The last two stories timothy posted were assertions of facts based on meaningless statistics (Objective-C Overtakes C++ based on TIOBE Index) and now this. Is it naive incompetence or deliberate provocation of a circlejerk? I'm not sure which is worse.

Why this managed to reach the frontpage is beyond me.

You forgot the timothy factor.

Oh, please. It wasn't an evil secret plan. They were going to announce it on Monday. They were being polite to give their employees a heads-up before the rest of the world. There is no conspiracy or hypocrisy here.

On Monday Mitchell Baker will be posting on the future of Thunderbird. We'd like you to be aware of it before it goes public. However, this is *confidential* until the post is pushed live Monday afternoon PDT. Please don't tweet, blog or discuss on public mailing lists before then.

This is not an urgent scoop that can't wait for the official announcement in two days. The submitter was a dick for leaking it, and timothy was unprofessional for approving it.

They removed the old sharing functions from Reader and replaced them with Google+. It wasn't really an update. Some even consider it as stunting Reader because they had their social network in Reader and then they lost it. As far as I know, all the employees who worked on Reader were removed from working on it years ago, and there are no plans for doing any work on it in the future.

Now I'm fearing for Google Reader, which I use all the time. Google hasn't updated it for years, so it's just a matter of time before it is "spring cleaned".

You can always go back to college later

Ah. This statement can only come out of the young and naive...

So you don't know what the announcement is, but you're speculating anyway instead of waiting a couple of days. What is this, CNN? Enough with this. I want news for nerds and stuff that matters, not circlejerking 24/7!

According to Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.

"Digital Archery" is very apt. It's a stupid name for a stupid idea made by a stupid organization.

The cashless future is already here. All of US dollars bills and coins account for less than 5% of dollars. The rest are digital. One professor of mine said it's as low as 2%.

You missed my point. It's no use calling wolf again and again. It'll just cause habituation. When the real deal comes, no one will rise to the oppose it.

Is it just me, or this story regarding UK internet censorship reappears here every few months? And it's always some sort of "consideration".

Why not post this when it's a concrete story, and not just a politician trying to gain some popularity using empty rhetoric?

Ignore the above. I wasn't paying enough attention.

Oh! You're right. I thought they are using the Cygnus DS25 which is 7.8 meters long, but they're using a model of the model.