Dueling Magical Negros on Vimeo Looks like Morgan Freeman wasn’t available.
(tags: magical negro dueling funny race comedy) What The Fuck Is My Wearable Strategy? “MONEYCLIP THAT POSTS TO FACEBOOK WHEN YOU NEED A SHIT” “TEMPORARY TATTOO THAT TWEETS WHEN YOU HAVE NIGHTMARES”
(tags: funny humour technology wearable strategy) Allah vs atheism: ‘Leaving ( Read more... )

St James Infirmary - Primus Motor (harmonica, mandolin, doublebass) - YouTube Soulful harmonica version of the blues standard.
(tags: blues music st-james-infirmary) The Porn Block Fiasco goes mainstream « Complicity “The knowledge that attempting to block porn on the internet is bound to backfire has now gone mainstream. (BBC News, Telegraph) Well ( Read more... )

The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang Ted Chiang’s short about memory, time and loss. It’s also an alien first contact story.
(tags: heptapod story science-fiction time ted-chiang sci-fi language first-contact memory) Cambridge: Poles apart Why Warsaw beats Cambridge Blog Mike Levy “A weekend in Warsaw made me think about Cambridge at night. In ( Read more... )

The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm Tells it how it is.
(tags: twitter controversy funny storm satire) Age-ism, Transhumanism, and Silicon Valley’s Cognitive Dissonance - Better Humans - Medium “If you’re irrelevant at thirty, why live forever?”
(tags: silicon-valley ageism transhumanism aging) Ken Auletta: Can the Guardian Take Its Aggressive ( Read more... )

▶ Founders@Google Presents: The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange - YouTube A presentation from Joek Spolsky on the Stack Exchange sites and the culture they’re trying to promote there, contrasted with things like discussion forums, other "answers" sites, and whatnot.
(tags: discussion stack-exchange joel-spolsky internet stack-overflow ( Read more... )

The Ecuadorian Library - Geek Empire - Medium SF author Bruce Sterling on Assange, Manning and Snowden, and the surveillance geeks at the NSA: "Citizens and rights have nothing to do with elite, covert technologies! The targets of surveillance are oblivious dorks, they’re not even newbies! Even US Senators are decorative objects for the NSA. An ( Read more... )

UFOs, Ghosts and a Rising God Chris Hallquist’s debunking of the stories of the resurrection of Jesus is now online. It’s a good read. It’s mostly a response to popular apologetics on the subject (Habermas, Craig, McDowell and so on) and an argument that the evidence is worse than that for more modern paranormal events which we justly reject (the ( Read more... )

BBC News - Leaked letter shows ISPs and government at war Dave wants a scheme were people uncheck a box to get pr0n described as "default on" filtering, allowing him to claim victory without the ISPs changing what they’re doing.
(tags: politics pornograpy porn censorship internet david-cameron) David Cameron’s crusade against images of child abuse ( Read more... )

Ambidancetrous: The Blog - “We don’t want to make people uncomfortable.” (aka, “What about teh menz?!”) "Ultimately, some of the worry that some straight guys will be uncomfortable dancing with other men (or being led by a woman) may be justified." Het guys: you lost the oppression Olympics, so your comfort and consent about who touches you is ( Read more... )

So, those blighters at Google are getting rid of Google Reader at the beginning of July. I currently use it. What should I use instead?

I read my feeds on a variety of devices so it’d need to be something which shows the same subscriptions wherever I’m reading from. That’s probably a web-based reader, I guess.

Most of my feeds contain text rather ( Read more... )