... any news aggregator?
http://www.newsonfeeds.com/faq/aggregators

You're kidding, right? Any mail provider... I don't know what to say.
* I hosted my own until a few years ago
* yahoo
* hotmail
* my isp
* everyone and their brother

I don't get it. Why are you just spreading FUD? OK, maybe you don't like google. But you can't come up with a single service that they have shut down and really inconvenienced their users. And you're naming gmail just looks dumb - they make money off that. And while it would not surprise me even a little if reader goes away, I fully expect that it will just roll into some other service they provide (plus, probably); not to mention that they make it trivial to migrate away, should you so choose:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/export-feeds-from-google-reader-folder.html

What's the deal?

... when it isn't google.

Riiiight...

OK - name one of google's services that they have canceled in a way that screwed the users. Where they lost their data or could not get it out in a very meaningful way.

Yeah, it's a shame that you're 100% locked in to their free service, there is no warning, and you can't get your data out, or use any alternatives.

Oh, wait...

I realized, belatedly, that it is still in the title. Used to be prominent in the page - as I recall.

I was going to ask:
How is this "News for nerds - stuff that matters?"

But it looks like /. dropped that tagline. And a good thing, too, since this is just crap.

How?

Link please.

What panels did you buy, when, for how much, and who installed?

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

Nearly by definition, what you eat (no matter what) is a subject of ethical debate - exactly *because* you don't think there is anything wrong with eating any kind of animal and because other people do.

Hmm. I can use Reader from my app account, but still can't use plus, there. I wonder if that's gonna change.

I'm spoiled by the languages I've used. Ruby has very strong support for decoration at both the object and class level.
http://tenderlovemaking.com/2008/12/04/nokogiris-slop-feature/

I *really* do enjoy ruby. If you have an opportunity to take it for a spin, I think you might enjoy it.

I seriously cut my teeth on Obj-C, but it's been quite a while. I remember it had reasonable decorator possibilities at the class and object level, but it was fragile base class where variables were concerned. Methods you could do anything with. I *think* that's changed in the past 10-15 years.

I never tried Smalltalk, but I thought it would decorate just as easily as javascript.

So I'm still hoping for something with strong subclassing support. I just enjoy 'em more.