OK, Yahoo! has powered the weather iOS app since I got my iPhone (4s).

Yahoo! has a new app for weather – I believe it was released 4/18/2013 – and it is awesome.

Blows the old, built-in app out of the water.

The old app – on the left – has info and so on.

The new app – on the right – is sexier, and integrates (Yahoo-owned) Flickr pics. Brilliant.

On the plus side, the new app adds way more weather info – in a sexier way – and loses, for the most part, none of the original weather app.

On the negative side, it doesn’t give a forecast upon load – have to “drill in” for that. No downside, to me.

Oddly, the new weather app reminds me of an Android screen in look & feel to it – like Samsung phones. A departure for iOS stuff.

Is it just me?

As horrific – and just plain bat-shit insane – as was yesterday’s bombing at the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon, there was one good takeaway from the event: Patton Oswalt’s Facebook response to the act.

In part, Oswalt said:

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”
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But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out.
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We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

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Well written.