Month: August 2012

These are my fantastically selected links for August 15th, 2012 from 09:30 to 20:20:

• Former Hacker: Today’s Hacks Are All About the Money –
• Startup Spotlight: Fantasy Football Life looks to tackle giants of fantasy sports world –
• Kids With a Sedentary Lifestyle Shown to Have Nine Times Poorer Motor Coordination –
• Photo of the Week: Laser pierces the sky at ToorCamp –
• Curiosity Rover Roundup: “Brain Transplant” Done, Year-Long Trip To Mt. Sharp Starting Next Week –
• The Air Force’s New Ultra-Fast Jet Has an Epic Fail –
• Officially Licensed Star Trek Tea –
• Prankster Turns Coworker’s Filthy Keyboard Into Planter –
• Facebook Page Administrators Can Now (Literally) Count Their Subscribers –
• Karate Experts’ Superhuman Punch Comes From a Unique Brain Structure –
• Meditation Reduces Loneliness and Expression of Inflammatory Genes –
• How NOT To Handle A PR Crisis On Twitter, Courtesy of @Progressive –
• RIM to shut down contact manager Gist on September 15 –
• Google’s Self-Driving Car Passes 300,000 Miles, Employees To Start Commuting With It –
• 5 things you should not say to someone who has been laid off –
• Charts via Fonts –
• Color HiRISE Image of Curiosity Rover on Mars –
• 10 Essential Tablet Apps for Business –
• Player Caught Hiding Blank Tiles at Scrabble National Championships –
• Dawn at Coney Island on Skateboards –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 15th, 2012 from 08:30 to 09:25:

• Are Sound Waves the Future of Mobile Marketing? –
• Will Facebook Stock Tank Again When the First Lockout Period Expires on Thursday? –
• People Now Spend More Time Watching Their Phones Than Watching TV –
• Devo Are Releasing A Single About Mitt Romney’s Dog –
• India Planning a Mission to Mars in 2013, Seems Way Too Optimistic –

These are my links for August 14th, 2012 through August 15th, 2012:

• Understanding Ego Depletion –
• A figment –
• Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet, from the user interface to the back end –
• Take Magazine-Style iPhone Photos With ‘W’ Mag’s New Hipstamatic Lens Pack –
• Pinterest Finally Comes To Android, iPad –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 14th, 2012 from 17:20 to 21:02:

• Geeks on a Ferry hackathon sunk by malfunctioning boat –
• Hash Tag Mug –
• Fukushima Site Producing Mutated Butterflies –
• ZabKab App Makes Hailing Yellow Taxis Simple –
• Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker –
• Can the Flipboard Model Work for Video? Vodio Thinks So –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 14th, 2012 from 12:15 to 16:45:

• PSA from 1995 Predicts the Future of the Internet –
• Inflatable Dinosaurs –
• Progressive Disputes Comedian’s Tumblr Charge –
• CERN Breaks Record for Hottest Man-Made Temperature –
• Tetris Socks –
• Merriam-Webster Inducts “F-bomb,” “Sexting,” “Man Cave,” and Others Into the 2012 Dictionary –
• Behold The Invisible Bike Helmet! –

These are my links for August 13th, 2012 through August 14th, 2012:

• 5 ways social media can help avert a crisis –
• Microsoft: Windows RT Tablets Will Last for Weeks in Standby Mode –
• More Doom and Gloom: Demonoid Domains Up for Sale –
• Toilet 2.0: Why Bill Gates wants to change how we poop –
• Adding Fruit Juice to Chocolate Cuts Its Fat in Half –
• DC Uses Joe Kubert’s Passing As a Chance to Sell Before Watchmen Comics –
• Sesame Street Parodies Popular Video Games in New DVD [EXCLUSIVE] –
• Romney’s VP Pick Gets Meme’d With ‘Paul Ryan Gosling’ –
• Ben & Jerry’s App Uncovers Hidden Connections With Facebook Friends –
• Apple exec: Microsoft patent deal forbids design cloning –
• Groupon Stock Falls 15% After Missing Estimates –
• Spotting Cancer Cells in Blood With a 27-Picosecond Camera –
• Unicorn Poop Bubble Gum –
• 295 Movies in One Epic Remix of ‘Baby Got Back’ [VIDEO] –

These are my links for August 12th, 2012 through August 13th, 2012:

• Researchers Reach the ‘Highest Possible’ Resolution for Color Laser Printing at 100,000 dpi –
• Graphene Reacts Based on Material Beneath It, Continues to Amaze –
• Beware of Cats Falling From the Ceiling in Costa Rica [VIDEO] –
• Windows RT: Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, Asus to help Microsoft challenge iPad –
• LET’S GET LOUD: The History of CAPS LOCK –
• Is email marketing dead? Experts say no, though social integration key –
• Gmail Now Plays Classic AOL ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Sound –
• Ryan Seacrest Is Trying To Buy The Golden Globes –
• Kim Dotcom Teases the Return of Megaupload –
• Obama to NASA: Let Me Know if You Find Aliens [VIDEO] –
• Google Acquires Travel Guide Publisher Frommer’s –
• UH OH: Movie Popcorn Butter Linked To Alzheimer’s –
• 4 ways P&G is dominating the Olympics with online video –
• Genius Robotic Airplane Flies In Tight Spaces [VIDEO] –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 12th, 2012 from 11:00 to 14:00:

• Somebody is Trying to Sell an “Xbox 720″ DevKit on eBay –
• uTorrent Will Soon Have Ads in the Form of Sponsored Torrents –
• 4 Ways to Avoid Paying for Hotel Wi-Fi –
• New Insect Species Discovered on Flickr –
• Which content management system fits your business strategy? Five CMS platforms to consider –

These are my links for August 11th, 2012 through August 12th, 2012:

• 8 Google Chrome Extensions to Boost Your Productivity –
• 17 Techie Shortcuts for Content Marketing –
• Buying the thing your project truly needs –
• Universal Camera Tool Enhances Personal Photography –
• Flickr Photo of Insect Identified As Never-Before-Seen Species [VIDEO] –
• Google Just Made Pirating Stuff A Little More Annoying –
• Dozens Of Underwater Drones Deployed To The Waters Of Iran –
• NASA’s Curiosity to Spend First Weekend on Mars Updating Software –
• Behind ‘Moonrise Kingdom’s’ Unconventional But Steady March To The Oscars –

These are my links for August 10th, 2012 through August 11th, 2012:

• Star Wars Force Glove –
• A very modern trauma –
• Converting viral traffic –
• The science and politics of mind-altering drugs –
• WTF has NASA Done for You? Here’s What –