XKCD: A beautiful day in the neighbourhood

XKCD on the state of the exoplanet hunt:



To everyone who helped us figure out this much of the neighbourhood to date: thank you, one and all, from astronomers to janitors.

Hey, Google? Back Off a Tad, Please?

I just got one of those "in order to help you improve your experience, what do you mostly use our services for?" interruption screens in the midst of my log-in to GMail.

Nosy overmuch, Google-People?

And don't remind me to believe that "privacy is dead". It's not. We're just in the process of reworking what works well enough for most of us most of the time. I'm still old/young enough to understand that.

That, if nothing else.

(The rest of you that I've been doing business with for internet services, please take note. Wherever on Earth you happen to be at the moment, okay?)