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If you've never heard of it, If-This-Then-That is a service that lets you connect websites together, so that things that happen in one place automatically trigger some regrettable action someplace else. For example, you might write an IFTTT ‘recipe’ that tweets anything you post on Facebook, because you are a monster.

I'd heard of it (I may have even signed up with it at some point), but this has to be the best explanation of IFTTT I've come across.



Maciej is a fabulous writer with a deft mix of wry, self-deprecating wit and precise expressions.

If you aren't familiar with his writing, you'd likely enjoy "Dabblers and Blowhards" http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm



"Argentina on Two Steaks A Day" is one of my favorite essays ever: http://www.idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_d...


WTF did I just read? I think it was genius but I'm not entirely sure.


You are correct. It is genius. On the other hand...


That is a classic which I have been forcing my friends to read for years. I had no idea it was written by the same author.


This one is just gut-wrenching to read: http://idlewords.com/2012/09/no_evidence_of_disease.htm

And this, of course, is a modern classic: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm


Thank you for sharing the first one. Gut-wrenching, and yet ... I cannot stop reading (other than to post this).


The second one sounds a bit too glib until you notice that one of the websites he makes fun of is his own.


when i was reading it i was impressed by the quality and tone of the writing.




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