echo "hey, it works" > /dev/null

just enough to be dangerous

Feeds in search results


I'm finding more and more feeds are being returned from Google. This seems like stupid behaviour to me. You use a search engine to meet an information need. I want to know something about Ferret, I'm likely to use a search engine to find it. Do I want to subscribe to a feed? No, that's way too much commitment. If I find what I'm after and the site looks interesting I'll poke around a bit and then I might decide it's interesting enough to subscribe to.

The correct behaviour would be for Google to return a link to the site from which the feed originates.

Yahoo Pipes


I've just created my first Yahoo! Pipe, and it was incredibly easy. I subscribe to Lifehacker, which is full of really good ways to procrastinate - ah, improve your productivity. However, I use a Mac, so I really don't want to see all the Windows tips. The screenshot below shows what 30 seconds in Yahoo! Pipes let me do; filter out all the Windows tips.
Lifehacker feed in Yahoo! Pipes
Here's the feed.