I’ve often said that placing too much reliance on Web 2.0 applications for your day to day needs is like balancing on a razor. Gmail goes down and you have no mail until they recover and now today we have folks in a panic because Google Reader had a glitch that saw the disappearance for feeds until the glitch got fixed. I’m sorry but being married is as about as dangerous as I want to live for all else I want my data close at hand.

We all know how dull and boring email is - well maybe not your emails themselves but the way in which we get them and view them as items in a list. Well it appears that Robert Savage had enough of boring and has released 3D Mailbox. Now you can see your email stream as guys and gals coming through the gate to your own little resort at the seaside. Apparently Robert doesn’t like spam much either which I guess explains the sharks in the water - which is where you send those nasty spammers; well in thought at least [via Google Blogoscoped]

This one goes right into the down right warped category but if you are into all things Twitter then you might appreciate the humor in MyTinyJesus - a domain that displays random Twitter quotes from the image of a tiny Jesus. I’m still trying to figure out why but whoever is behind this has got a warped sense of humor. [via FranticIndustries]

Jeff Atwood a firm believer in Microsoft Streets and Trips user relates the tale of being convinced much to his dismay that maybe the death of desktop applications - well at least mapping ones - is just around the corner. This was after finding out that his wife had gone to the darkside and been using Google Maps because it was - faster. It was even worse when he tried for himself and found that yes it was true - Google Maps was faster - oh the horror .. [via Coding Horror]

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