The Archives (Monthly)

May 2009

• links for 2009-05-31

  
  

  • Failoc-alypse
  • Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff « Tom Scott
  • Sarah Palin Blows Stephen Colbert's "Secret" Trip
  • YouTube – 2009 USPDF Pole Dance Competition Highlights
  • hrFkp.jpg (JPEG Image, 940×1477 pixels)
  • My friend's cat, Waffles, accidently "grabbed a bee" look at the foot! [PIC]
  • First iPhone 3G 2009 Screens Look Very Real To Me [Breaking]
  • North Korean nuclear program sign of 'dark future,' Pentagon chief says

• links for 2009-05-30

  
  

  • The tank man – The Globe and Mail
  • Gates: Nuclear-armed N. Korea not acceptable
  • Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
  • North Korea to Move Intercontinental Missile – NYTimes.com
  • Figures of Speech – Teach a Kid to Argue
  • Surviving the World – Lesson 5 – Fame
  • collision detection: Incredibly weird, inch-wide single-celled creatures discovered rolling across the sea floor
  • SOE Pulls the Plug On The Matrix Online
  • Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time
  • Thailand tourist's lung tissue 'gone' after mysterious death – CNN.com
  • New Comparison Photo of Matte iPhone Enclosure?
  • Apple briefs staff on wireless iPhone movie and TV downloads
  • It's Heeerrre: ‘Pay With Facebook’ Is In The Wild
  • More Twitter TV: MTV Launching Social Media Heavy Show
  • CardStar’s iPhone App Eliminates the Need for Membership Cards
  • Space Monkey Gone to Heaven [Image Cache]
  • Page's Law: Why Your Computer Runs Like Crap After 18 Months [Google]
  • Where You Would Really End Up If You Dug Through the Earth [Maps]

• links for 2009-05-29

  
  

  • AppleInsider | A glimpse at Snow Leopard's more subtle refinements
  • io9 – The Enterprise Versus A Black Hole In New Star Trek Concept Art – Star Trek
  • Possible iPhone 3G 2009 Compared to Shiny iPhone 3G [Rumor]
  • A Week in the Life of an Apple App Store Reviewer [IPhone Apps]
  • Dos Equis Commercial | Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
  • Retrieve Valuables From Your Drain with a Vacuum and Pantyhose [MacGyver Tip]
  • Why our 'amazing' science fiction future fizzled – CNN.com
  • Perfect Storm captain convicted of illegally fishing in Canadian waters
  • Why our science fiction future fizzled
  • Loonie tops 91 cents US, soars over 7 cents in May
  • Palm Pre Review : Boy Genius Report
  • iPhone Doom Classic Progress Report
  • Doom Is Coming For The iPhone [IPhone]
  • Iraqi Teen Solves 300-Year-Old Math Puzzle in Four Months
  • Sprint responds to Verizon CEO’s comments concerning Palm Pre
  • Microsoft Bing gets previewed on video
  • Google Wave: The Full Video From Google IO
  • Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Color-Screened Kindle Is "Multiple Years" Away [Blockquote]
  • Monitoring Internet Usage on Your PC
  • Bing
    i guess we shall see if it's anything
  • Microsoft Shooting For A 300,000 Player Online Game? [Xbox Live]
  • Woz-Bing! Apple Co-Founder a “Big Fan” of Microsoft's New Search Engine
  • Meet Bing, Microsoft's New Search Engine
  • Sergey Brin: Google Wave Will Set A New Benchmark For Interactivity
  • The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia [Geophysical Porn]
  • Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology
  • 16 year old Iraqi Immigrant cracks centuries-old mathematical puzzle

• links for 2009-05-28

  
  

  • The Palm Pre Will Fail
  • The Many Automata of Richard Garriott [Kotakuroboto]
  • The AOL-Time Warner Saga Bookends One Sorry Decade
  • How to rescue the Mars rover by Julian, age 7
  • Steve Jobs Returns to Apple Campus, Sources Say [Apple]
  • S. Korean, U.S. forces raise alert level
  • Google Wave unveiled, new live chat medium for browsers, iPhone and Android
  • Comic suspense: Archie Andrews pops question – CNN.com
  • Verizon Wireless to carry Palm Pre, Storm 2 "in about six months"
  • Canada: Utterly Humorless [Verdict]
  • Palm Pre said to sync up nicely with Apple's iTunes
  • How Do You Avoid Hitting Stars at Warp 5? A Pulsar Positioning System [Space]
  • 'Big Mess of Wires' Homebuilt Processor Is, In Fact, a Big Wonderful Mess of Wires [Image Cache]
  • Video: 45 year old modem used to dial into web, view Wikipedia, correct the entry on Klaus Nomi

• links for 2009-05-27

  
  

  • North Korea threatens military strike against South Korea
  • Powerbrella to Bridge the Gap Between Nerds and Sunlight [Summertime]
  • Slashdot | Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report
  • iTunes May Form an Alliance with Sirius
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  • Attack My Minion! view!
  • Microsoft to Netbooks: Stay Tiny Or Pay the Price – Business Center – PC World
  • HP unveils Mini 1101, Mini 110 XP / Mi editions with optional HD video accelerator
  • Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter
  • The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Live and Work [Living]
  • Ferris Bueller's Ferrari House Now For Sale [Architecture]
  • Cocaine found in Red Bull?
  • Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall
    Not bad but Fall is probably too late.
  • Canadian readies for historic trip to International Space Station
  • The GG's seal adventure
  • Disney Remakes Flight Of The Navigator Because You Don't Have Enough Money To Stop Them [YARM]
  • Tyson's daughter dies after treadmill accident
  • The Best Seats On Broadway [Pic Of The Day]

• links for 2009-05-26

  
  

  • Famed U.S. fishing captain says she was in Canadian waters by accident
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen – cartoon Recombinant Records
  • Google Reader (233)
  • For Your Consideration: Nathan Fillion As The Green Lantern [Green Lantern]
  • When the Future Expires – A Timeline [Triviagasm]
  • Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps
  • The Evolution of House Cats: Scientific American
  • Texting May Be Taking a Toll
  • Microsoft to debut Bing search engine alongside $80 million ad campaign
  • Alberta scientists track northern lights to spot in space
  • See Your Kindle Notes and Highlights From Your Browser [Kindle]
  • iPhone Getting Direct iTunes TV and Movie Downloads [Unconfirmed]
  • BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish
  • i hate the internet.
  • My sister's family was putting flags on veteran's graves yesterday, and she saw this. [pic] : pics

• links for 2009-05-25

  
  

  • Gallery: 23 photos of soldiers looking completely badass
  • What's Cooking for Apple WWDC '09 [Wwdc09]
  • Life Size Katamari » NYC Resistor » Electronics, Hacking, Classes, and Workspace.
  • Transforminators (Transformers / Terminator Mashup) | Dixi World
  • YouTube – The Internet in 1969
  • Science of orgasm video
  • Welcome Home, Atlantis
  • Karaoke Night “Don’t Stop Your Screaming”
  • Bridge jumper in China gets a “helping hand”
  • Walk, bike or sit in Times Square, Herald Square. You won’t get run over!
  • Kiwis who took the money and ran located through Facebook update
  • Don't Panic, It's Towel Day!
  • North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test
  • 5 iPhone Photography Apps to make your Shots Spectacular

• links for 2009-05-22

  
  

  • First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons [Space]
  • It's Made of 100% Cotton; Its Sales Are 99% Ironic – washingtonpost.com
  • I, Cringely » Blog Archive » WAAS Up? – Cringely on technology
  • How Did Neanderthals Die? We Ate Them – Science & Health News Briefs | Newser
  • Internet followers of eagle cam watch helplessly as eaglet dies in B.C. nest
  • Little Palm Pre Hands on Photos
  • Pirate Bay Trial Fiasco Continues: Second Judge Removed for Bias
  • 10 Star Trek Movie Moments That Make Us Proud to Be Trekkies
  • Original Cast Onboard For Ghostbusters 3
  • myfoxatlanta.com | Top 50 Text Acronyms Parents Should Know 052009
  • More next-gen iPhone whispers: video recording, faster CPU, July release?

• links for 2009-05-21

  
  

  • Seinfeld coming to Ottawa – The Globe and Mail
  • What We Know About The Apple Tablet So Far
  • New Zealand couple flee after finding £4m in their bank account | World news | The Guardian
  • Video: Brief History of Weed
  • Analyst: An Apple tablet is coming to shake up netbook market
  • Apple to answer netbook market with $500-$700 tablet – report
  • Video: World's most awesome Steadicam operator performs the flying Segway dismount
  • Google Chrome: Another 30 Percent Faster?
  • io9 – Actual V Trailer Descends Upon The Earth – V
  • Terminator Salvation's Terrible Shortfall [Review]
  • J.J. Abrams: The Best Star Trek Easter Eggs Were All In Your Mind [Star Trek]
  • The Jewish Origins of Spock’s Vulcan Salute on Star Trek
  • DSLR Remote Controls Canons Wirelessly, With Live View [Software]
  • Megan Fox
  • World's Most Interesting Bridges [PICS] view!
  • The Voice of Mickey Mouse Passes Away
  • A Complete History Of 3D Graphics Cards [PC]
  • Spiritual Guidance: Tools to evaluate a Discipline Priest
  • Gear of War photo gallery

• links for 2009-05-20

  
  

  • Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars [Man Vs Machine]
  • "It's Possible to Receive a Small and Quick Electrical Shock From Your Earbuds While Listening to iPod" [Overheard]
    Constantly
  • The Superficial – Kate Gosselin's Magical Marriage Contract
  • The Anti-Alien Bigotry Begins, In District 9's First Trailer
  • Transformer USB Drive… Ravage
    Awesome. Want.
  • Users find Apple’s iPhone and iPod shocking, literally
  • Canadian scientists create powerful new lithium battery material
  • Hundreds of special forces soldiers to get pay raise
  • Microsoft Expected to Debut New Kumo Search at D: All Things Digital
  • What Larry Page thinks about Twitter
  • Tesla Worth More Than Half A Billion Dollars After Daimler Investment
  • Hubble's final servicing mission – The Big Picture – Boston.com
  • GPS system ‘close to breakdown’
  • Next-Gen iPhone Specs, Launch Date Revealed?

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