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While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. - The Google It's sad to see the departure of Google Reader. I've been using it pretty consistently since it first appeared as a labs project and loved it. I advocated to all my friends and slowly got the all on board with using. It was fantastic to have that Group of people who would "share" on Google Reader and then it would show up across everyone else's Readers. There was the time in Google history where a privacy bug made it so if your gmail address was on the same thread in a gmail message as someone else, they became your friend in Reader and you started seeing their stories. It was awesome. Due to this great "feature" many of my friend's friends became my Google Reader friends and I could see the cool stuff they were sharing. It built quite a fun interactive environment. Once I had my reader up when a friend was over and he noticed his sister's name ...

Goooooooood morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test! This is rock and roll! Time to rock it from the Delta to the D.M.Z.! - Adrian Cronauer (Good Morning Vietnam) Growing up I associated the morning with dad. In the family, he had the highest amount of "morning person" in him. As a small kid I would be blissfully asleep in bed when he would wander in singing one of the many variations of "good morning to you..." and open the shutters on the windows in my room ("good morning to you"). I had a corner room on the north east side ("you look like a monkey"), so the morning sun would come right in the windows onto my face ("and you act like one too"). On lazy weekends we would get up, go grab some cereal, and sit down to watching morning cartoons. *chomp* *chomp* He-Man *chomp* *chomp* Captain N: The Game Master *chomp* *chomp* Mask. Back in the days of only have a half a dozen televisions stations, sometimes historic world eve...

We hope you love your new Nest. - Tony Faddell For our two-year anniversary Mrs.Chaos got me a Nest home thermostat.  It has the simple benefits of just being a super cool home thermostat with neat features about setting complex schedules and auto-detecting when I leave the house to switch to away mode.  We live in the age when robots should be doing so much more than washing our dishes and clothes - they should be vacuuming and mopping our homes, mowing our lawns, and so on. I think my favorite "feature" is the undocumented API that is available.  So I can read various settings from the Nest and then do things based on it.  Recently I wrote a script that checks the temperature of the house through the Nest API and then checks the temperature outside using Forecast.io's API.  As soon as it cools down outside below the inside temperature it sends a notification to me to open my windows! The other script I want to build is to get a few more temperature gauge...