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    Uhhhh I was wrong about this. Changing it to “1 year” on any device will update that setting on all devices syncing to iCloud, and messages older than 1 year will be deleted.

    Oh no! Please disregard my advice. I was incorrect! I have just noticed that the setting on my MacBook and iPhone have now changed to “1 year” and messages older than 1 year have been deleted.

    I want to add, since this answer has eluded me for years: If you change the setting to “Keep Messages for 30 days”, this will delete local copies of the messages, but, as long as these messages still exist on other devices that are syncing to iCloud, it *won’t* delete them in iCloud.

    Chiming on the hour is a long-standing optional feature of most digital watches.

    SafeShepherd — while it’s great in theory, and I’d be willing to pay (and have been paying for years) $14/month for their service — they are effectively dead. The site was inaccessible for weeks over the winter, and I haven’t seen them successfully find and remove any of my records for months. In fact I just looked

    "...breathing, b-b-breathless... heaving breaths... heaving..."

    Do anything via Drafts actions. I have a dozen or so bookmarklets set up that append to Dropbox files, send to Things, send to Pinboard with certain tags specified, etc.

    I'm waiting on Feedbin support from Reeder.

    Looks like this was once "ReadNow"?: http://lifehacker.com/5871395/readnow-provides-a-native-mac-desktop-interface-for-instapaper-and-readitlater

    Pruppets aren't real.

    weather.gov is also great because you can just enter your zip code into the URL: e.g., [weather.gov]

    Giz: The bacteria were not discovered already having arsenic-based DNA; it was only after they were put in a lab that they replaced the phosphorus in their DNA with arsenic.

    @bsoft: I tried to explicitly acknowledge that there is no objective "quality": "And if we can pretend for a moment that there is an objective scale of quality..." My use of "pretend" was crucial there.