Author: Ben

Interesting news from the folks over at FeedLounge: their service, a web-based aggregator along the lines of Bloglines, is going to be a subscription service intially. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.

Update: As Alex points out in the comments, there will be a public version at some point after the intial release. Having both has worked rather well for some folks. Flickr comes to mind with its pro accounts, as do Basecamp and Backpack. Good luck!

Disclaimer: I work on Bloglines as a UI engineer.

First, the best Christmas light display ever, and second, lizards and screaming girls. Enjoy.

Via BoingBoing, an awesome video of some high school kids playing various super mario themes on the marimba.

Dear The Internet, please refrain from using the word “architect” as a verb. It’s driving me insane. You cannot “architect” something. You do not “re-architect” a product. Please hire copy editors and stop sounding like idiots.

Of course, if you didn’t sound like idiots, you wouldn’t be The Internet.

Others share my pain:

• Don’t Let Contrived Words Clutter Your Language
• SIGIA-L: “Architect” is not a verb
• Believe Me, You’re Not Architecting
• Architect is not a verb

It just happens to be this one. It’s such a decision. New car or new camera? I’d need a loan for either…