Linkwad.

1. I desperately wanted this to be wrong.
2. It’s not great for a product when “It really doesn’t suck” is the best defense you can make. Somewhat ironically, here’s a former-Amazon-turned-Googler who thinks Amazon’s done at least one thing much better than el Goog.
3. Does this mean Ezra Klein and I are getting married on the same day? Hey, also, if you didn’t know why posting has been sparse lately: I’m getting married.

Linkwad.

The Breaking Bad finale afterglow edition:

• Lots of interviews with Vince Gilligan. Here’s the start of the AV Club’s four-parter, and here’s Sepinwall’s.
• Interviews with leading man Bryan Cranston! Here’s the AVC’s, and here’s a link to his appearance on WTF, which is absolutely required listening.
• Still more AVC interviews! Here’s Dean Norris (Hank) and Giancarlo Esposito (Gus).
• Here’s a Fresh Air interview with Aaron Paul (Jesse). Gotta love Terry Gross suggesting Jesse might have “watched a lot of Beastie Boy interviews,” even if it’s no “Thoughts for Your Thoughts.”

Conditional logic.

Thanks to Slate’s piece on the ifttt web app (it stands for “if this, then that”), I am in life-hack nerd heaven. It lets you string all kinds of conditional commands together from a whole host of services: Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Gmail, GCal, Instagram, Instapaper, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress, Youtube, and a whole lot more¹. Even better, people have set up a lot of the most common tasks, such as:

• Have ifttt look out for photos of you tagged on Facebook, then download them to your Dropbox.
• Have iftt text you if it’s going to rain.

There are a lot of others, including the absurdly specific “Have ifttt call you and read a specific user’s tweets aloud,” but I tried for something more useful, creating a taped-together Instapaper “read later” replacement for Android. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start!

Anyway, the app is highly-recommended for nerds, although most people will have next to no use for it.

Linkwad.

• The Situation’s sublimely awful new tuxedo line, “Down to Formal.” Via the Silentist.
• If you haven’t seen the Onion’s Steve Jobs obituary, you should rectify that error immediately.
• A profile of Clipper City founder Hugh Sisson.
• The coolest use of popsicle sticks ever, via Colossal.

Hipstamatic.

Thought Catalogue tears into style blogs:

What the hell are these people doing? I’m sorry, but a 50-year-old Asian man wearing a Paul Smith suit, a denim jacket, a mink stole, a Louis Vuitton backpack, Air Force Ones, and shutter shades — WHERE IS HE GOING? Does he work at an accounting firm run by Kanye West and a 10-year-old girl? Is he late for an appointment with Willy Wonka at the World Bank? Seriously, this man had one thing and one thing alone on his agenda that day: Stand awkwardly on the corner of the street, smoke a cigarette, and wait for people to come take his picture.