- 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.
Tag: 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.
- For $250, ColorWare will prettify your iPhone 4, and might fix that “death grip” problem (which, in turn, might not be such a problem after all. Even if it is, it also might be (but probably not) getting fixed on the DL).
- The “Son of Sam” killer’s image gets burnished while he’s in jail. I’ve always loved the phrasing of the “Hello from the gutters of New York” Breslin letter, regardless of authenticity.
- Who do you write like? Based on this post, I write like Stephen King. My mom is apparently a H.P. Lovecraft fan.
- The FCC’s “indecency rules” are bullshit, says the Court of Appeals. Crappy-drawers whiners including the Parents Television Council and Concerned Women for America are appealing.
- Fuck what you heard, gang nicknames are awesome. I would love it if people called me “Bloody Batman.” (Via @Maryvale)