeds Bad

To all of the sites out there that only publish partial posts in their feeds - You’re wasting my time. Seriously, I hate you guys.