We may as well make it crazy good gamer Thursday.

He’s great, yeah, but I bet I could still take him one on one with a Battle Rifle.

(Thanks Kotaku!)

One of my favorite tech bloggers, Paul Stamatiou has recently started a summer internship at Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Paul writes a great blog that covers the latest in technology news and has often inspired many of the topics that I write about on Crashpod. He has promised to keep the blog going during his internship and already has opined about some of the inner workings of Yahoo! like free Starbucks-style coffee drinks and his new office setup. Turns out his desk is right next to Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake’s. Lucky duck.

Take a look at his blog and if you are interested in seeing what Yahoo! looks like from the inside, you can keep an eye on his Flickr photoset.

So Digg v.3 officially launched this week. Hmm… I’ve got to admit I was expecting a bit more for this being the big 3.0 update. As predicted, the content covered on one of the internet’s favorite social news sites has been expanded to include news about not just technology, but also topics as diverse as science, business, and entertainment.

And while there are also a generous amount of well thought out refinements such a streamlined layout, easier login, and better sorting of stories, somehow I feel like Digg 3.0 is lacking… umph?

Now I’ll fully accept that I’m just being dense and haven’t found a way to do this, but shouldn’t we have the ability to setup custom story lists that we can filter as we desire: say, a list that covers only content about the Xbox 360 and the Wii. That’s the kind of precision guided content I thought was coming down the line, but regretfully all I can find are high level sorting options like “gaming news” and “programming”.

Being able to filter stories by a more specific topic is certainly helpful, yes, but that’s the type of functionality I’d like to afford the user, rather than setting up concrete options that don’t change. Still, the websmiths at 37 Signals do advocate releasing small feature upgrades often, so maybe Digg is onto something?

Regardless of the update feeling a little light, Digg 3.0 is a very well thought out upgrade that creates palpable benefits for the user: give it a look!