Month: August 2012

These are my fantastically selected links for August 23rd, 2012 from 15:45 to 21:30:

• Autodesk Lays Off 7% Of Entire Staff –
• Reddit Launches Bus Tour to Defend the Web –
• Angry Birds join Curiosity on Mars, with help from NASA –
• Hidden Belt Buckle Knife –
• Kepler Telescope Discovers 41 New Exoplanets –
• Did Samsung Just Copy Apple With This ‘Samsung Store’? [VIDEO] –
• Brooklyn’s Deadly Pests to be Murdered Tonight –
• Space Facts Infographic: All the Planets to Scale –
• In The Distant Future, Lots of Tourists Will Confuse Taxis With a Certain Subway Line –
• Curiosity Rover Roundup: High-Res Descent Video And NASA’s Social Network, “Spacebook” –
• These Babes Want You To Have Better Sex –
• Amazing Video: Mars Rover Curiosity’s Descent and Landing in High Res –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 23rd, 2012 from 14:43 to 15:33:

• Watch Out Baldwin, Tony Danza May Want Dibs On Mayor Of NYC –
• Queens Man’s Illicit Beekeeping Operation Shut Down, Drug Bust Style –
• Explore Mashable’s Enhanced Events Board for Your Next Opportunity –
• Q&A: Why this guy implanted RFID tags in his hands, and what he does with them –
• Reboots We Hope Never Make It To The Big Screen [Infographic] –
• Tetris Silicone Ice Tray –
• A View Of The Iconic Hollywood Sign That Most People Never See –
• Amazon sets press event for Sept. 6 in California –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 23rd, 2012 from 12:06 to 14:16:

• Obama Becomes First Candidate to Accept Text Message Donations –
• Nokia, Sony and Samsung Team Up to Improve Indoor Navigation –
• Afghani Schoolgirls Are Dope Skateboarders –
• Google+ Widens Rollout of Custom URLs –
• South Korean Rivers Hit By Algal Blooms, Dam Project Blamed –
• iPhone Game Turns Presidential Election Into an All-Out Smackdown –
• Full-Frontal Nudity In Primetime TV Jumped Up 6,300 Percent Last Season –
• Did Curiosity Spot UFOs From Mars? –
• WATCH: This Regular Guy Convinced Times Square He Was A Celebrity –
• Video: A Real Working Hoverbike Zooms Across the Desert –

These are my links for August 22nd, 2012 through August 23rd, 2012:

• What you need to know about Twitter’s do-not-track feature –
• Why “likes” rarely translate to dollars –
• Going up? Space Elevator dreams will be alive in Seattle this weekend –
• Facebook-Instagram Deal: Feds are Done Here –
• ‘Lincoln’ Poster Reveals Daniel Day-Lewis’ Eerie Resemblance –
• Soldiers to Get Bomb Resistant Camouflage Face Paint –
• 6 Companies That Creatively Use Tablets –
• Locked-In Syndrome Sufferer Tony Nicklinson Dies, Sends Final Tweet –
• Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Makes Its First Test-Drive –
• Startup Attempting to Produce Bitcoin Debit Cards, Sort of Misses the Point of Bitcoin –
• Snag Access To Endangered Twitter Apps Before API Restrictions Take Effect –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 20th, 2012 from 08:08 to 14:00:

• New Poll Indicates New Yorkers Know NYPD Favors Whites –
• Instagram unveils 3.0 with enhanced profiles, no new marketing options –
• Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft’s 122nd Birthday by Getting Into H.P Lovecraft. Start Here –
• Video: Affordable Robot Hand Made with Cellphone Parts Can Replace Its Own Fingers –
• ReadySet Solar Charger Successful In Africa Now Headed To US –
• ‘The Mentalist’ Actress Sues Warner Bros For Sexual Harassment –
• Nunchops – Nunchuck Chopsticks –
• Green Day Jams With Angry Birds For Facebook Game –
• Pinned Lately –
• Science Finds That People Hate Most Workdays, Not Just Mondays. Thanks, Science –
• iPhone 5 Tsunami! Apple to Sell $144 Billion of Them, Analyst Says –
• DARPA & Harvard’s Soft, Self-Camouflaging Robot –
• Innocent Martian Rock Tweets As It’s Zapped by Curiosity –
• Windows Phone Will Soon Overtake BlackBerry in the U.S. –
• Pinterest extends social reach with new mobile apps –
• Curiosity’s ChemCam Laser Analyzes its First Martian Rock –
• What Most Professionals Are Forgetting: Test Your Social Media Strategies First –
• Vistaprint Launches Facebook Business Page Builder –
• Google alerts users to sites blocking Googlebot, removing ‘robot.txt’ code could boost SEO clicks for marketers –
• NeedNumbers.me Aids Facebook Users Who Need To Reacquire Friends’ Phone Numbers –

These are my links for August 19th, 2012 through August 20th, 2012:

• Enjoy a Century-Long Mystery With Cryptos Conundrum –
• An App for Parents Concerned About Cellphone Radiation –
• Top Gun Director Tony Scott Commits Suicide At 68 –
• Curiosity Rover’s Laser Zaps First Martian Rock –
• Hacking the brain for fun and profit –

These are my links for August 18th, 2012 through August 19th, 2012:

• Congressman’s Remarks About Rape and Pregnancy Rebuked on Twitter –
• Potato and Pepper Foil Packets –
• Would You Buy A House Built on Top of a Shopping Mall? –
• Photosynthesizing Bugs Can Channel the Power of the Sun –
• This is Where NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity is Headed [PICS] –
• The U.S. Military is Designing Anti-Suicide Spray –
• Find the Nicest Tweeters and the Asshats with This Heat Map –
• Butter finger blues: The states where people most likely will break their iPhones and iPads –
• Sriracha Popcorn –
• L.A. Restaurant Gives Discount for Staying Off Your Phone –
• Jay Leno Accepts A Pay Cut To Save Jobs At The Tonight Show After 2 Dozen Workers Are Laid Off –
• What if your slogan is true? –
• [lefthandedtoons] –

These are my links for August 17th, 2012 through August 18th, 2012:

• Online Petition Urges NBC to Cancel ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ for Glorifying War –
• How to run a problem-solving meeting –
• GeekWire Podcast: Inside the world of an RFID implantee –
• U.S. State Department pulls plug on big Kindle contract –
• Your Deleted Facebook Photos Will Now Be Gone Forever –
• [via] –
• ‘Star Wars’ Force Glove Lets You Move Objects Without Touching –
• Terrifying New Family of Cave Spider Discovered in Pacific Northwest –
• Photo Challenge: Show Us Your Most Moving Goodbyes –
• Knaxe Knife-Axe Survival Tool –
• WATCH: Penélope Cruz Dons Mario’s Iconic Suit In Nintendo’s Latest Ad –
• Everything That Might Be True About an iPad Mini –
• This Timelapse of Times Square and Rockefeller Center is Exhausting –
• Full ‘Dexter’ Trailer Reveals Season 7 Plots –
• Garry Kasparov Arrested, Beaten at Pussy Riot Sentencing –
• Citi Bike is coming to New York City in March –
• Tolkien Gets Crater on Mercury –
• New Super Hard Form of Carbon Discovered Can Dent Diamonds –
• The Parent’s Perfect Anti-Wander Device for Toddlers and Kids –
• McKayla Maroney Scowls Amiably For Stephen Colbert [VIDEO] –
• Corporations are not people –
• Pegboard Rubbings –
• Gyro Screwdriver Channels Video Game Controller [VIDEO] –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 16th, 2012 from 08:57 to 18:25:

• Did You Know That Dropbox Loves Zelda? –
• Rough Sketch: The Camera That Takes Photos 100 Times Bigger Than the Average Point-and-Shoot –
• New ‘Dexter’ Trailer Hints at Sister’s Death –
• Will Future Apple Products Have an Illuminated Touch Pad? –
• Lousy Anti-Cancer Drug Could Make Really Good Male Birth Control Pill –
• Dunkin’ Donuts App Lets You Buy Coffee For a Friend –
• Classic Blocks & Marbles Set –
• What Google’s New Stance on Copyright Infringement Means to Your Business –
• Tweeting From Home? You May Find Yourself On WeKnowYourHouse.com –
• New Stretchy, Soft Chameleon Robot Can Change Colors and Hide In Any Environment –
• Are These Apple’s Next-Generation ‘Vented’ Earbuds? [PICS] –
• The Enterprise-D Bridge Is In Shambles. Want To Help Fix It Up? –
• Google Maps: 10 Handy Tricks You Should Know –
• UK Official: Assange Won’t Be Given Safe Passage From UK –
• Instagram 3.0 Launches With New Profiles and Photo Maps –
• Step Right Up, Get Your Canned NYC Air Here –
• Is Coinstar on the auction block, and could Amazon come knocking? –
• And Now, A Supercut of Dana Scully Saying “Oh My God” –
• NYPD Sued After Pouring a Greenpoint Bar’s Liquor Down the Drain –
• WATCH Megadeth’s Lead Singer Blames Aurora, Sikh Temple Shootings On Obama –
• Google Play Gift Cards, Wishlists Appear to Be in the Works –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 16th, 2012 from 03:16 to 07:00:

• 5 Tips for Creating Professional-Quality Audio Content –
• Stuck? –
• This Might be the Best Craigslist Used Car Ad of All Time –
• Desk Pets’ Carbot Is App-Guided R/C Fun –
• Communicating at the speed of thought –