- 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: toys
Linkwad.
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.
Park place.
Google just released Open Spot, an Android app (public beta, natch) that tells you where there are open parking spots.
Open Spot works by letting people who are leaving parking spots share their spots with people who are searching for parking.
Start helping others find parking, and together we’ll all save time, save gas, and reduce pollution. Like to keep score? The more open spots you mark, the more parking ‘karma points’ you’ll get.
It’s a cool idea, and could be useful if enough people around you use it. Of course, if you know the area well, you probably already know where to park, meaning the app will probably end up mostly helping suburbanites and out-of-towners find city parking. Also, if you really wanted to save gas and reduce pollution, you wouldn’t be driving.
Via Gizmodo.
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).