I’d heard that Google had been test­ing putting links to RSS feeds into Gmail accounts, but hadn’t seen it until a day or so after it was offi­cially announced.

Yet another item com­pet­ing for my atten­tion! But I don’t mind it really… not all that use­ful though. I’ve left in word of the day and quote of the day and recipes and stuff like that, that I wouldn’t nor­mally bother look­ing at. It’s a bit of fun.

What’s also funny is that they are at least slightly con­tex­tual. Every­time I go to check my spam bin — that’s spam with a lower case “s”, as in the junk email annoy­ance — I get feed items for deli­cious Spam recipes — that’s Spam with a cap­i­tal “S”, the meat prod­uct. The one that I have never even seen out of a can. In fact, I don’t think I know any­one who actu­ally eats it. But it’s great for mak­ing jokes as we’re doing the gro­cery shopping.

Were I ever to con­sider eat­ing the canned meat by-product (as I’m mostly veg­e­tar­ian, that’s even less likely for me than most other peo­ple), I am now armed with quick and fan­tas­tic recipes, cour­tesy of the big G.

Thanks again, Google.