Author: Nathan Burgess (PRCog)

These are my fantastically selected links for August 8th, 2012 from 15:05 to 19:15:

• Guy Orders TV From Amazon, Receives Very Large Gun Instead –
• Ten Amazing Photos From Mars Rover Curiosity’s Landing –
• Afraid Of Flying? Don’t Follow This Twitter Handle! –
• Dr. Lucky’s Marxist Burlesque Extravaganza –
• Disney Wants To Turn Your Child Into A Creepy Doll –
• The Internet Archive Now Includes Thousands of Torrents –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 8th, 2012 from 10:59 to 15:00:

• City to Exhume Dozens of Unidentified Bodies –
• This Infographic Shows Why Google+ Is a Ghost Town –
• Watch Police Raid Kim Dotcom’s House –
• Only 9% of Wikipedia Editors Are Women [INFOGRAPHIC] –
• A Remake Of The Original ‘Saw’ Film Might Be In The Works At Lionsgate –
• Billboards and TVs Detect Your Face: Advertisers Salivate –
• New York Times Co. in Talks to Sell About.com –
• Android Was in 68.1% of Smartphones Shipped in Q2 –
• Unusually High Frequency of Heatwaves Indicates Human Influence on Global Warming –
• 7 Space Simulators That Let You Explore the Universe –
• 40% of Top Brands Are on Instagram [REPORT] –
• Here’s The Real Reason News Corp Wants An Hispanic Channel (NWS) –
• Romney Campaign Uses Twitter Searches to Advertise VP App –
• Conan O’Brien Spoofs Apple, Samsung Patent Trial –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 8th, 2012 from 07:00 to 10:34:

• HiRISE Captures Image of Curiosity and its Landing Components on Mars –
• Ill Doctrine: NBC’s Awesomely Terrible Olympics –
• What Our Eyes Say About Our Sexual Preferences –
• Would You Wear an Internet-Connected T-Shirt? –
• Princess Michael Of Kent Launches Desperate Search For Her Cat –
• Hackers Force Apple, Amazon to Change Security Policy –
• Wayback Machine: 10 Movies We’re Dreading From an Emboldened Disney-Owned Marvel –

These are my links for August 7th, 2012 through August 8th, 2012:

• Nivea drops Rihanna for being too raunchy –
• 32-Year Study Shows how Geeky Kids Become Happy Adults –
• What's your average speed? –
• Kickstart Your Own Space Program With Firefly, A Flexible Mission Control Board –
• Sensational Interactive Panorama Feels Like You Landed on Mars –
• Analogies, metaphors and your problem –
• New York Police Subpoena Twitter to Identify Potential Aurora Shooting Copycat –
• New Tool Enables Wireless Tethered Photography –
• Mars Landing Broadcast on Ustream Outperforms Cable TV –
• Square Partners With Starbucks To Process All Credit, Debit Card Transactions –
• New iPhone: iOS 6 Hints at 9-Pin Dock Connector, Larger Screen –
• Inside The Elite $8 Billion Group That Runs The Olympics –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 7th, 2012 from 15:08 to 20:16:

• Court orders Oracle, Google to reveal which news sources they’ve paid for coverage –
• Boeing shows off Unmanned Little Bird autonomous copter –
• Report says iPad users are more affluent than Kindle folk –
• Google’s Driverless Car Is Now Safer Than the Average Driver –
• Jennifer Lawrence Negotiating $10M Paycheck For ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel –
• GameKlip: Android meets PS3 with new video game accessory from UW student –
• Olympics FYI: Why Is Cannabis Considered a Performance-Enhancing Drug? –
• Well, The New Newsweek Cover Certainly Looks Familiar… –
• What’s So Great About the Pebble Smartphone Watch? –
• NASA Satellite Photo Shows Aftermath of Mars Rover Curiosity’s Landing –
• Sexism affects robots –
• Startup Gives Merchants Free Tablet to Use Its App –
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• Use Your Body’s Electrical Field To Uniquely Identify Yourself –
• Comedy Central Cutting Theater Shooting Joke From Roseanne Roast –
• ‘Stalker’ aircraft makes first laser-powered outdoor flights –
• Watch How Awesome It Is to Play Lazer Tag on iPhone [VIDEO] –
• Video: Software That Can Tell What City It’s In By Looking At The Architecture –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 7th, 2012 from 11:17 to 14:53:

• FIRST LOOK: Daniel Day-Lewis As Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ –
• Online Chatter About Gun Control Quiets After Shootings –
• Ouch! Here’s the Worst Olympic Dive of All Time –
• How This Woman Became ‘Digital Royalty’ –
• Awesome Discontinued Olympic Events –
• Neiman Marcus Spotlights Jewelry with Shoppable Music Video –
• Website of the Month: CollabFinder –
• Facebook to Judge: A Like Is Free Speech [UPDATED] –
• 6 Ways Nonprofits Attract Top Tech Talent –
• Police to Twitter: Hand Over Data of Threatening User –
• Brutal Samsung Memo Admitted Into Evidence, Basically Acknowledges Superiority of iPhone –
• Cloned Horses Given Okay For Olympics – A New Era Of Cloned Competition? –
• Tumblr Launches Hub for Original Content –
• How to Take Photographs 90 Feet Below Manhattan –
• Report: Windows 8 Prevents Booting Straight to Desktop –
• MSG-3 Weather Satellite Captures its First Image of Earth –
• Google Chrome claims one-third of global browser market, SEO critical for reaching these users –
• This is the First Color Image From NASA’s Curiosity Rover –
• Low Oxygen Levels Trigger the Formation of Plant Sex Cells –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 7th, 2012 from 07:11 to 10:46:

• NBC Honcho Speaks Out Against Sharon Osbourne’s Discrimination Accusation—Here’s Today’s Buzz –
• Obama Made Everyone Cringe With His Gushing Praise Of Aaron Sorkin –
• Olympic Judges Shocked by Curiosity Landing on Mars –
• Skillshare Goes Global, Launching Hybrid Online-Offline Classes –
• Sex Toys! Get Your Sex Toys! –
• Microsoft Reveals Windows 8 Packaging [PIC] –

These are my links for August 6th, 2012 through August 7th, 2012:

• Google Ventures joins in DocuSign’s huge $55.7M financing round –
• Take a Look at Andy Warhol Cookbook Illustrations From 1961 –
• Men Are More Likely to Back Up Their Files Than Women [STUDY] –
• Curiosity Rover Tweets Otherworldly Footage of Descent to Mars [VIDEO] –
• MS-DOS wasn’t stolen, new forensic analysis concludes –
• Caffeinated “Black Drink” Points to Pre-Colombian Trade Network, Jitters –
• New Images Show Mars Rover Curiosity’s New Home in Gale Crater, and Its Mountain Destination –
• Farewell, Google Listen: You deserved better than this –
• RIP YouTube iPhone App, 2007-2012 — Why You Won’t Be Missed –
• .@Mention Pro Tip: How To Let Everyone See What You’ve Replied –
• Flexible Battery Could Lead to Gadgets That Fold Up [VIDEO] –
• Site Confirms You Knew Social Platforms Before They Were Cool –
• 18 Celebrities And Their Historical Doppelgangers –
• Guitarist Slash Rolls Out Cutting-Edge Apps for Music Fans –
• Should Olympic Officials Treat Weed As a Performance Enhancing Drug? –
• Dear NASA: Nice work landing on Mars — maybe now you should dump Windows XP? –
• Megapixels: Space Shuttle Enterprise Gets Grabbed By a Crane –
• Google rolls out icons to highlight sites optimized for mobile users –
• NY Times Photographer Arrested, Beaten For Photographing Arrest –
• Acer CEO warns Microsoft to ‘think twice’ about Surface –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 6th, 2012 from 12:30 to 16:48:

• Financial Crisis Survival Kit –
• Android-Based Game Console Closing Out Record-Breaking Kickstarter Campaign –
• Watching Curiosity’s Mars Landing Live on a 53-Foot Screen in Times Square –
• YouTube App Will Not be Included in iOS 6 –
• Teaser Trailer For Bin Laden Film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Debuts –
• Here’s How the President Sends His Tweets [VIDEO] –
• See Why Fire Tennis Should Be an Olympic Sport [VIDEO] –
• Fact or Fiction: MIT Grad Student Saved Apollo 13 –
• Escape to New York Will Be Rife With Delays for Red-Eyed Drivers Using the Lincoln –
• People Are Freaking Out After A Secret Screening Of Scientology Inspired ‘The Master’ –
• Vegans Have Better Sex, Says Totally Reputable Singing Vegan Lady –
• Loch Ness Monster Found, Claims Lifelong Loch Ness Monster Hunter and Tour Guide –
• Startup Spotlight: Ex-Boeing engineer matches serious gamers with Teamfind –
• New Image Shows Mars Rover Curiosity Parachuting Toward Perfect Landing –
• Oreo’s Facebook Salute to the Mars Landing Will Make You Hungry –
• Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First High-Resolution Photo –
• AT&T sets Aug. 23 launch for new shared data plans –
• See Google’s Beautiful Interactive Visualization of Global Gun Trade –
• Amazon plans textbook rentals as cheaper option for students –
• NASA Logo –
• HP Continues to Flaunt Unannounced Tablet in Ads –

These are my fantastically selected links for August 6th, 2012 from 07:00 to 12:28:

• Movie Ticket Prices Reach An All-Time High –
• Meet The Atari Exec Who Wants To Bring Arcade Classics Like Centipede To Your Phone –
• The Z Machine Generates Pressures so Intense That It Can Melt Diamonds –
• Gabby Douglas Is the ‘Most-Watched’ Olympian –
• Video: Make Your Houseplant a Touchscreen? Or Theremin? What Is Going On Here –
• New leader says Bluetooth has ‘just scratched the surface’ –
• Incredible Collages Made Solely From Metrocards –
• Mars Curiosity Beams First High-Res Pic –
• Steve Jobs Dreamt of Building an iCar –
• Best Buy Founder Offers to Buy Business Back –
• Smartphone users spending more time accessing blogs, social content as market continues growth –
• Camera Lost for Three Years Returned to Brooklyn Owner –
• Take A Look At This Rare ‘Metropolis’ Film Program From 1927 –
• Samsung Will Give You Up to $300 for Your Old Smartphone –
• Hundreds Saw Curiosity Rover Land On Mars…From Times Square –
• If Your Content Doesn’t Excite You, It’s Time To Rethink –
• Google Ditches Apps for Teams and 3 Other Products –
• What Happened To Facebook Questions App? –
• Should You Curate Content? The Essentials Every Content Marketer Needs to Consider –