Stop Using Google Reader! It's not gonna give you Fever anymore.

“Stop using Google Reader or NetNewsWire or whatever the kids are using these days. It’s not worth your time. [L]et other people do the filtering for you. Use your time for other things.” (Chris Wanstrath, co-founder of GitHub)

From Al3x Payne's: Fever-and-the-future-of-feed-readers

The editorial stuff here @ tinytalk 4 one still trusts the Internet @ large and especially some people @ large to filter much of the stuff out there 4 us. Lots of what we see through those looking glasses, lightly, is tremendously interesting.

The 20 per 100 we need to spice our reading with and for making great copy we get from books, free as in free beer newspapers, costly as in costly beer magazines, free association driven wikipedia reading and the likes. Not everything is a job. Not everything is a hobby. Cognitive dissonance can bring you anywhere. The more funny so. Let the Lord be our shepherd if he had an inkling to it.

Transparancy Statement: Dizz kwoute came to us through 1 of the better if not to say best filter glasses out there, freely accessible and permanently offered as a link in the masthead of this medium here: bright and poppy lcom. We repeat the hinting to Al3x Payne of twitter fame here because we kinda liked that text and even more so because, having once read the complete works of Viennes psycho nerd Sigismund Schlomo Freud in the last of our former lives, we since believe in shift and compaction.

Our brains seem to do it (s&c) all the time, as Swiss indoeuropeenist Ferdinand "The sign is arbitrary" Mongin de Saussure coming not from medicine but from laryngeal theory went very near to prove scientifically. That near proof emerged from roughly at the same time that Sigismund F. talked to bourgois frauleins about their perverted erotisizing dreams. By the way, both of these men's writing proved to be pretty furtile.

Look at not only google reader, look mainly at google pagerank, it's what they do all the time: shifting and compacting. someone should try to find out, to which side of the 2 movements google errs.

But then again: Let shift and compaction do their work for us, let science drudge on, let the Lord be its shepherd. Everything will fall into place. At the ending. Inshallah.

Just to quote 1 more from Al3x Payne's:

Today, Google seems hellbent on cramming its otherwise clean and speedy products with cumbersome, poorly conceived social features. Presumably they see social networks as a threat to their valuable side business of, uh, completely free products, and this is their ham-fisted response. In Reader’s case, the user response has been one of confusion and derision.

Now @ last: da usable stuff: Fever

Mr. Payne sort of recommends Fever (see screenshot @ top of article), a seemingly hot $30 news reader with a kind of social filtering of an undisclosed formula built in.

The $30 question, though: does Fever really float the best, most relevant content to the top in a personalized way? Can it dig through all the noise on the web and show you what you need/want to know at a glance? The free answer: sort of.

4 us here in good ole continental, the fahrenheit will be irritating. Guess what, Fever might have preferences. Go ahead, read that whole article, it makes 4 whileworth infotainment. It's also got more stuff than we here convay. 20 per 100 more, @ least. Also, take a look @ Fever. We already have. Sort of.

Bolshaya Elektronno-Schetnaya Mashina

The BESM-6 was widely used in the USSR in the 1970s for various computation and control tasks. A version named 5E26 was used in the control system of the air defense missile complex S-300.

During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project the processing of Soyuz orbit parameters was accomplished by a BESM-6 based system in 1 minute. The same computation for the Apollo was carried out by the American side in 30 minutes.

The Writing On The Wall

Nearly missed that one. A couple of days ago Kodak announced the end of the nicest bright colour film material ever: Kodachrome.

It made you think all the world's a sunny day. Not any more. Down it goes, into the oubliette.

Rick McGinnis has a nice story from Canada with photographs: The End of Kodachrome and the Death of Kodak Heights.

Für Weltbürger Deutscher Sprache

See below; New Yorker Staatszeitung.

Those Were The Days My Friend

and such were the PCs when we were young and sure to have our way.

And that was the way barely grown up white gals from Wales dressed when we were kids still, had our first blushes and crushes and did not even know about ways.

Well, we'd say, in our heart the dreams are still the same, we live the lives we choose, we'd fight and never lose. Nothing else is acceptable.