Month: January 2013

These are my links for January 6th, 2013 through January 7th, 2013:

• Did Kanye’s Creative Director Mark Up a Rugby Flannel By $470? –
• 3 Cosmic Events That Will Spark Doomsday Rumors –
• Starbucks In Japan To Carry Mugs With Nazi-Like Insignia –
• Rage Comics Are Dying a Slow, Painful Death –
• Reeddit Offers a Fresh Face for Reddit –
• Polaroid Unveils First Android Camera With Removable Lens –
• Twin Peaks Season 3 “Rumors” May Have Started Something Real –
• Social media stays for longer than one night in hotel industry –
• Giant Squid Footage is Actually of a Giant Squid, And It’s Apparently Silver –
• MetroPCS subscribers fall, with T-Mobile deal pending –
• Startup Offers Device for Tracking Lost Luggage –
• Disney’s Latest “Magic”: Digitally Stalking You Through its Parks –
• Researchers Find Biological Indicator Of Being A Rude Loudmouth –
• AP Sharing Sponsored Tweets And Panicking Reporters –
• Soon, Your Commute May Be Crowded With Kiddies –
• Melbourne Airport Parking Lot Officially Just Taken Over By Kangaroos Now –
• PBS’ ‘Antiques Roadshow’ To Announce Season 18 Summer Tour On Facebook Page –
• Instagram Users Reporting Profiles Directed To Facebook-Hosted Page –
• Never text and drive again: Ford inks deal with Glympse for hands-free location sharing –
• Hey You Guys! Here’s a Compilation of Adorable Sloth Videos –
• Damning Report Claims Deplorable Conditions At Animal Care & Control –
• $10B Foreclosure Settlement For Banks –
• Photos: What A $1.7 Million Bluefin Tuna Looks Like –
• Coder Cracks Mega Man 2‘s Password System, Makes 1988 Less Difficult –

These are my links for January 5th, 2013 through January 6th, 2013:

• Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth –
• Michael Keaton Talks Batman, Beetlejuice, and the New Robocop on WTF with Marc Maron Podcast –
• Stamford Gun Show Goes On In Spite Of Proximity To Newtown Massacre –
• Delicious Mistake: Australian Jewel Thieves Tunnel Into Wrong Building, Get KFC Instead of Diamonds –
• Still Got It: Brunch At Cafe Mogador –
• This startup just boosted salaries 2 percent to offset the payroll tax hike –
• Michael Cronan, the man behind the Kindle and TiVo names, dies at the age of 61 –
• Amazon Deal of the Day: 52% Off The Tim Burton Collection (7 Movies) [Blu-ray] – $28.99 + Free Shipping –
• HD Footage of the Lunar Rover on the Moon [Video] –
• Could Apple’s Rumored iWatch Be an iPhone Killer? –
• Wayback Machine: 100 Quotations Every Geek Should Know –
• White House Weighs Broad Gun Control –
• Oracle Acquires Eloqua: Will Content Marketing Be Impacted? –
• This Week On Twitter: Twitter’s Top City, 100 Amazing Social Media Facts, 14 Twitter Statistics –
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• Packing and planning for CES –
• For Sale or Lease: Space-Shuttle Facilities, Contact NASA –
• Library of Congress Has Now Archived 170 Billion Tweets –

These are my fantastically selected links for January 5th, 2013 from 01:04 to 19:55:

• ‘Hashtag’ Declared 2012′s Word of the Year –
• How one small sentence kicked up a storm of climate controversy –
• Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Martian ‘Flower’ and Snake-Like Rock –
• Out on a limb –
• 7 Movies With Backstage Antics That Inspired Other Films –

These are my fantastically selected links for January 4th, 2013 from 18:20 to 21:27:

• Father of the Internet on Tech: ‘It Should Just Work’ –
• AD OF THE DAY: Pixar’s Brilliant ‘Monsters University’ College Recruitment Video –
• Engineer Petitions White House for Real-Life Starship Enterprise –
• Yeah! Shake It, Baby: Feathered Dinosaurs Shook Tail Feathers in Courtship Rituals –
• Tweenchronic Poised to Be New Rebecca Black Times Two –
• This is Why You Can’t Access Google Maps on Windows Phone –

These are my links for January 3rd, 2013 through January 4th, 2013:

• The Vatican Says “No” to Plastic –
• No, You Can’t Drunkenly Attack People in the Street and Call It “Performance Art” –
• Follow leaders who take care of brands’ social media reputations –
• Customer loyalty develops from quality custom content –
• The 10 Most Important Numbers in the World –
• Lonely Americans turn to Facebook –
• Here Are The Best-Loved Businesses On Twitter In 2012 –
• The Beauty of Code With Bruce Sterling –
• NYPD Orders Commander to Shutter “Release Alerts” Twitter Feed –
• How Can Marketers Use Facebook’s Poke App For Advertising? –
• German State Turns Up Heat Vs. Facebook On Real Names Issue –
• Facebook Pages Manager Launches On Android In Select Countries –
• 10 Essential Apps To Enhance Your Mobile Twitter Experience –
• PastBook Helps Facebook, Instagram Users Create 2012 Yearbooks –
• Facebook Begins Emailing Users Who Were Part Of Sponsored Stories Class Action –
• 100 Amazing Social Media Statistics, Facts And Figures [INFOGRAPHIC] –
• Al Jazeera Merger Struggling –

These are my fantastically selected links for January 3rd, 2013 from 08:39 to 21:55:

• Cats Get Their Own Social Network –
• Taco Bell Comes up With Another Epic Social Media Win –
• Blogger Makes $333,000 Online in One Day –
• Watch Italian Soccer Teams Quit Mid-Match After Racist Chants –
• Deep Space Nine Turns 20 Today and You Should Watch It Tonight –
• This Is What the OUYA Kickstarter Console Looks Like –
• Steve Jobs Film Coming in April –
• Only 3 of the 79 New Congress Members Don’t Have Twitter Accounts –
• Pebble Kickstarter Watch Will Be At CES –
• 2-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite From Mars Found in Morocco –
• Teens Give Parents Drugged Milkshakes for More Internet Time –
• Google, Samsung dominate mobile market share from September to November –
• New Bill Could Block Every Twitter Parody We Love –
• Judge Stopped From Ordering User to Alter Yelp Review –
• Now for sale at Starbucks: Square mobile card readers –
• GameStick Seeks to Become Most Portable Gaming System Ever –
• Here’s How Obama’s Autopen Works –
• Riker Ipsum Is Now a Thing, All Other Random Text Generators Officially Irrelevant –
• Starbucks Wants To Sell You A $1 Reusable Cup For Your Morning Coffee –
• NASA Reportedly Considering Proposal To Give The Moon A Smaller Moon Of Its Own –

These are my fantastically selected links for January 2nd, 2013 from 13:30 to 18:45:

• Blood of French King Louis XVI Found in Gourd Container, Confirms Gourds Are Useful –
• Parting Shot –
• That Time the FBI Threatened an Artist Interested in Military Drones –
• Zipcar Timeline: From Business Idea to IPO to $500 Million Buyout –
• Rumor alert: Is Apple looking to buy mobile traffic app Waze? –
• A New Happy Birthday –
• A lunar landing next for Facebook? It’s already taken over the world –
• Is David Lynch Bringing Back Twin Peaks? –
• Israel’s Secret Weed Lab May Have the Strongest Bud in the World –
• What Marketers Need To Know About Facebook Nearby –
• Ubuntu’s Ominous Countdown Reveals Ubuntu Phone and Mobile OS –
• Here’s the “Controversial” Set That Got DJ Shadow Booted From a Miami Nightclub –

These are my links for January 1st, 2013 through January 2nd, 2013:

• Facebook Photos Come To Life At Polaroid Fotobar Stores –
• Guess What The World’s Most Active Twitter City Is? –
• Carolyn Everson Discusses Facebook’s Efforts To Stamp Out Fake Profiles, Accounts –
• Facebook Is Top Social Network In 127 Countries –
• Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr – Are Your Photos Getting Shared? [INFOGRAPHIC] –
• LED Lights May Help Prevent Astronaut Insomnia Aboard the ISS –

These are my links for December 31st, 2012 through January 1st, 2013:

• Swarm Robots Called ‘Droplets’ The Size Of A Golf Ball –
• Happy Birthday, Internet! The Web We Know Today was Born 30 Years Ago –
• Beautiful New Film Follows The 40-Year-Search For The Monarch Butterfly’s Winter Home –
• WordPress Blogs at Risk Due to Plug-In Flaw –
• Fiscal-Cliff Deal Reached –
• Fiscal-Cliff Deal Reached –
• Fiscal-Cliff Deal Reached –