Month: December 2012

These are my links for December 20th, 2012 through December 21st, 2012:

• Three-year-old incubated 7 deadly snakes in his closet –
• Syrian Army Uses Cluster Bombs –
• Who Will Watch ‘Gangnam Style’ For the Billionth Time? –
• The Best And Worst Performances By The Same Actors In 2012 –
• Facebook Rolls Out Privacy Shortcuts in Plain English –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 20th, 2012 from 18:00 to 20:59:

• ‘Back to the Future’ LEGO Set Is Really Happening –
• Money Can Buy Happiness… By Spending It On Others [Video] –
• Find Your Vital Gmail With a Google Search –
• It looks like Overstock is getting ready to compete with Amazon Lockers –
• Socioeconomic Status Predicts Number of Facebook Friends –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 20th, 2012 from 15:55 to 17:05:

• Video Game Blog Will Honor Sandy Hook Victims With a One-Day Ceasefire –
• What’s The Most Corrupt Government In The World? [Infographic] –
• RIM Loses BlackBerry Subscribers But Grows Cash Pile –
• Rhapsody allowing AT&T subscribers to pay for music subscriptions with wireless bills –
• Archaeologists Unearth Remains of Man That Tried to Reason With Volcano, Turned Out About Like You’d Expect –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 20th, 2012 from 00:06 to 15:24:

• We’ve covered the moon with 400,000 pounds of trash, including bags of pee –
• California is turning this industrial town into a car-free oasis –
• NASA once planned to feed astronauts emergency fruitcake –
• The Latest Trailer For ‘The Great Gatsby’ Will Make You Wish It Wasn’t Pushed Back Until Next Year –
• Why The Entertainment Industry’s Release Strategy Creates Piracy –
• Tumblr Launches New iPad App –
• Best Buy’s top geek Stephen Gillett resigns after 9 months –
• Twitter Appoints New COO and CFO –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 19th, 2012 from 04:50 to 20:00:

• National Review writer: Men and “husky” boys could have prevented the Newtown school shootings –
• Cheese – The New Health Food? –
• Watch This Gift-Wrapping Robot Make Elves Obsolete –
• Data.gov Moving to an Open Source Platform –
• Something is leaking from the Deepwater Horizon site, but it’s not clear what –
• We Want These “Ultrastretchable” Charging Cables Now, Please –
• Mistletoe has better things to do than give you excuses to kiss people –
• Incredible gigapixel photos let you see Everest’s glaciers before they disappear –
• France Passes Law Granting Free Birth Control to Teenagers, and No One Balks –
• The Eagle-Snatching-Baby Video Is Insane, But It’s Also Fake –
• Charlotte’s airport employs 1.9 million worms to compost leftover food –
• Higgs Duality: Contradictory Results At LHC –
• Boeing fills plane with potatoes for WiFi breakthrough –
• Test for Alzheimer’s May Be Undermining Drug Trials –
• Squid have been committing mass suicide — and now we might know why –
• How A Quirky Violinist Is Using Social Media – And Tapping Gamer Culture – To Become An Unlikely YouTube Hit –
• Nutrition Group Wants Beyonce To Drop Her $50 Million Pepsi Deal [THE BRIEF] –
• Stop slouching! Startup scores cash for high-tech posture-sensing waistband –
• Report: Facebook Page Posts Will No Longer Feature Third-Party Attributions –
• The Weather Channel Adds Local Alerts From National Weather Service To Facebook App My Friends’ Weather –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 18th, 2012 from 18:00 to 23:30:

• Pythagorean Theorem –
• Awesome Teen Wins Fight Against Sexist Easy-Bake Ovens –
• How Social Media, Mobile Are Playing a Bigger Part in Healthcare –
• Outraged Fans Threaten the Life of Amazing Spider-Man Writer Dan Slott on Twitter –
• Zuckerberg Gives $500 Million in Facebook Stock to Charity –
• Zuck’s Wedding Photographer: Where Instagram Went Wrong –
• 5 Free Alternatives to Instagram –
• The NRA’s “Kid’s Stuff” Page –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 18th, 2012 from 06:39 to 15:16:

• Don’t bother with negative SEO, explains Matt Cutts –
• Google Maps Found a Drone Landing –
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• Every New York State Law, 1638-1922 –
• Woman Arrested for Filming Stop-and-Frisk Sues NYPD –
• SantaCon: The Least Wonderful Time of the Year –
• There Are Now More Than 200 Million Active Twitter Users –
• Facebook, Germany At Odds Over Users’ Real Names, Pseudonyms –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 17th, 2012 from 11:00 to 19:48:

• JetBlue Delivers Cousin’s Goodbye Letter to Newtown Child’s Funeral –
• Will Sliding Images Make Captcha Less Annoying? –
• Racist Obama Tweet Gets College Football Player Booted From Team –
• Window-Cleaning Robot Ready to Suck Your Glass –
• NASA’s Twin Moon Probes Crash Successfully Into Moon! –
• AOL marks $1.056B patent sale to Microsoft with $1,056 holiday bonus for employees –
• Gmail dropping ActiveSync support for new devices — Microsoft ‘very surprised’ –
• Here’s What a Facebook Gift Looks Like –
• Rumor: Amazon Contracts Foxconn to Manufacture 5 Million Smartphones No One Will Likely Buy –
• For the 36th November in a row, global temperatures were above average –
• Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal With a Beer Can –
• NBA Players and Old People Make for Adorable Instagrams –
• Finally, the R Train Will Cross the East River –
• Tonight, Two Spacecraft Will Crash Into the Moon at 4,000 MPH –

These are my links for December 16th, 2012 through December 17th, 2012:

• Brooklyn DA Candidate Says He’ll Personally Decriminalize Weed, End Stop-and-Frisk –
• GeekDad Approved: OpenBeam — It’s Like Lego Parts and Pieces for Makers! –
• Ridiculous is the new remarkable –
• Apple smartphone lead threatened as Samsung doubles market share –
• Twitter Makes Good On Promise, Begins Rollout Of Downloadable Tweets Archive –
• 5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week –
• A chance to win a MIMP APP subscription tonight by following us on Facebook –
• Anonymous Publishes Personal Information of Westboro Church Group –

These are my fantastically selected links for December 16th, 2012 from 07:00 to 12:04:

• NASA Will Livestream Tomorrow’s Lunar Probe Crash –
• Twitter Rolls Out Downloadable Tweets to Select Users –
• Twitter Introduces New Feature to Download All Your Tweets –
• Stephen Colbert visits Google to promote his book, has no idea Google sells books –
• Game on!: Flash Duel: 5-Minute Fight Game in Your Pocket –