Then Google can watch you in your home, and figure out how to best sell you the shit you don't already have.

Notice that "google" is conspicuously absent from this announcement. Because they don't want you to realize what it actually means: Google having cameras in your house, watching and quantifying everything you do.

I already think that the Nest is more intrusive than I'd like - if it gets cold here (Los Angeles) I'd just as soon throw some logs into the fireplace. The idea of putting the interior of my home under voluntary video surveillance is downright ghoulish to me. I suppose a large number of people will flock to whatever…

Google bought Nest. Nest bought Dropcam. So really, Google bought Dropcam, right?

I'm not buying ANY form of cameras that Google is in any way associated with. Their monopoly reach in our digital life and now extending to our every day lives is getting far beyond an alarming level.

No, it's not the same thing. The reason why you can't make your cable TV connection freely available is because that connection is delivering content that the cable company has to pay for. Your internet connection isn't delivering paid content, it's just delivering bandwidth (which you can use to seek out whatever…

SleepCycle changed my life back in the day.

Not quite the same though, Comcast is making it public for their customers, so you essentially are using your resources (power, housing, etc.) to make their network larger.

gathered for a quiet sunset, which was interrupted by a loud unmanned aircraft

I think it's pretty clear that the National Parks Service only has jurisdiction over the United States. Of America.

I believe there are very nasty downdrafts around the hole.

I use mine quite heavily, mostly because the Netflix interface on the PS3 gives my wife vertigo.

That's not true. 20 million sold to date. I have 3.

Finally! Some Apple TV love! I have 3 of these things in my house. They allowed me to ditch Time Warner cable last year. But they're getting long in the tooth.

I think the issue was when there's a fire the heat can generate drafts within your home and those drafts can make a curtain flap around and if that happens too close to the Nest it silences it.

The protect also sends alerts to your smart phone telling you that there is a problem or a fire. This is useful if your Nest goes off and you are not at home. If the Nest Protect detects carbon monoxide and you have the Nest thermostat the Protect will tell the thermostat to turn off the furnace because that is most…

I think this one (Is it by Google?) makes the most sense, but at the same time it confuses me every time I see it.

It drives me crazy to see this insistence on icons over text. Even on phones, there's plenty of room for text! Plus, if I want to do a text search of a page, it will actually show me where the damned button is.

The article you link dances around the problem but I don't think really hits it on the head: The problem is that "share" is highly contextual so means radically different things depending on what you're sharing to.

I think that the most obvious share icon just needs a tad more "obvious" to it: