When did Google get so f-ing weird? Dan Lyke / comment 0
Sancho Panza's Thoughts — When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I've largely gone to Startpage as my search engine, but I've seen similar things, where search terms are taken as laments to be commiserated with rather than, you know, search.
I kinda feel like we're going through that period where Google retargeted itself from searching on the phrase to attempting to parse the phrase as a question, only... more surreal.
web like it's 1996 Dan Lyke / comment 1
The observation is one I can get behind: Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
I long for a world wide web that goes back to basics: Markdown for text, JPEG or PNG for images, *no* Javascript or other client-side execution, designed to be writable by a human being with a simple text editor and no fucking interactive/dynamic bullshit. Make it as advertising hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small* (as in: a large, sprawling web site should fit on 16Mb USB stick).
In other words, web like it's 1996 again.
The replies indicate that most people cannot conceive of such a world.
Went down to Golden Gate Park today for Dan Lyke / comment 0
Went down to Golden Gate Park today for Forever Grateful, which turned out to be a surprisingly impactful multimedia experience.
I'm reading Conor Dougherty's book Dan Lyke / comment 0
I'm reading Conor Dougherty's book "Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America". One of the stories he tells is of a development near a BART station in Lafayette, California getting scaled back from dense multifamily to single family detached homes. There is lots of drama, and I don't want to spoil the punchline, but the epilogue is of Steven Falk, the City Manager, resigning rather than holding on for a few weeks to take advantage of a half-million dollar termination bonus.
His resignation letter is well worth reading, especially for those of us who are looking at how other towns, like Petaluma, are fighting growth and celebrating freeway widenings.