Fifty-plus and rain. I'll take it. The drizzle has bollixed up the 35W-94 exchange; on the way to the office traffic was backed up to the Iowa border, but that's becoming the norm these days. I'm sure they'll announce an overhaul sooner or later, and everyone will complain bitterly about the delays for three years, after which we'll whiz through the area without delay, completely forgetting the previous aggravation and taking the clean broad road for granted. Anyway, it would be nice if the rain came in snow form some time this month. Hard to get into the holiday mood when it's a damp early November day.

TECH The Daily App, as you've probably heard, is shutting down after two years, having tailed to attract enough people to pay for it. This makes sense to anyone who spent much time with it. While it had some nifty features - that 360 of Tahir Square was an eye-opener, and showed what the medium could do - it was, for the most part, sparkly and silly and weightless. Says allthingsd:

Yes. It crashed. Open the app: loads, freezes, crashes. Repeat. It's not as though the iPad was some device with so many wild variations developers couldn't know what they might experience. If you release something for the iPad and it crashes on the iPad, you're telling your audience "we're just throwing this out there because we're already late and its mostly stable and getting yelled at by the boss for the crashing is something we can put off until next week."

Exactly. It felt like USA Today - something you find outside a hotel room or read at McDonald's while you have breakfast because someone left it behind.

It was also undone by apps that let you build your own daily paper - Flipbook, Zite (my favorite) and even AOL's version, Editions.

Meanwhile, in other tech news, Time says:

Here's the ad, the usual modern mish-mash aimed at people who actually use the term "bro" to refer to other men:

Who am I supposed to high five? Myself? A person sitting next to me? Verizon? Shouldn't I high-six someone, given the price?

UPDATE You may recall this:

Chinese guy refuses to let them demolish his house to build a road to the new business district. Well.

Says the news:

Oh, I'm sure he did.

WOW Almost five hours of plane landings in San Diego, collected in one concentrated video.

Landings at San Diego Int Airport Nov 23, 2012 from Cy Kuckenbaker on Vimeo.

That's almost what it looked like at my house on 9/11, when they brought down all the commercial flights as quickly as possible.

TECH Good news! They're deciding the future of the internet behind closed doors. That'll go well for all of us. Wired says:

I don't know why anyone's worried. This is the UN we're talking about, right? Relax. If they don't have everyone's best interests at heart, I don't know who does.

Besides, here's how attempts to regulate the internet generally end up:

GEEK Finally, a poster for an upcoming movie, with the name and tell-tale typeface removed. It should take you about 2 seconds to realize what it's for.

Can't wait.