The first paragraph you cited sounds like a shitty satire of Jezebel.

Most people aren't civilized enough to keep their phones on silent.

Welcome to the club!

Thank you for posting this. "1/2" at 26:15 is the best rainy day song ever.

If you're in LA, you should check out the observation deck on the roof of City Hall.

That room will never fill with water. It's for valve control.

Spotify offers a ridiculous number of recommendation services via its apps platform. You have:

That's some truly terrible architecture.

Can we meet in the middle and agree that at the very least, people shouldn't dump their entire camera's worth of photos into an album on Facebook?

Or, you could just install a fire alarm panel that powers all the detectors with 12 or 24 VDC.

You'd be better off buying a fire panel and wiring up a 12/24 volt alarm with a central battery backup and central station link.

Yes, and texting or emailing you that there's a smoke condition at your house is probably not the best use of the very few minutes between detector activation and "where did my house go?"

Because there are very specific guidelines on where smoke detectors must be placed to ensure they can actually do their job.

Probably not, because that's dangerously dumb to ignore.

Downloading WhatsApp has already met my quota of Apps That Replicate Features My Phone Already Has, for 2013.

"equal or better than" the battery life on the iPhone 5.

It probably controls sensors located upstairs. You gotta get in somehow.

I remember the weeks of ads leading up to the debut of that "feature".

I find that difficult to believe as the joke was not broadcast.

But those Anglophiles in your Facebook news feed would have already spoiled it ten seconds after it aired in the UK.