- 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: technology
Linkwad.
Linkwad.
- Unemployed people who use the Internet for a living…use the Internet when they’re unemployed.
- Won’t someone please think of the children! Relatedly, NPR had a good series on the bail bond industry earlier this year.
- Wait, you mean “Top Secret America” didn’t fix the problem?
- Google’s privacy dilemma.
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.
Broken bad.
It’s probably not a good sign that when I read that scientists had managed to cloak things from infrared waves, my first thought was “I bet pot growers would like to know this.”
Linkwad and an update.
- Johannes Mehserle wrote a public letter of apology. TNC (and I) would rather not have to worry about the police.
- World War 2: Worst. War. Ever. (Via @MattYglesias)
- A solar charger that doesn’t suck.
- Double Rainbow Guy interviewed by Fast Company, of all things. Videogum has the man-boob-free highlights: “I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Last night I went to an Indian sweat and I prayed really hard about this. When I shot the video, I was not high at all, I was not having sex, and I was not hiking, as a lot of people assume. This is my land that I bought in 1988. Wait, what was the question?”
Turns out Kill Hannah is opening for the Smashing Pumpkins tonight on the “Bands I should have seen in 1996 tour.” Here’s “Kennedy.”
Updated: Apparently that AIDS breakthrough isn’t a cure after all.