Everything is broken into subreddits on reddit and if you learn to select the subreddits that interest you instead of just reading the "rage comic" and "pet picture" subreddits it might be of more interest.

Rage comics, advice animals, scumbag x, etc have bled over into virtually every subreddit now. It's basically part of reddit's culture.

I've said it before, but you can unsubscribe from a subreddit, but you can't unsubscribe from a culture.

I haven't seen that at all on the sub-reddits I frequent. Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough, but I still find /r/machinelearning, /r/semanticweb, /r/compscipapers, /r/csbooks, etc. to be very useful.

There are many subreddits where posts/comments along those lines get downvoted hard.

Agreed. My mix of subreddits is article heavy and awesome. I'm always a little surprised when I find myself logged off on the default front page - about 85% imgur links at least.

On my droid x it often is rebooted when I try and send mail with the gmail client.

Twisted seems like a good option. Here is a good question on stackoverflow with some comments: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/117561/what-are-good-open... Although, you should try to find something you have a personal interest in as well.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

"First, Twisted should be fun. It began as a game, it is being used commercially in games, and it will be, I hope, an interactive and entertaining experience for the end-user."

"Twisted is a platform for developing internet applications...Twisted is a good (if somewhat idiosyncratic) pure-python framework or library, depending on how you treat it, and it continues to improve."

"As a platform, Twisted should be focused on integration. Ideally, all functionality will be accessible through all protocols. Failing that, all functionality should be configurable through at least one protocol, with a seamless and consistent user-interface."

- http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/vision...

SUCCESS STORIES

"Lucasfilm has used Twisted in its business-critical production processes since 2004...We use Twisted to proxy database connections for our render farm, which runs 24/7/365."

"Justin.tv is the largest live video site on the internet. We allow anyone to broadcast live video from their PC and chat with viewers. Every second of every broadcast is archived so it can later be browsed, searched, or made into highlight clips.

Each of Justin.tv's half a billion monthly pageviews passes through a custom Twisted caching engine."

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/SuccessStories

Twisted is kind of notorious for being difficult to pick up and use, even for experienced Python programmers..

I bought and read the Collective Intelligence one and enjoyed it. It's a good read.

Agreed. The collective intelligence book has had good reviews from me and others on HN in the past. It's a good intro text with implementable examples.

+1 - I actually already own this one and find it's great as well.

I know with my Black Berry on Verizon my screen is littered with new Apps that I never installed (Bing, NFL,Skype, and more). It is pretty annoying.

It's no the same thing, those apps come pre-bundled when you purchased your blackberry, the Google mechanism is a safeguard for when a malicious app slips through, and it only applies to apps downloaded from the market.

These apps were not pre-bundled with my blackberry.. Bing didn't even exist.. Blackberry users just woke up one morning and apps were added.

I really want to start running in this barefoot style but I am having trouble knowing if I am using a proper technique. I know it is mostly about landing on your ball or just below it but that is about the extent of my understanding. Could you provide any resources?

to grannyg00se (author of dead sibling of this comment): you appear to have been put on some sort of HN shit-list where your posts are being autokilled. You should email pg and ask him to remove the ban.