By Kelly Faircloth 8/17/12 12:33pm

It's the End

Sliding down the slippery slope. (via The Atlantic)

Public at Large Apparently Losing Interest in Googling Computers

While poking about Google Trends, Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic stumbled across a particularly eye-catching chart. It’s the visual for Google’s Computers & Electronics Index, a.k.a. how often people search for computer-related terms like Windows, Mac, HP, Dell, and Sony. Let’s just say there’s a definite trajectory here, and it sure looks like it’s towards the dustbin of history: Read More

By Foster Kamer 12/09/11 5:02pm

THINGS TO READ RIGHT THIS SECOND

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The Difference Between Things Clicked ‘Read Later’ and Things That Actually Are Read Later: LifeSlackers

Yesterday, content-saving service Read It Later—which, like Instapaper, allows you to save the web pages you want to read eventually but don’t have time for quite right now—released a list of data about the most “Read It Later”-clicked authors on the entire whole big bad Internet, which goes hand-in-hand with their celebration of the surpassing of four million users.

But that wasn’t the only list they released.    Read More