I agree that it's the best show on TV at the moment. Perhaps when it ends it's run in a month or so, some other show will be the best on TV. But for this summer, yeah, this is it, and it's great.

USA picked it up for the second season before the first episode aired, which is a fairly bold move, showing the faith the network has in the show.

It was also originally conceived as a movie, and the first season of the show would have been act one of the movie, so it's laying a fine, detailed groundwork for whatever is to come.

This is a great point, thanks for the screenshot, it's very illustrative.

One aspect of Google+ that always grated on me was that the name was terrible branding. I don't know if I'm in the minority for feeling this way, but with with all their other services that one gets tied up with, you don't want a 'plus' you want to think about the social aspect as a compartmentalized, separate section. They'd have been much better off calling it something else, or at least trying to be a lot quieter about tying all of it together.

I am sure the social media trend numbers looked great on paper, but they severely underestimated how tired people would get with it. (I'd say only a small fraction of my facebook friends still are active there, for instance.)

Anyhow, my troubles with the G+ branding may sound like a nitpick, but I think it was a lot of the problem. People already had privacy concerns about Google, now they could have privacy concerns+.

I am totally sold, because my github repos are numerous and I'd love to tag them all. But the tagging feature needs a cancel button, not just save.

And drag and drop of the tags doesn't work, dragging them to the right on the green background only scrolls it sideways.

When I try to drag off the side, it's scrolling sideways and kind of breaking the UI. I'm using Chrome on Windows.

I'm not european, but I imagine that the amount spent on this mission (which launched in 2004!) is miniscule compared to the amount that would be needed to fix a country's economy.

I'm finding this whole thread interesting, but your comment is the inspirational one I'd hoped to find. Thanks.

I believe it was flagged as being akin to celebrity gossip.

Possibly. I'm curious if this one survives.

I think the great thing about this story is the crowd. That's a detail to arcades that is forgotten to time. Whatever the game, if someone was good at it, (and the arcade wasn't totally dead of course,) people would stop and watch. You could save your quarters and watch graphics and levels you'd never seen.

Thanks!