Month: October 2012

These are my fantastically selected links for October 4th, 2012 from 10:00 to 11:30:

• This App Will Automatically Call Your Parents When You Crash Your Bike –
• U.S. Publishers Gain Rights Over Google After Settling 7-Year Lawsuit –
• WHOOPS: Film Execs Confused Yuan With Dollars When Claiming That ‘Looper’ Earned More In China –
• Science Confirms The Obvious: Not Everyone Can Be Hypnotized –
• Giant Plastic Maxi Pad Could Clean Up Oil Spills –
• Twin US Spy Telescopes Could Further American Astronomy –
• 7 Ways We Thought The Radio Would Transform Presidential Debates –

These are my links for October 3rd, 2012 through October 4th, 2012:

• Facebook Hits One Billion Active Users –
• Rawbots: A Robot Crafting Sandbox Game –
• Gucci Unveils ‘Pinnable’ Banner Ad –
• Samsung and Clear Channel team up for ‘impossible to miss’ campaign –
• Do the (extra) work –
• Geeky Posters by Harshness –
• Presidential Debate Most-Tweeted Event in U.S. Political History –
• Virtual Grocery Shopping Eases Daily Commute –
• Mitt Romney: Tesla Motors is a ‘Loser’ –
• Broadcom Teaches Kids to Program in an Hour Using Raspberry Pi –
• KitchenAid Tweet Shows, Yet Again, Why Social Needs Mature Talent –
• The Swizzle Cleans Your Inbox By Combining Promo E-mails Into a Daily Digest –
• British Film Institute Plans to Digitize 10,000 Films by 2017 –
• Romney vs. Big Bird: Internet Defends Scorned Muppet –
• The MetroPCS Deal Won’t Save T-Mobile –
• Apple Maps App Was Actually an Art Project [VIDEO] –

These are my links for October 2nd, 2012 through October 3rd, 2012:

• MTV Hosts Live Twitter Fact Check During Debate –
• The New Matt Damon Movie That Blasts Fracking Was Partly Funded By The Government Of Abu Dhabi –
• YouTube Introduces ‘Appeals Court’ for Copyright Fights –
• Life Abhors Arsenic, Even In Extremis –
• Nearly Three Years Later, It’s Finally Time to Understand Lost –
• Twitter Offering A New Way To Reach Your Audience: Surveys –
• Google introduces cost-per-expansion display ad format –
• Charging Your Phone Becomes a Game With This Toyota App [VIDEO] –
• Amnesty for latecomers –
• Barack Obama meets Madden NFL: Political ads find a home in video games –

These are my fantastically selected links for October 2nd, 2012 from 18:06 to 19:47:

• Flag On The Moon Cufflinks –
• Futuristic Contact Lenses Could Change Children’s Eye Shape, Prevent Nearsightedness –
• If Christopher Columbus Had Apple Maps [COMIC] –
• Rapper’s Mic Silenced at Microsoft Store for Rowdy Performance [VIDEO] –
• Twirling, Twirling Towards Energy Independence: Spinning Solar Cells Could Boost Energy Production Twenty Fold –
• Mark Zuckerberg: I Wear the Same Thing Every Day –
• Today On Mars: Bathurst Signals –

These are my fantastically selected links for October 2nd, 2012 from 15:30 to 17:51:

• There Really Is a Smartphone Inside ‘EW Magazine’ [VIDEO] –
• ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Gets Own Character on ‘South Park’ [VIDEO] –
• Obama Campaign Deletes ‘Lady Parts’ Tumblr Post –
• Every Sip, Toast and Chug on ‘Mad Men’ [VIDEO] –
• Iranian News Agency Issues Greatest Retraction Ever After Onion Mix-Up –
• Ambitious $1 Billion Project Aims To Drill A Hole All The Way To Earth’s Mantle –
• U.S. Patent Office Opens First Branch on University Campus –
• Dave Grohl Confirms Foo Fighters Hiatus –
• Woman Loses License Over Red-Light Camera Ticket, Hadn’t Been There in Over a Year –

These are my fantastically selected links for October 2nd, 2012 from 06:30 to 15:17:

• Former Apple, Nasa Engineers Design $11,000 Coffee Machine –
• NASA Astronauts Dressed Like Jedi Monks in 1964 [PIC] –
• Every Mad Men Drink Ever, The Supercut –
• 2,700 Year Old Egyptian Mummy’s Fake Toe Is World’s First Prosthetic Device, Works Surprisingly Well –
• Wello: Affordable, Personal Training Using Video Chat [REVIEW] –
• Does Apple Maps Jeopardize National Security? –
• Why We Name Storms, and Other Fun Storm-Naming Facts –
• How The Death Of A Mystery Investor Took Down An Entire Broadway Show –
• Genetically Engineered Cow Produces World’s First Hypoallergenic Milk –
• Reddit Makes Suspicious Onlooker More Famous Than Tom Cruise, Proves Power of Internet Once Again –
• Mittformer: The Mitt Romney Action Figure [VIDEO] –
• Boeing’s New Space Junk Scheme Clears Debris With a Cloud Of Ballistic Gas –
• Facebook Cracks Interbrand Top 100 Global Brands –
• If Your Android Phone Is Stolen, This App Photographs the Thief –
• Group Attempting to 3D Print a Gun Somehow Surprised When Their Printer is Confiscated –
• Ultrabooks Get Super-Slim With Acer Aspire S7 –
• A Look Inside the Real Disney Vault –

These are my links for October 1st, 2012 through October 2nd, 2012:

• Is Your Social Media Policy Against the Law? –
• Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Mars Attacks –
• Denying facts you don't like –
• Watch This: Elementary Is, Unfortunately, A Good Name for This Show –
• Ikea apologises for deleting women from Saudi catalogue –
• Taplister helps beer-lovers find what’s on tap –
• Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5, Allowed to Sell Galaxy Tab 10.1 –
• A police scanner for the Twitter generation: Seattle PD introduces ‘Tweets by Beat’ –
• Jack Daniel’s Rejection Letter Guy Gets New Book Cover Design –
• Try This Brain Bending Origami Trick [VIDEO] –
• ‘Once Upon a Time’ Breaks GetGlue Record –
• Scientists Aren’t Dumb; They’re Just Liars, Say Totally Reputable Scientists –

These are my fantastically selected links for October 1st, 2012 from 16:46 to 18:01:

• I’m just here for the research –
• Smartphone Accessory Manufacturer Does Not Understand Venn Diagrams –
• Today On Mars: Check Out Curiosity’s Martian Roadmap –
• Learn the Surprising Reason Why the Sky Goes Dark at Night [VIDEO] –
• The iPad Mini Will Be Less of Everything –

These are my links for September 30th, 2012 through October 1st, 2012:

• Here’s What Disney’s West Coast Epcot Would Have Looked Like –
• Earth is Singing Like a Whale, Says NASA — Hear it Now –
• Everything You Remember About 30 Years of CDs [PICS] –
• Digital Passport For Children Encourages Responsible Online Behavior –
• Gun Shots Underwater Turn Bullets Into Art –
• IKEA Edits Women Out of Saudi Catalog –
• Square Acquires NYC Design Firm 80/20 –
• Dear Apple, Please Re-Release the Old Google Maps for iOS 6 –
• Get Your Hands On 20 Banned Books For Free –
• We Are All Born Scientists, Study Finds –
• Adele Teases Her ‘Skyfall’ Theme Song on Facebook and Twitter –
• Here’s Why Disney’s Spending Nearly $2.3 Million On Republican Candidates In Florida –
• New Coronavirus Could Infect Millions during Hajj in Saudi Arabia –
• Report: Venture-backed IPOs and M&A deals slow in Q3 –
• Japanese Researchers Claim Success In Creating Element 113 –
• Illuminati Rap Art –
• Kindle Paperwhite debuts to (mostly) glowing reviews –
• Iran Only Blocked Gmail Because They Couldn’t Figure Out How to Just Block YouTube –
• Facebook Likes The Sound Of Mixcloud –
• This Sports Team Takes Twitter So Seriously They Painted Their Handle On The Field –
• The easiest way to thrive as an outlier –
• Watch These Quadrotor Robots Learn to Play Catch [VIDEO] –
• 7 Free Android Apps for Killing Time in Lines –
• Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is the Best E-Ink Screen You Can Buy [REVIEW] –