I’m not sure how new this is, but it’s really great. Since the content aggregated into Google Reader is time-based, and often becomes irrelevant quickly, it makes perfect sense to expand the usual mark as read functionality to include various time spans. Makes paring down a several-thousand-item unread count easy. Epic win.
I can’t decide. Is the use of “-ize” on each navigation tab a clever way to enforce parallelism (one of my favorite rhetorical devices), or silly, trite and another example of how lolspeak iz killing teh English? Weigh in below.
So. If you’re going to sell a service that’s based on, you know, being good with words online, maybe avoid an obvious redundancy?
Check out the icons Gravatar stole for this page:
Let’s see. The computer is from Vista, the globe is… I dunno where it’s from, but it looks familiar. The webcam is the camera app on the iPhone, and the folder-and-hourglass job is, I think, from an old KDE theme. Way to slap that one together, guys, especially on a page every user sees.
Github makes a nice joke while you’re waiting for an archive to be created:
