A new social network from Google? About time. It’s been over a year since they announced their last one.

July 2049. “Grandpa, why is this photo so faded and tiny? Is it pre-digital?” “No, I made it that way using an app called Instagram.” “Why?”

“Huh, I just got an error dialog.” “A dialog? What is it?” “It’s a window with Cancel and OK buttons, but that’s not important right now.”

No, Aaron Swartz, it was you who were my hero.  http://launchpad.net/bugs/109656  And now I’ll never get to meet you.  http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html … @aaronsw

Every time a rendering engine dies, the Web becomes more efficient, but less resilient to future changes.

”Save changes” alerts in Ubuntu: what happens when you don’t have a document API to make consistency easy. http://t.co/60loi4OV

“The operation failed because another operation is using the folder, and I’m not smart enough to queue up the operations.” — @mozthunderbird

Any article on useit.com with “Best” in its title can safely be ridiculed. http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Abest+site%3Auseit.com

“I’m hoping everyone agrees with me and the idea will be implemented.” New to open source software development, are you then?

Ikea? The last time I went to Ikea was before they switched to Verdana.

There’s a nasty rumor going around that Canonical is a for-profit corporation run by staunch capitalists. (apologies to @gruber) #banshee

Great design makes success more likely. But Windows on PCs shows that it isn’t necessary, and Windows Phone shows that it isn’t sufficient.

The Nautilus file manager should have Benny Hill music built in. http://t.co/KbL0gDE [via @iainfarrell]

“This software engineering-related article is a stub.” Why yes, Wikipedia, yes it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_stub

If Google shut down tomorrow, the world wouldn’t miss Google Search as much as it would miss YouTube.

I’m now old & cranky enough that I no longer follow links without context. “This.”, “Mind blown.”, and “Just posted a photo” aren’t context.

“You’re using an unknown OS which doesn’t support Internet Explorer 9…” No, Microsoft, it’s your browser that doesn’t “support” my OS.

Samsung just cited Kubrick’s “2001” in their legal defense vs. Apple. @gruber now hunting for a NY Yankees angle so he can hit the trifecta.

Samba’s Jeremy Allison argues that copyleft is better than a permissive license when competing with a monopoly: http://ur1.ca/4cngv

If you like @littlebigdetail’s interface examinations, here’s the 1990s equivalent. http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/HISubtleties/