Xbox Consoles are up: http://curicon.com/categories/browse/2344

You beat me to it :) Thanks.

That TC piece on "interest-based" social networks came to mind when I saw this. I think there's a limit to what needs to be segmented, but this happens to be square in my interests and it makes a lot of sense.

Also makes me think of Ravelry, Etsy, etc. With the Facebook /Instagram media saturation of late, it's nice to see some news about something else in the social space.

... hadn't realised I'd missed "Nerd Pride Day".

Would be nice if it were a public holiday, but for now I guess we just have to live and hope :)

Had a similar experience. Only it was for a band from my own country! They're shooting themselves in the foot, with shotguns.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018774

Interestingly I look at this news in almost the opposite way!

I used Opera desktop for something like 10 years too. When I moved to Chrome (maybe 3 years ago?) I was like, "ah, this is what these websites are supposed to be like". I was actually quite sad to say goodbye and I still miss a lot of the features (sidebar!), but it always struck me that Opera was living in a bit of a dreamland where they just hoped the web was 100% standards compliant. Admirable, but unfortunately (in the short term at least) users suffered because so many sites just didn't quite work. This may have improved since I jumped ship.

If a major company could give Opera the resources to catch up to Chrome in that area, then I'd be excited for the potential to create a comprehensively market leading browser.

Is that a problem anymore? I haven't really noticed any site that had serious issues in Opera (or chrome) - even my bank now works.

The only site with any problems is my Outlook Web Access and that only works full in IE.

In terms of Opera users not being allowed into sites: mostly just experimental "Look at what we can do with random vendor extensions we've decided to call HTML5 today".

In terms of performance though, Opera has some weird issues. Try to go to theverge.com and scroll.. it's not pretty.

I once tried to buy a digital album from a local band, without using iTunes (just don't like it).

After searching around (which, to Benn's point, probably took longer than illegally downloading) I found it listed on Amazon. After I downloaded their ridiculous download software (just give me a zip?), I got right up to paying, when I was told that they were not licensed to sell to countries outside the US. Great. I can't buy my country's own product on Amazon. Nice one music industry.

At that point I gave up.

Yep, pretty sure they're being facetious.

Nnnnooooooooo! Here's hoping they don't screw it up. I love LaCie design. Would be a shame to see it compromised.

Must say, hadn't noticed the heavy UI, but now that I think about it, a bit ridiculous that Gmail still has a loading bar.

Can't comment on Google Plus, I kept my account for about 2 days. Not terrible or anything, the value proposition just wasn't there for me.

Interesting point. Realistically, Heinz would prefer that you didn't get all the sauce out, because you'll buy another bottle more quickly if some isn't accessible.

I believe the physics concept behind this is:

- An object will remain in the same state of motion (or rest) unless acted on by a force.

When you hit up on the bottle, you are applying a force primarily to the bottle. The force is applied to the sauce inside to a much lesser degree, so it stays closer to a state of rest. Therefore if the bottle goes up and the sauce stays at rest, it has the effect of moving the sauce down to the neck of the bottle.