Here are some interesting links I found on Google Reader today.
- This kind of makes me sick. I really really hate throwing anything away if I can help it.
- I love this. It’s kind of hard to read and I don’t think there’s any logical path to follow, but it seems to sum up the general viewpoints of the left and right pretty well.
Here are some interesting links I found on Google Reader today.
- Totally share Amit’s sentiment here. There’s something about true iPhone apps that just work. (iPhone games however, I’m not so much a fan of.)
- Hah. I feel like Improv Everywhere is starting to “Jump the Shark” so to speak. Their one trick pony seems to be musical flash mobs. Which are funny, but still!
Here are some interesting links I found on Google Reader today
- Pfft. I easily do that many hours every day
- Hah.
- Brilliant!
Wonderful anecdote from MeFi:
I…
- This sounded pretty intriguing until I checked out the profile on KickStarter. Seriously, every word is being translated to Emoji. It’s impossible to actually get anything from it.
- I find it ridiculous that they can build a 40km bridge in 4.5 years for $3 billion, yet we’re paying over $6 billion (and counting!) for a 2km replacement that won’t be done for another 5 years.
- That’s it, I’m done going into the ocean.
- Faaaantastic.
- This is pretty awesome. I’ve always thought Dan Brown to be a pretty horrible writer. The stories themselves are gripping, but the way he writes has always bothered me.
- Hahaha! The response from the store is hilarious. Nicely done.
- WHOA! I knew this was Dubrovnik as soon as the video started playing (didn’t notice the name of the title). I wonder if any of my photos were used in this?
- 3-2-1 Fight! I love a good nerd fiasco. But srsly, Apple, WTF?
- Alright, the meme is getting old, but seriously, this is one of the funniest ones I’ve seen.
- This is horrible.
- Hah, two charts that I can live by.
- Lies. You can’t have a hamburger without the hamburger.
Earlier this evening, Sony announced (via Twitter) that they would be at the gdgt event this week and show off a demo of a new game.
Sweet! From there, it kept being retweeted by members of team gdgt, just to see how far we could push it.
Two degrees:
Three degrees:
Four degrees:
Five degrees:
Six degrees (what?!):
Seven degrees (now we’re just getting ridiculous!):
It’s like a good old fashioned game of telephone.
Thanks to the popularity of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, URL shorteners are popping up everywhere. Bit.ly, one of the most popular shortening services, has raised over $2 million dollars in funding!
Despite their popularity, URL shortening sites are by no means a permanent fixture on the internet. A perfect example of this was tr.im, which announced last month that it was shutting down (and taking down all the links users had generated with it). Fortunately, tr.im decided to reverse its decision soon after. However, this shows how potentially vulnerable these services are.
For fun (and peace of mind) – I decided to experiment with creating my own URL shortener for personal purposes! This would allow me to periodically backup my database of links and also serve as a way to bookmark and share content that I find interesting. Plus, I was able to acquire a fun URL as well.
Say hello to dave.ly!
If you see links from it, you know it’s from me and is something I thought was interesting enough to share! Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. I’d like to do some more things in the future as well (i.e., show a list of the most popular links).
This is a fantastic video.
Hah, I *really* enjoy these Dos Equis commercials. I think it's a pretty hilarious ad campaign.
This is the first time I’ve seen this type of packing material! Reusing old cardboard boxes. So awesome!
It’s no secret that I love to use Twitter. As I approach my 3,000th tweet, I used Wordle to compile a list of words that I most frequently use when posting to Twitter. The size of each word is based on the relative frequency that I use it.
This data was generated with TweetStats.
TweetStats also generates some nifty graphs based on a user’s usage.
