- Is that a Nexus One supercomputer app? Oh yes, it is. Via @TimOReilly
- Peak helium, previously referenced by a comic about talking dinosaurs!
- The Arcade Fire’s Google Chrome experiment.
- Gmail’s new “priority inbox” looks kind of cool. Wonder if it’ll do as well as the 800 filters I currently have set up.
Category: nerdiness
Linkwad.
Linkwad.
- The ACLU starts pushing for gun rights. No word on who Fox News will use as a liberal boogeyman now (via Radley Balko).
- I don’t really understand much except the first sentence.
- No one makes phone calls anymore.
- The Arcade Fire’s pretty-great new album, The Suburbs, is streaming on NPR.
- The Mythbusters get interviewed.
Linkwad (updated).
- Make your own Android apps (Via Engadget).
- Lawsuit over Apple’s AT&T lock-in, App Store moves forward.
- Harry Reid and Sharron Angle’s fair-use fight.
- Radley Balko interviewed about police-recording arrests.
- Update: YouTube now supports 4096p video.
Linkwad.
- Comic Sans Dan Gilbert hates LeBron James (who has just replaced Kobe Bryant in the public’s mind as “Biggest Figurative NBA Dick”).
- Drowning doesn’t look like drowning (via @Maryvale).
- Android gains market share, thanks entirely to awesome circuit board live wallpapers (probably).
- Catholic Church vacillates on welcoming drug addicts and drug dealers, still pretty much against gay dudes. (via Andrew Sullivan)
- Updated: Nope. A potential AIDS research breakthrough which might also work against the flu (via AS, again).
Not sad about this.
“[O]ne thing we don’t have in the oceans today — a macropredator, a hypercarnivorous whale.”