F*ck Google Glass! Top 3 Google Reader alternatives

So, Google is closing Google Reader in order to focus on more important projects, such as Google Glass. If you want to know what Hitler thinks about it - watch the video. May be the numerous petitions will make Google change its mind, but in any case, now it's appropriate to talk about alternative solutions. There are a lot of alternatives, but basically, these are very weak solutions. It's logical, because there was no sense to seriously develop RSS service, having the free Google Reader as rival. Hopefully, the best alternatives to Google Reader will appear in the next 3 months. In the meantime, we suggest three options that look decent right now:

Netvibes

Netvibes - is a French service, which has long been on the market. They even sell the enterprise solution for creating intranet dashboards. It works quickly and reliably. Even yesterday during the invasion of Google Reader users the service worked fine. In Netvibes you can quickly import your feeds from Google Reader. Unfortunately, there are no native apps for Android / iPhone, but it provides the mobile web-interfaces that are quite slow, but in general - working properly.

Feedly

Besides Netvibes, there are few services that have considerable drawbacks (Feedly, BazQux, OldReader, NewsBlur). Of them - we would recommend Feedly. It provides a perfect web interface and even mobile apps for Android/iPhone. But it's the browser plugin, so you can't use it on several computers. There is actually the sync option, but it works via Google Reader. Despite this, the service looks most promising, if Feedly build the own feed server (BTW they have promised to do it).

FeedDemon

If you read the news on one computer, you may consider installing a desktop program to read RSS. The best of them (for Windows) - is FeedDemon. The main advantage - no one will be able to take it away, this program will always work. There are two FeedDemon versions - paid and free. The free - has a small ad unit. The paid provides additional features, such as filtering feeds by keyword. It costs $20.

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Reblog from Recovering Yogi
Dear self: fuck you
Published on November 22, 2010 by Kris Nelson ?

By Kris Nelson

Dear Self,

Maybe, instead of meditating with crystals and chanting mantras, you could just stop?being an asshole.

Please don?t misunderstand. I don?t have anything against meditating with crystals?(privately*) and chanting mantras, per se. That?s fine. And it?s the latter that?s?important.

If I could sum up my lifetime of spiritual work and the canon of human wisdom and?devotion, as I see it, it amounts to the following: don?t be an asshole.

I don?t mean to mock or make light of spiritual work and the canon of human wisdom.?Well, that?s not true, I do. Modern spirituality is also easy to mock. (Brilliant?mockery, by the way, is what makes RecoveringYogi great.) Though, the real greatness of?RecoveringYogi rests not in its mockingly flippant perspective that consistently spews?foul language, but instead resides in its capacity to see, express and retain the value?of the things it mocks. That?s post-post-modernism, bitches.

Sadly, in all the indulgence of self in the name of indulging the Self, something?valuable is often lost, and that?s the refinement of self. It?s troubling to me that?most people embedded in the culture and practice of self-awareness, self-improvement?and self-empowerment are rarely actually aware, improved or empowered, and are often?instead more self-righteous, contemptuous and critical ?than the ?common man.? ?(Like?me and this post, for instance.) The Walt Disney Company, for example, typically treats?their employees better than most yoga studios, and they?re big assholes.

You see, my dear friend, I had an experience about five years ago.

One minute I was talking with Adyashanti, and the next minute I was like, ?OMG,?everything really is one.? And then I woke up the next day and I was like, ?OMG,?everything is oner.? And then the next day, ?Double OMG, everything is onerer.? This?went on for about six months, and the experience still rests in my heart and saturates?my mind with ecstatic embrace.

From this aha moment forward, I taught yoga less; I taught spirituality more. I did the?satsang thing. I blogged. I would talk with people one-on-one and they would have?similar experiences? but the experiences would never sustain.

This was all neat. But, sadly, with this new awakening came a lot of awareness,?humility and honesty. Suddenly, I knew. I knew what I had been hiding from all my life,?and that was the fact that I was an asshole. And, sadly, in my supreme state of?resplendent revelatory enlightenment, I knew that I was still an asshole and probably?also a total douche bag. In my non-thinking state, a thought floated up through my?mind: Dear Self, Fuck You.

I worked all my life to be enlightened, and the only thing I got was the realization?that I was?and still am?an asshole.

Waking up doesn?t abolish the ego (which is, very simply, your conception of self?and?even more simply: who you think you are). It just puts it in perspective. With my?newfound perspective, I realized I could be a better self. Not from the place of self-awareness, self-improvement or self-empowerment, but simply because that?s what my?heart wanted.

Instead of writing a book about waking up or going on a speaking satsang tour, I?decided that I would focus simply on being less of an asshole? and also get a real job.?I would generally try to be less self-centered. I would help old ladies across the?street. (This is hard in West Hollywood because there?aren't?many old ladies except the?elderly Russian women that smell like cabbage and hang out by Whole Foods.)

Back to my original point: If your yoga doing, crystal rubbing, and handstand pressing?isn't?making you less of a self-centered dick disguised in chanting beads, consider?doing something else. Otherwise, you too might wake up one day to realize that you?re?just an asshole.

Source: http://zeeashtanga.blogspot.com/2013/03/dear-self-fuck-you.html

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Two survivors broke window, swam from Ohio crash

A car carrying eight people went off the side of a road in Ohio and flipped into a pond, killing six teenagers. WKYC's Will Ujek reports.

By Thomas J. Sheeran, The Associated Press

WARREN, Ohio -?Two teens who escaped a crash that killed six friends in a swampy pond wriggled out of the wreckage by smashing a rear window and swimming away from the SUV, a state trooper said Monday.?

The inside of the sport utility vehicle was entirely under water within minutes of the crash, said State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt.?

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Beduareo Marquez climbs up the pond embankment where he retrieved a shoe from the crash site that six teens died on Park Ave. in Warren, Ohio on Sunday.

Investigators don't yet know why the eight were in the speeding vehicle without permission when it smashed into a guardrail and flipped over into the pond Sunday morning around daybreak, Holt said.?

No one in the group had asked to take the vehicle and its owner was not related to any of the teens, Holt said. The vehicle was licensed to a resident of Youngstown, about 20 miles away.

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"That's all we know right now," he said.

The two teens who escaped have talked with investigators, Holt said. The two boys ran a quarter-mile to a home to call 911, the highway patrol said.

Investigators were focused on speed as a key factor in the crash and said weather did not play a role.

While citing an unspecified "high rate" of speed, investigators wouldn't speculate on whether alcohol or drugs were involved in the crash on a two-lane road snugged between guardrails in an industrial section of the city.

"I can't believe you're gone," Mariah Bryant, 12, wrote in a message taped to a stuffed bear at the scene in memory of her half-brother, Daylan Ray, 15, who was killed.

'Love and miss you'
"I love and miss you so much," said the message, which drew a steady stream of onlookers. The bear was part of a growing memorial of stuffed animals at the roadside.

Deanna Behner said her 15-year-old son and the other teenagers were close friends who lived in the same neighborhood on the east side of Warren, Youngstown TV stations WKBN and WYTV reported. Behner told the stations that authorities unsuccessfully tried for hours to save her son, Kirklan Behner.

The Honda Passport veered off the left side of a road and overturned about 60 miles east of Cleveland, State Highway Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston said. Investigators say it came to rest upside down in the swamp and sank with five of the victims trapped inside. A sixth, who was thrown from the SUV during the crash, was found under it when the vehicle was taken out of the water.

Holt said Sunday evening that speed was a factor, although investigators were still trying to determine the speed at the time of the accident.

"We will not be speculating on alcohol and-or drug usage pending toxicology reports," Holt said.

At an impound lot where the wreckage was taken, with windows smashed and extensive damage to the front end, hood and roof.

Ralston didn't know where the teens were headed when the crash happened and Holt said later it wasn't clear how long they had been out.

"All I know is my baby is gone," said Derrick Ray, who came to the crash site after viewing his 15-year-old son Daylan's body at the county morgue. He said he knew that his son, a talented football player who was looking forward to playing in high school, was out with friends, but didn't know their plans.

Warren Fire Department Capt. Bill Monrean said a cold water rescue team was deployed to the scene and got five teens out of the submerged vehicle.

'Knew we had a chance'
"Being a cold water rescue situation, cold water extends life," Monrean told AP Radio. "We knew we had a chance; even being in there a while."

Two of the teens, both 15, were brought to a hospital in full cardiac arrest, St. Joseph Health Center nursing supervisor Julie Gill said, and were pronounced dead there. She said they were treated for hypothermic drowning trauma, indicating they had been submerged in cold water.

The two survivors, 18-year-old Brian Henry and 15-year-old Asher Lewis, both of Warren, were treated for bruising and other injuries and released, she said.

All those killed were ages 14 to 19, authorities said. State police identified the others as the 19-year-old driver Alexis Cayson; Andrique Bennett, 14; Brandon Murray, 14; and Kirklan Behner, Ramone White and Ray, all 15. The Highway Patrol said Cayson was the only female in the vehicle.

Rickie Bowling, 18, a friend of Behner, sobbed at the crash scene as she recalled his playfulness and reputation as a cut-up.

"He was one of a kind," she said. "Everyone knew him in the neighborhood. In school, he always made everyone laugh."

Officials opened a school where several of the victims attended to provide counseling for families Sunday night. Superintendent Michael Notar called the crowded closed-door session heartbreaking and said counselors would be available again Monday in schools.

Cheryl Moore, 54, whose nephew is a classmate of some of the victims, emerged from the counseling session and said it was helpful. "I just feel we have to come to grips with what happened today," she said.

All eight were from Warren.

Warren, located near the Pennsylvania state line, is a mostly blue-collar city that was hit by the decline of U.S. steel mills. It has more than 41,000 residents in the industrial Mahoning Valley region.

Associated Press writer John Seewer in Toledo and Dan Sewell in Cincinnati contributed this report.?

Related:?Ohio town mourns 6 teens killed in mysterious car crash

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Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/11/17271700-deadly-ohio-crash-two-survivors-broke-rear-window-swam-to-freedom-trooper-says?lite

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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg talks about her first salary negotiation ...

After mostly avoiding interviews for several weeks before the high-profile launch of her controversial book, ?Lean In,? Sheryl Sandberg broke her silence Sunday night with a pre-taped chat on the CBS program ?60 Minutes.? And while the interview was mostly friendly, Sandberg recounted some revealing anecdotes that she?s also shared in her book and recent speeches on the subject of women and their careers.

Arguing that the women?s revolution has ?stalled? ? she cites statistics that show women?s gains in top corporate jobs have slowed ? the Facebook chief operating officer contends that women must push themselves forward to advance their own interests, in spite of social conditioning to do the opposite.

To illustrate her point that women are often reluctant to negotiate for higher salaries, for example, Sandberg and her husband described their different reactions when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recruited Sandberg from a senior post at Google to run the business operations at Facebook. Sandberg says she was ready to take Zuckerberg?s first offer, but her husband, Dave Goldberg, and her brother-in-law convinced her to ask for a better financial package. (Ultimately, that package included enough shares in Facebook stock to make her a billionaire, at least on paper, before the company?s share price declined.)

?Not because the money mattered so much, but it was the principle,? said Goldberg, a former Yahoo executive who?s now CEO of the startup SurveyMonkey. ?I wanted Mark to really feel he stretched to get Sheryl because she was worth it.?

Sandberg also talks about her first six-month performance review from Zuckerberg. By her account, Zuckerberg told her, ?You?re biggest problem is you worry way too much about everyone liking you all the time.? According to Sandberg, her then-24-year-old boss told her that she would never make an impact unless she said something that at least someone disagreed with. ?It?s going to hold you back,? she says he warned her.

Those are just two of several instances in which Sandberg has acknowledged her own insecurities. At the same time, she says she was called ?bossy? as a child and says that?s partly why she wants to change the way society views women who assert themselves.

?This is deeply personal for me,? Sandberg told the CBS correspondent Norah O?Donnell. ?I want every little girl who someone says they?re bossy to be told instead, ?You have leadership skills.? ?

?Because you were told you were bossy?? asks O?Donnell.

?Because I was told that,? Sandberg says. ?And because every woman I know who was in a leadership position was told that.?

It may be noted that Sandberg only smiled modestly during the interview when O?Donnell remarked on her wealth and success and called her, at one point, ?one of the most powerful women in the world.?

And while saying it bothers her that there?s never been a woman president of the United States, Sandberg also brushed off O?Donnell?s question about whether she might run herself.

?I feel like I?m doing all the leaning in that I can do right now,? she said.

CBS has posted the interview and some additional video clips here, on?the??60 Minutes? website. Sandberg?s foundation, LeanIn.Org, has its own website. And here?s the Merc?s article on her book and the Lean In campaign.

(Photo credit: ?60 Minutes? ? CBS)

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Source: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/03/10/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-talks-about-her-first-salary-negotiation-at-facebook-and-her-first-job-review-by-mark-zuckerberg/

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Officials: Homemade alcohol kills 51 in Libya

By Ali Shuaib, Reuters

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Fifty-one people have died since Saturday after drinking homemade alcohol, most of them in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and more than 300 others were suffering from alcohol poisoning, the health ministry said on Monday.

The consumption and sale of alcohol is banned in the North African country, even though it is available on the black market.

In a statement on its website, the ministry said 38 people had died in Tripoli and another 13 had died while on their way to Tunisia for treatment.

"There have been 378 cases of alcohol poisoning so far," the ministry said, adding the illegal concoction was believed to have contained methanol. The deaths were among that figure.

It gave no further details about the alcohol or its source.

With its long, porous borders, Libya has seen a significant increase in drug and alcohol trafficking since the 2011 war that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

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MacGyver Challenge Winner: Catch Bottle Caps With Magnets

In this week's MacGyver Challenge, we asked you to hack something cool with magnets. We received some great entries, but the winning hack shows us a simple way to improve a bottle opener.

Check out the description of the winning entry below and read about some of our other favorite entries.

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Winner: Catch Bottle Caps With Magnets

Sometimes, the simple hacks are the best and this week's winner shows us something that almost anyone can make use of right away. Jmbarbera mounted the magnet from an old hard drive (a great source of strong magnets) under a wall-mounted bottle opener. It's surprisingly effective, catching the bottle cap every time. No longer will that stray bottle cap get away from you, hiding face up and waiting for your bare feet.

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Honorable Mentions

We got a lot of great entries and we'd be remiss if we didn't share some of our favorites. Here are some of the entries that really impressed us.

Keep Your Dryer Door Open

Like many of us, Steve had a dryer door that would start to swing closed whenever he and his family loaded clothes. Fed up with that bit of irritation, Steve decided to solve the problem Lifehacker-style. He cut a small piece out of the drywall and mounted a magnet inside the wall. He patched the hole, covered it up with a little spackle and paint, and now the door stays open whenever it touches the wall. If your door just doesn't want to stay open, the first thing to check is whether the dryer is level?most have adjustable feet. But if that doesn't solve your problem, Steve's hack may be just the thing you're looking for.

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Stick Your Smartphone Anywhere With This Magnetic Case Hack

Stone-D likes sticking his iPhone 5 to things, so he fitted neodymium magnets to his Moshi case. His photo does most of the talking, but he can now stick his phone to pretty much any metal surface like his fridge or monitor. As a bonus, he can use the magnets to mount a jeweler's loupe to the case for macro photography.

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Save Space While Organizing Your Makeup

Elizabeth lives in a small house where storage is at a premium. She wanted a way to organize her makeup, make it easily accessible, and save space while doing it. Her solution? She painted a piece of sheet metal and mounted it to the back of her closet door. Elizabeth then glued magnets to the backs of her various makeup pots and slapped them right on her new metal board. Problem solved. You can read more about how Elizabeth put this together on her blog.

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Create a Periodic Table of Spices

Tyler wanted a creative way to display his spices. Sure, people have long been using magnetic spice racks, but being an engineer and an Alton Brown fan, Tyler wanted to follow the notion of cooking as chemistry. After spending some time on Wikipedia researching taxonomy, he decided to create a periodic table that grouped his herbs and spices by Order and also included the Family, Genus, Species, and English names. He also created the symbols used on the tins. The end result provides out-of-the-way storage and it's a thing of beauty. Tyler has created an instructable where you can learn more about he made it.

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A big thanks to everyone who took the time to send us entries! Be sure to check back every week for a new challenge.

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/Ztbnc-WVx7o/macgyver-challenge-winner-catch-bottle-caps-with-magnets

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Critics Consensus: Jack the Giant Slayer is Fee-Fie-Fokay

Plus, Phantom is out to sea, 21 and Over is short on laugs, and The Last Exorcism Part II wasn't screened for critics.

Also opening this week in limited release:

• Oscar-nominated War Witch, a drama about a Congolese girl who is kidnapped and forced to be a child soldier, is at 89 percent.
• A Place at the Table, a documentary about the effect of hunger on poor Americans, is at 88 percent.
• Hava Nagila: The Movie, a doc about the history of the celebratory song, is at 75 percent.
• Leviathan, a meditative documentary about commercial fishing boats and their environs, is at 73 percent.
• Stoker, starring Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode in a thriller about a teenager recovering from her father's death who becomes close with her mysterious uncle, is at 68 percent.
• Ginger & Rosa, starring Elle Fanning and Christina Hendricks in a drama about a pair of teenage friends with anxieties about their home lives and the threat of nuclear war, is at 55 percent.
• The End of Love, starring Mark Webber and Shannyn Sossamon in a drama about a young father dealing with the death of his wife, is at 55 percent.
• The Sweeney, starring Ray Winstone in an action thriller about a group of tough cops investigating a murder, is at 52 percent (check out Winstone's Five Favorite Films here).

Finally, props to Donald Whitman Jr. for guessing Dark Skies's 30 percent Tomatometer.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926942/news/1926942/

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