The lunacy of this article will resonate with anyone remotely connected with the technology industry, let alone those involved in software and web development.

But here are my favourite bits of abject cluelessness:

JavaScript then, Objective-C now? HTML then, XML now? What the fuck have you been smoking, Chris Anderson? … and don’t tell me it was some “junior staffer” subbing the living crap out of your stupid lack of perspective.

… and then this little gem to finish things off, ignoring years of evidence that we enjoy temporary dalliances with convenience before returning to (often quite) revolutionary openness:

The Internet is the real revolution, as important as electricity; what we do with it is still evolving. As it moved from your desktop to your pocket, the nature of the Net changed. The delirious chaos of the open Web was an adolescent phase subsidized by industrial giants groping their way in a new world. Now they’re doing what industrialists do best — finding choke points. And by the looks of it, we’re loving it.

I’ll make my own bold, unsubstantiated claim… Wired: Tired and expired.

Glad I have that off my chest. Thank you, ball boys.

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Update: Check out this hilarious take-down from Boing Boing … with facts! … and analysis! … and pretty graphs!

Description of the problem: Google returns feed URLs in search results. These are rarely helpful to searchers in general, but downright mystifying to those who don’t know or care what feeds are in the first place. When using the main Google search interface, I’d imagine that feeds are not high on the list of desired results for most users.

Steps to reproduce the problem: Google for “wordpress mysqli”, and look at the second primary result (your milage may vary, considering Google’s various customisations of search results).

Actual results: Feeds appear in Google search results, sometimes even prioritised over their html document parents! I took a screenshot to illustrate:

Expected results: Removing the feeds altogether might be over the top — it depends, of course, on the context of the search and the feed. But where they might be useful, Google could provide one of its signature unexpectedly awesome features. Maybe something like this (though I probably should’ve snipped the summary in this case):

How often does this happen? All the fucking time!

But I still love you guys.