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Techcrunch has a story about how fanbox changed the way they handle people who want to unsubscribe. Duncan Riley gives them the benefit of the doubt. I dont know if he should. This is the same company as sms.ac. They’ve already been through this before. I believe they knew exactly what they were doing, and decided to go ahead and do it anyway. You cant give someone the benefit of the doubt forever.

I also hate the way that they get people to enter in the details of their email accounts. This is deceptive. I know its the same functionality that linked in, facebook, and a bunch of other sites offer to see which of your friends are members of their service, but the language here seems to be a bit more dishonest. They should mention that they are going to check your contacts to find friends who use the service or something like that.

I got a message in my gmail, and I thought it looked like spam. But it was from a name Ive been expecting something from for the last few days. I opened it and realised that it was spam, but saw how it was a different kind of spam. Instead of a link in the email to a dodgy website, this one has a link to Google.

This is the Search Result Page

Iv never seen anything like this before. I hate when spammers get clever.

I hate dancing more than I can possibly explain. I hate doing it myself, which I can’t anyway, but I loathe and resent the necessity to try. I hate watching other people do it. I hate the way it breaks up conversation. I hate the slovenly mixture of sexual exhibitionism, strutting contempt and repellent narcissism that it involves. I hate it when it is formless, meaningless bopping and I hate it (if anything even more) when it is formal and choreographed into genres like ballroom or schooled disco. Those cavortings are so embarrassing and dreadful as to force my hand to my mouth.

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry, the funniest man alive, has started podcasting. The first one was ok, but this is an excerpt from the second one, and it is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

I read about some of the drama about friendfeed over the last couple of days and thought id try it out.

While playing with it I started realising that what friendfeed really would be awesome as a feature for twitter. Right now its the other way around, twitter is a feature on friend feed. If you could create a friendfeed client like snitter, wouldn’t that pretty much eliminate the need for twitter for a lot of people?

I dont think you can send messages to twitter using friendfeed as of right now, but that shouldn’t be too difficult to to do. But once that functionality is in their, twitter becomes superfluous to a lot of people.

Fuck Hulu

Absolutely Hilarious

I’ve been reading Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson, who has been chosen to write the final book of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. This is a really really good book, I’m enjoying it tremendously.

Every time I look at Sandersons blog though, I can see that he gets these books in the same way i did. I had remarked earlier about how he agreed with one of my keys to being a WOT fan. And now I see another point of agreement. The person who first told me about the series recommended I read it years ago, before Path of Daggers came out. I never got around to it till right before the release of the 11th book Knife of Dreams. When I spoke to him after I started reading, he told me how its starting to get too much for him. Too long, and the pace has started to slack off. I loved the series all the way through(though I would have to say if books 7,8,9 and 10 were 2 books instead of 4 it would probably be even stronger). We have very similar reading tastes, so we tried to break it down. What we came up with is almost exactly what Mr. Sanderson talks about in his post on Crown of Swords:

I object to complaints about pacing.  I thing the pacing across the series has been even, and I certainly didn’t find this book to be any slower than previous volumes.  However, perhaps that’s because I’m able to read these all through without any wait in-between.  One thing that is happening is that as the series grows longer, the viewpoints per character grow less and less frequent.  There are enough main characters with important plots that we can’t spend an entire book focusing on just two or three of them like we did during the early books.

These books are so detailed, that it becomes difficult to enjoy that detail if your struggling to remember specific plot points while your reading. If the whole story is fresh it works better, and the details become something one savours.