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.

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.

Another scary/depressing edition, unfortunately:

• We are the 99 Percent tumblr.
• While CEO pay rises, thanks to repeated “above-average” contracts (via Yglesias). When San Jose police and fire unions did this, city government basically went bankrupt.
• The short of this long article: forests store carbon, slowing global warming. Global warming kills forests, and could accelerate.
• What? Racism’s not a thing anymore, though!

Linkwad.

1. An interesting multipart Slate discussion of transhumanism.
2. I sort of thought Bones made up this job.
3. Brad Plumer on Solyndra and the state of solar power.
4. Netflix: crazy like a fox?
5. If this volcano blows, the 2012er morons will be even more insufferable.
6. G+ lives again.
7. Behind the scenes of Louie with Louis CK.

Linkwad.

• Did you want a reason to hate at least 50 of your fellow Americans?
• Did you want many, many reasons to hate the NCAA?
• Twitter analytics are on the way. @RWW, via @GinaTrapani.
• Graphs > words, because we are all three they’re more effective.