Just like Gmail scanning your email to serve you relevant ads... but in audio form.

The old paper mill's underground tunnels were also reused to bring in water for cooling.

This is where all of those completely-unreadable CAPTCHAs come from.

"The meme about Google+ Circles is that it beats Facebook on privacy because it gives us upfront control over whom we share with. That’s true: Every time I share something I make a decision about whether to share it with the public or some of my circles. That is better, clearer, and easier than digging into Facebook’s settings once and for all to silo my world."

Gina Trapani shares what she's learned from the first 99 weeks of hosing TWiG, a great podcast covering the deeper issues of today's social media-connected world.

Reeder, the best Google Reader client, is now available for the Mac. It has built-in Readability support so you can see the full text of articles, even if only a short snippet is available via RSS.

"I can’t think of a single telecom service that is as restrictive as the phone number: email can be accessed from any device, Skype makes apps for nearly every platform, IM works across any number of clients, there are web-based messaging solutions that transcend platforms entirely."

"As of August 1st, we will discontinue support for the following browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3."