How to lose 8000 photos

The cloud is not your friend. Do not depend on the cloud. Once upon a time this would've sounded like something you would say to friend who has developed a delusional attachment with things in the sky, but now you know what it means. Here's a piece about how "a bug in Dropbox" accidentally deleted 8000 photos. Well, that would be bad, but those were backed up, right? No? NO? The author wrote to Dropbox: "This is an absolute disaster, I don't have any other backup of these files, Dropbox was supposed to be the backup."

If it's your only copy, it's not a backup.

YOU THERE The modern style of headline writing isn't intended to catch your eye but punch you in the nose, because you totally deserve it. The author is better than you because the author is writing for Gawker, and you're just reading. Basic format: Bald assertion, and preemptive accusation to deflect your objection. Today's example:

Idiocracy Is a Cruel Movie And You Should Be Ashamed For Liking It

No, and I'm not, and good luck in your future endeavors. As one comment says:

On the last point, no. He's one of the smarter writers on the site, and constantly produces intelligent, engaging work grounded in a comprehensive grasp of 20th century technological history. Which is why it was dismaying to see his work get Gawkerized thus.

Related, from the Daily Dot: "You're tricking yourself into believing your iPhone is slow." Didn't know that about yourself, did you?

That's such an NPR way of putting it. Why not just say "ALIENS"? That's what we're all thinking.

BREAKING NEWS Reet-deet-deetle-deetle reet-deet deet-deet:

What you want to read next is "the other 25 clowns were unharmed."

Is there a word for a quantity of clowns? A Pennywhistle, perhaps?

Votd Finally, the great lost cartoon show of the 80s has been found and restored! MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES!

GRIEFERS This Kotaku piece concerns the amiable sociopathy of a gamer who lured many Blue Sentinels to their deaths, and made a video compilation set to Tiny Tim music. Yes, I know, again? Again. It had a link describing what Blue Sentinels are, and if I may excerpt:

There are many, many other such collections of words in the entry, including helpful warnings: "Even if you are a Blue Sentinel you still can be invaded by an Arbiter Spirit (Blue Phantom)."

Consider the time required to understand all these things.