It drives me crazy when the argument against Twitter is "I don't care what you had for breakfast." It's like saying that you don't use email because you don't want to get forwarded racist chain letters from your grandfather. Even if it's there, you don't need to pay heed to it.

You know how your mom (grandma, coworker, whoever) uses IE6 and has a ton of toolbars up cluttering the entire screen? You know how, despite your constant effort to get him/her to switch to some better browser, they shrug their shoulders, oblivious to the speed penalty and security risks?

A while back, I lost my dental insurance and figured hey, my mouth is fine. I brush twice a day, I floss every night, and I take care of myself. I can skip the dentist!

Ha! I'm the same way: instead of simply turning off videos that mildly annoy me, I ask for a higher power to visit violence upon the host of that same video. And I thought I was the only one!

"Imagine having to sign up for an outlook.com account when you need a Microaoft acount."

I don't think that this is as big of a deal as people make it out to be, but sometimes you need to plan ahead. People typically only calculate commute time by car. If you work a 9-5 in a reasonably major city, there's a good chance that you can either (a) move close enough to commute by foot/bike or (b) have at least…

Most upsetting fact: 2.3% of respondents disregard what education science has known for decades.

App options. Yeah, there's enough to get by, but iOS always gets the best (non-Google) apps first/exclusively. This goes triple for gaming options because of the increased sensitivity to piracy and fragmentation issues. Podcast apps are probably the best example of this; PocketCasts and DoggCatcher are okay, but the…

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That's what phishy looks like?

This is an example of why we need a 24-hour chill-the-hell-out period whenever Google does anything.

Ars Technica. The Wired writer stopped reading when he saw "Images displayed by default".

Except that the images would have to be available on the web anyway to download to the inline messages, where Google probably has them indexed anyhow. Attachments would still be on their servers (as they have been since the beginning of time). The only email communications that include inline images are corporate…

Yeah, privacy concerns are stupid. We're talking about images that are stored on remote servers for HTML messages getting pre-cached, normally stuff from newsletters or company logos or whatnot. Actual attachments to the messasges (i.e., the way that a human would email an image to another human) is on their servers…

Seriously? Fuck you.

Maybe a plurality of billionaires didn't finish college. Mind you, almost all of them _started_ college, though, and if you're going to lower the bar for success from "can afford a yacht to land his/her G5 on" to, like, "is in the top 20% of wage earners" or something a little more reasonable, then I'd say most…

Who ever said he thought he deserved a better view? (Mind you, he was asking how much he'd have to pay to get the better view, but don't let that stop you from being superior)

So, you have your haughty self-righteousness and he has a better hotel room. Everyone wins!

People complain about Facebook whenever they change their user experience, but frankly, they're not dumb there, and if they had left it as-is, people would have moved on a long time ago.

What's better? On features, Google Plus, by a mile. On actual use? Facebook is used by everyone and their dog, and it's good enough, so I don't think that anything is giong to knock it off its perch.