Category: Day in Links

These are my fantastically selected links for July 30th, 2012 from 17:22 to 19:07:

• Amtrak Gets on Board With E-Tickets –
• Lawmakers Want to Put an End to Online Ammunition Sales –
• Nike’s New Strobing Glasses Enhance Athletes’ Visual Acuity and Sensory Skills –
• Meanwhile, Yahoo’s VP Of North American Sales Just Quit (YHOO) –
• Zombies Take Over The Streets Of NYC In Protest Of Dish Satellite’s Decision To Drop AMC –
• Gone, Daddy, Gone: Go Daddy CEO is Out –

These are my fantastically selected links for July 30th, 2012 from 13:24 to 16:17:

• 8-Bit Olympics Wins Gold for Old School Awesomeness [VIDEO] –
• Is This What it Takes to Market Vodka? Pitchmen Pose as Window Washers –
• Facebook meets Excel: Microsoft seeks patent on social networking inside spreadsheets –
• A Somber Place for Celebration –
• Instagram surpassed 80 million users: Marketers sharing visual content have growing audiences –
• After Flop, Olympic Diver Tom Daley Outs Hateful Troll on Twitter –
• How the U.S. is Winning the Gold in Buffoonery in London –
• Japan Sends Fish to the International Space Station –
• Arcade Owner Confirms On Reddit: Yes, Claw Machines ARE Rigged –
• Facebook Upgrades Photo Viewing, Sharing –
• Just A Week From Landing, Mars Rover Curiosity Makes Final Course Corrections –
• Images Prove Apollo Mission Flags Still Standing on Moon –
• Lies They Teach in School Book –
• City Council Speaker Quinn Wants Lone NYC Chick-fil-A To GTFO –
• The 2000-2004 North American Drought was the Worst in 800 Years –
• Journalist Suspended From Twitter for Tweeting NBC Email –
• Distracted Driving App Could Lead to Safer Roads –
• Swiss Olympian Expelled From Games for Racist Tweet –

These are my fantastically selected links for July 30th, 2012 from 12:00 to 12:30:

• HP Laptop Accidentally Ships With Testing Video Intact –
• Paul Allen megayacht to aid recovery of British warship’s lost bell from 1941 sinking –
• Geotail Satellite Still Sending Back Crucial Information after 20 Years of Service –
• Civilian Drones to Search for Downed Power Lines During Blackouts –
• Mini Crime Scene Tape –

These are my links for July 29th, 2012 through July 30th, 2012:

• 5 brands that are Instagram superstars –
• Kickstarter Project Is a ‘Smartwatch’ for Your Smartphone –
• Weekly output: broadband, favorite gadgets, competition, Mountain Lion, miniaturization, location awareness, IP addresses –
• ‘Fund Me Maybe’ Is Tech World’s Parody of ‘Call Me Maybe’ [VIDEO] –
• A stream of unconsciousness –
• Not Tracking Social Media ROI is Your Fault –
• Record-Setting Electric Plane Flight Almost Didn’t Make It [VIDEO] –
• Scientists Uncover Giant Prehistoric Sperm Cache –
• Pirate Bay Damages Will Not Trickle Down to Artists –
• Twitter Doghouse Lets You Temporarily Dump Annoying Tweeps –
• Professor Suggests Dumping Algebra From Curriculum Entirely –
• For Wil Wheaton’s 40th Birthday, We Declare it “Non Esse A Verpum!” Day –
• Improving your condiments –

These are my links for July 27th, 2012 through July 28th, 2012:

• Amazon Sales Tax — What it Means for You –
• Cuisinart ICE-45 Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker –
• On Reddit, Rapists Say They’re Sorry –
• Rumor: Apple Potentially Considering Twitter Investment –
• Hallucinating body flowers –
• Bob Costas Led A Moment Of Silence At The Opening Ceremony After The IOC Refused –
• Unanimous is not an option –
• If ‘A Space Odyssey’ Were Remade as a Hollywood Blockbuster –
• Please, NBC and IOC, Learn How to Share the Olympics –
• James Bond and the Queen Parachute Into the Olympics [VIDEO] –
• The Biggest Fanboy In Silicon Valley Just Paid $20K For Lunch With Joss Whedon –

These are my fantastically selected links for July 27th, 2012 from 13:00 to 18:30:

• What The 2012 Olympics Could’ve Brought To NYC –
• No, sources don’t get to approve quotes or drafts –
• Yes, The ‘Happy Birthday To You’ Song Is Copyrighted—And Its Owners Will Earn Royalties Until 2030 –
• South Korean Artist Prepares to Launch His Homemade Satellite Into Orbit –
• ‘Tumblr the Musical’: Coming to a Dashboard Near You [VIDEO] –
• Cray supercomputer tackles age-old dilemma of how to make ice cream more delicious –
• Here Is Every ‘Harry Potter’ Chapter Illustration Compiled Together –
• AMC Cancels ‘The Killing’ –
• Dane Cook Sparks Outrage With Aurora Shooting Jokes [VIDEO] –
• MashTags: Share Your Funniest #90sTweets –
• Jeremy Renner Paid A Stiff Penalty For Popping The Wrong Pill Before A Flight –
• Cat in the Hat is back in first-ever Dr. Seuss iPad coloring app –
• Photo –
• More Tweets Sent Each Day This Year Than Entire 2008 Olympics –
• Google Admits Failing to Delete Street View Data –
• Here’s Where The Joker Was In ‘Dark Knight Rises’ –
• Hubble Sees Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4700 –
• Non-Human Consciousness Exists Say Experts. Now What? –
• NYPD Transit Cop Body Slams Kid in Sunset Park Subway Station –

These are my links for July 26th, 2012 through July 27th, 2012:

• This Original Spider-Man Cover Is Now The Most Expensive Piece Of Comic Art In History –
• Harvey Weinstein Wants To Get Scorcese & Tarantino Together To Discuss Violent Movies –
• Samsung Outsells iPhone, Breaks Shipping Records –
• Epidemiological Algorithm Scans Your Tweets, Can Predict You’ll Get The Flu Next Week –
• Amazon’s Jeff Bezos donates $2.5 million to support same-sex marriage measure –
• Business Insider Is Looking For A Community Intern –
• Smartphone Clocks Could Keep Precise Time By Syncing With Fluorescent Lights’ Flicker –
• CONFIRMED: Pop Music Is Too Loud And All Sounds The Same –
• Interpublic profits drop 2.7% to $99m –
• Guinness appoints Cybercom to digital strategy in Western Europe –
• Only 30 Of The 264 World Leaders On Twitter Do Their Own Tweeting [STUDY] –
• Two kinds of unique –
• Show Your Kids the World WithLittle Passports –
• Photo –
• ‘Advanced Pimpin’ on Facebook Derails Woman’s Legal Case –

These are my fantastically selected links for July 26th, 2012 from 15:49 to 19:02:

• Cybersecurity Bill Inches Closer to Passing –
• Filmmaker Loses $13,238.86 of Gear in Taxi, Driver Brings It Back, People Are Nice –
• RFID company Impinj cancels IPO plans, raises $21 million –
• A Working Assault Rifle Made With a 3-D Printer –
• Twitter Apologizes for Massive Outage –
• Amazon Stock Declines as Operations Investments Increase –
• Facebook Has 955 Million Active Users — Still Shy of a Billion –
• Amazon Beating Google as First Stop for Shoppers [STUDY] –
• Mountain Lion is Steve Jobs? You Be the Judge. –
• Tonight’s Episode of Louie Has Russ & Daughters Cameo –
• Google integrates ‘Actively discussed on Google+’ into SERPs to promote popular content –

These are my fantastically selected links for July 26th, 2012 from 14:27 to 15:30:

• Cops Are Reading Your Skype Chats –
• Google adds indexing data to Webmaster Tools –
• How the FBI sees the psychopath –
• Picture That: Instagram Has 80 Million Users –
• We’re All Genetic Mistakes, But It’s Okay, At Least We Have Backbones –
• The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Multisite –

These are my links for July 25th, 2012 through July 26th, 2012:

• iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit –
• ‘Gangster Squad’ Postponed to 2013 Amid Aftermath of Theater Shooting –
• With A Chemical Injection, Blind Mice Can See –
• New Sheriff to Police Daily-Deal Industry: Good News for Businesses? –
• H.E.S.S. II Telescope Starts Operation and Detects its Very First Images –
• Turn Your Personal Data Into an Interactive Infographic –
• A Year Later, Where’s Justin Timberlake’s Hip New MySpace Makeover? –
• Microsoft Surface Tablet Will Not Cost $1,000 –
• Can Phone Bills Be Replaced by Infographics? [VIDEO] –
• The Zero-Energy Frontier: Racing to Find the Higgs Boson –
• Does Barry Diller Know Something About The Future Of Newsweek That Tina Brown Doesn’t Know? –
• Here’s The Email Tina Brown Fired Off To Combat Rumors Of Newsweek Going Digital –
• Scientists Detected Exoplanetary System with Regularly Aligned Orbits Similar to our Solar System –
• No, Brooklyn Rent is Not More Expensive than Manhattan Rent –
• Preventing HIV/AIDS: A new Therapeutic Frontier –
• NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Review, Moving to Preliminary Design Phase –
• New York Times Now Has More Than Half a Million Digital Subscribers –
• Can Bridgestone’s Airless Tire End the Inner Tube Era? –
• Buckyballs Barred by Bureaucrats, Better Buy Before Ban –
• Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin No. 8 On Singapore Wealth List From ‘Forbes’ –
• Feet on the street –
• Wi-Fi Hotspots Banned From 2012 Olympic Games [VIDEO] –
• Google Amps Up Built-In Calculator, Now Voice-Enabled and Has Buttons –