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Might as well remind everyone of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_hoaxes_and_easte...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

You're right, we should all of us just give up and develop RSI

Reminds me of this article from way back when: http://thingist.com/item/4372/ Not exactly the same, but talks about this attitude prevalent among tech types that encourages belittl…

"Responsive" is pretty factual - something either is or it isn't responsive. "Beautiful" and "awesome", however, I could do without seeing everywhere for a few months. Especially "…

Think how many Yahoo Chat users are under 18. Now think how many candid photos of those minors were taken and stored by this government agency.

Veering wildly off topic, but I haven't heard much from the jilted Google Reader crowd for a while. Have they found something new, or are we now living in a post-RSS world?

I'm using an off-the-shelf ecig, the type that's designed to look like a regular cigarette. I'm loving /r/electronic_cigarette and all the clever mods they've been coming up with. …

>What's the problem with recreational ingestion of nicotine? It's a light stimulant; I'm not sure why this is any worse than caffeine. And certainly isn't worse than other medicati…

That's a shame. The "smoke" from e-cigarettes is just vapour, and no more harmful to the people around the user than steam from a kettle. However, there's a discussion to be had he…

http://www.reddit.com/r/HumorousReviews

Veering off topic, but I wonder what people would say if analytics for websites required telling the user what data is being gathered about them before requiring an active opt-in.

Sorry, but you can't seriously compare uptime of cloud-based services to hard-disk failure. I've been using computers since I was 12, so about 17 years, and in that time I've had t…

He was out of phone as well as Internet contact. Maybe HN should send homing pigeons when a link gets popular?

> IMHO, it was the rise of _Web 2.0_ (oh boy, that term sounds so corny now) and uncontested Google domination of the web that made Google Reader the RSS client. This is true. I co…

I thought that too, but the article mentions that the messages couldn't be found in the accounts' Spam folders.

He actually name-checks Nexus as an example of a failed product. Meanwhile the Android community is generally in love with the Nexus 4, I know two non-techies who love their Nexus …

Bit of a non-issue really, surely? As for Microsoft being perceived as "cooler", maybe it's because their parents are all using Apple products (mine, well into their 50s, are MacBo…

I hear what you're saying, and I appreciate that you put the time in to write that out, but honestly I'm hearing this kind of argument from so many quarters ("we never look up!" "w…

I feel like it's the customers who are being punished, not so much Microsoft.

First thing I noticed too! For anyone missing it, "mega.co.nz" -> Mega Conz -> Mega Cons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick