Goats Yelling Like People

But first, take a look at Atlantic City's new "Revel" hotel casino. It took six years and $2.2 billion to build, and opened last May with the promise of revitalizing Atlantic City. Unlike the smoky caves of yore, the casino had windows! The building was modern and refined instead of a big faux-historical pile. Elegant and sophisticated.

Aaaannnd it just declared bankruptcy. The story had this hard-to-resist link:

Don't get your hopes up. It's just a slide show of the place looking nice, and empty. The story of its troubles can be fund here.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAH In case you missed it, the fake Guy Fieri Menu is the funniest thing on the entire Internet at this moment.

GOATS Here's two minutes of goats yelling like humans.

You're welcome.

SCIENCE We're happier than Iowa. Based on our tweets. Really. It's Science.

Damn boo ugly rainbow wine! Tweet that and confuse the Mechanical Turk. Which, by the way, was named after an early robot scam. Also known just as "The Turk."

WEB Would you like to see some old low-value baseball cards defaced in the style of a 1977 13 year old? Perhaps you would:

There is a tumblr devoted to these things, and I'm glad. Go here.

TECH Headline: App usage has stalled as Smartphone Users Hit Burnout. Are we hitting app overload?

She has too many, then. It sounds as if Jenna might have hit app overload, but the first rule of Tech Writing - aside from knowing what Apple must do in the future - is to extrapolate big trends from one's own personal experience. The article says:

Android Market? Top five? People use that more than Twitter or Angry Birds or Instagram? Possibly, but when the top five app includes one whose function is "buy more apps" it doesn't make sense, and certainly doesn't indicate burn-out.

I'm a sucker for weather and photography apps, and usually buy one of each a month. Currently I use Solar, which tells me what I want to know.

Push your finger up to see the weather in the immediate future; pull down for three day forecast; swipe for another city. That's about all I need. The less the better is my motto for apps, and I suspect for others as well.

Other things I have learned: with the exception of photo apps, anything that goes into a folder is forgotten forever.

Anything that's four screens back is never used, so confine yourself to three screens.

There: saved you some agony over whether we're all suffering app burnout. Which we're not.

Another thing I never use: GTD apps. Get Things Done. I have gone through many list apps, which sync and let me tag things and cross off completed tasks, and not one is satisfying. I use these. With a pen.

They're not only sturdy, they're beautiful. Fans slaver for new colors, and they know it. They know we'll buy them if they're just white. The inside copy is clever but deadpan, and sometimes you think the entire thing is a marketing joke: surely they can't be this serious about notebooks. I mean, here's a description of the steno pad (which I have, for no reason):