I guess what I need is less an RSS reader (I use feedly and it updates the sites I'm interested in well) and more something that lets me scan through (especially Canadian) news headlines. The end of google reader is just an excuse to get rid of Internet clutter...

I've never used any aggregator, I didn't think the death of Google Reader would be as painful as it appears to be.

Hey, does anyone use a news aggregator that they particularly like? With the death of Google Reader, I've decided to take some advice about my RSS reader and cut the daily news out.

I've used Newsmap which is nice visually but still gets all its sources from Google News, and that includes some of the inane and stupid.

Any suggestions?

That animation is ridiculous, considering the amount of code involved.

@Alison - that's cool, wiki syntax isn't that hard to pick up once you've used it a couple of times. I just recently learned it myself while having to document everything I know about the university social network.

http://js1k.com/2013-spring/demo/1459

This is just amazing. It's a competition to write a fully functional and most impressive app in pure javascript in under 1kb. This is a procedurally generated minecart ride complete with gravity, terrain features, and dynamic lighting. That's insane!!

Note, it's also insane how slow FF is with JS rendering. Use chrome to view that.

It's even *more* impressive when you see just how little 1kb of js really is. Here's the entire source for that animation:

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I like this:

I always had the impression that those rules were more to keep the fliers and patients paying attention to their pilots and doctors than for safety reasons, which is understandable if misguided. Don't they know that whatever's on facebook is guaranteed to be far less interesting than this book I'm allowed to read?

ps - That Star Wars "Inside Job" thing was fabulous.

In unrelated news...

I just kind-of got asked to be a wiki editor.

It’s like they knew just how much I’ve been fighting the urge to join a wiki for, like, years. ... since before I joined Facebook. Shit. I’m so going to do this, even if I resist for the next month; and even if it requires "learning mediawiki syntax for developing content". It’s a forest ecology wiki. I am so screwed. I should just say goodbye to me evenings and weekends from now on, shouldn’t I?

hahahaha, shit.

My mom got permission to use her cell phone in the Mazankowski Heart Institute last week. I figure, if they let people hanging out in the heart surgery recovery wards use their cell phones (all's ok, my dad's getting screened, nothing's that scary), then whatever else is supposedly being affected really can't be truly getting that affected.

... or hospitals would have ALWAYS been wifi/cellphone/pager/etc. -free zones, for the sake of all that sensitive medical equipment.