The Archives (Monthly)

November 2009

• links for 2009-11-30

  
  

  • Paul Greengrass Quits the Bourne Franchise | Pajiba – Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
  • MAD Architects Call Their Project an "Urban Forest"
  • Open Letter to Hollywood: Stop Ruining Our Childhood Memories!
  • The CIA magic book
  • Drowned cities: Myths and secrets of the deep
  • The End Of The CrunchPad
  • The New TweetDeck Goes List Crazy And Adds Maps To GeoTweets
  • How I got 6000 RSS subscribers in 12 months
  • Twitter Declared Most Popular English Word of 2009
  • Translate Any Web Text on the Fly with a Bookmarklet [Bookmarklet]
  • Google Chrome for Mac Beta's Gonna Be Missing a Lot of Stuff [Chrome]
  • Kindle Outsells Every Other Product On Amazon (And What This Really Means) [Kindle]
  • Large Hadron Collider breaks energy record, still won't power a toaster
  • Rocketfish WirelessHD Adapter snips an HDMI cord for $600
  • Dave Winer Wants a Programmable Twitter Client
  • Mini Microbe Portraits From the Micropolitan Museum
  • Nine Years After Mike Huckabee Freed Him, Man is Wanted in Cop Killings [Sad]
  • Saddam Returns! With Mysterious Satellite TV Channel that Alternately Terrorizes and Bores [Back From The Dead]
  • Twitter Doesn’t Track The Zeitgeist. Only 2 Percent Of Tweets Overlap With Search Trends.
  • The Ultimate Gift for the iPhone Developer in Your Life: Notepods
  • Brad Pitt's Got 99 Problems, and an Angelina's One: Smokin' Weed and Psycho Women [Marital Discourse]
  • Does Tiger Woods Really Think He Can Wait This One Out? [Operation: Love Tap]
  • Apple iPhone makes official debut in South Korea
  • Only 8 Bugs Stand In The Way Of Chrome For Mac Beta
  • Calling Twitter’s Bluff
  • Tweetie 2.1 For iPhone Now LIVE in the App Store
  • Invisible Bluetooth Headset Is One Eardrum Away From Touching Your Brain [Bluetooth Headsets]
  • Simon Page's Throwback International Year of Astronomy Posters
  • 40 Unseen Moments From Your Favorite Movies [Deleted Scenes]
  • The OverAchiever: The Keymaster
  • Get Built-In Bookcases Inexpensively by Using Pre-Made Parts [DIY]

• links for 2009-11-29

  
  

  • Get Built-In Bookcases Inexpensively by Using Pre-Made Parts [DIY]
  • Top 10 movie flops of the decade (Reuters) – Yahoo! Movies
  • An Ancient Fortress on the Island – TutzTutz.com
  • Men's skincare and shaving
  • Yo Gabba Gabba video on yubby – The Jack Black Jig
  • How I Hire Programmers (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
  • Johann Hari: Dubai Has Always Been Bankrupt — Morally and Environmentally
  • UK taxpayers are funding the destruction of my homeland | Kevin Smith
  • Scientists Claim Victory For Mother's Milk [Mothers Milk]
  • 5 Things Parents Should Know about Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Problems of Brad Pitt: Pretty Lower Ninth Public Housing Pissing People Off? [Volunteerism]
  • RSS of BitTorrent, Programmable Twitter client

• links for 2009-11-28

  
  

  • imgur: the simple image host
    Rainbow Shirts
  • Yesterday's Robots Find New Life In Art [Robots]
  • New Moon in a Minute / Magma
  • YouTube - Fifth Gear Loop the Loop
  • Debtors' prison
  • Bomb suspected cause of Russian train derailment
  • It’s Not Easy Being Popular. 77 Percent Of Facebook Fan Pages Have Under 1,000 Fans
  • How To Paint Laminate Furniture [DIY]
  • Bangladesh ferry capsizes at dock; 37 dead – Yahoo! News
  • Nutty Putty Cave to be closed for good after trapped caver's death | csmonitor.com
  • Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered – Yahoo! News
  • Boing Boing Gift Guide 2009: nonfiction! (part 4/6) – Boing Boing
  • Review: Harry Potter Spells iPhone App Is Magical, If Imperfect
  • Tiger Woods: Injuries Caused by Wife, Not SUV | TMZ.com
  • THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE
  • Family Review of Settlers of Catan
  • 5 Lessons We Hope RTD's Learned From His Past Doctor Who Epics [Doctor Who]
  • What Users Like/Dislike About Google Wave [DATA]
  • Microsoft Posts Unaired Family Guy Windows 7 Clips [VIDEO]
  • Tiger Woods' Wife Kicks Ass [Breaking]
  • Tiger Woods "Seriously Injured" in Car Accident [Breaking]

• links for 2009-11-27

  
  

  • Bearded Superheroes
  • Astronauts Sneak Turkey Into the Space Station [Space]
  • City of Gold
  • Gift Guide for Design Lovers [Gift Guide]
  • Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age [Concept Art]
  • Cellphones may replace credit cards
  • 10 Alternatives To Mininova
  • Hacked emails denying climate change are skewed: scientists
  • How to Fix Your Relatives' Terrible Computer [Tech Support]

• links for 2009-11-26

  
  

  • Meteor explodes in blaze of colour | World News | News.com.au
  • Bacteria from Mars found inside ancient meteorite – Telegraph
  • Spring/Summer 2010: Mociun (Womens)
  • CIA Manual Thought Lost In 1973 Available On Amazon
  • 61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For [Downloads]
  • Astronauts Celebrate Thanksgiving in Space on Two Spaceships
  • Sleep success: How to make ZZZs = memory
  • Turn Your Car Into Pac-Man [IPhone]
  • Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough – The Globe and Mail
  • Dubai Has No More Money [Whoops]
  • Website Releases 573,000 Sad, Frightened and Banal Text Messages from 9/11 [History]
  • Rogers Gives Canadians Their ‘TV Everywhere’ With New VOD Service | paidContent
  • Rogers on Demand online launches next week : Digital Home
  • The World According to Americans
  • Wikileaks: “We will Release over Half a Million 9/11 Intercepts”
  • Facebook Stock Going Public?
  • The Matrix's Bullet-Dodging Scene, Faithfully Recreated in Lego [Lego Matrix]
  • Russia to add loonie to reserves: report
  • Atlantic Canadians most confident winter drivers: poll
  • Make Any Pair of Gloves Work with a Touchscreen [DIY]
  • Biggest Loser : Basically Killing Fat People for Your Amusement [Fitness]
  • Augmented Reality Goofiness Thanks to Avatar and Coke [Augmented Reality]
  • How to Try the New Google Search [Google]

• links for 2009-11-25

  
  

  • Read Kirk's Unseen Appearance in Star Trek For Yourself [Star Trek]
  • California City
  • Kim Stanley Robinson Takes Us Back Out Into The Solar System, 300 Years From Now [Kim Stanley Robinson]
  • Of Rock Tombs, Cave Temples, and the Architecture of Ancient India
  • How the H1N1 vaccine is made
  • Handbrake 0.9.4 released, includes 64-bit support
  • eBay: Our Mobile Users Will Spend More Than $500 Million On Goods This Year
  • Michelle Obama Picture in Google Image Results Creates Controversy
  • TELUS granted injunction over Rogers ads
  • Google Search's New Interface Being Tested Now [Rumors]
  • Chrome OS like lightning from a USB key: we could get used to this
  • The Perfect Solution for Leg Room in Airplanes [Cartoon]
  • Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet
  • Gmail Supports Attachments Even When You Are Not Attached To The Internet
  • Toronto police use Taser on wayward deer
  • Masked gunmen flee with Hamilton prisoner
  • Tween Protests Anomie of Modern Urban Life [Amazing]
  • Survey: Droid advertising scaring men right into dutiful brand loyalty
  • National Geographic Offers Stunning Natural Wallpaper [Wallpaper]
  • Gmail Now Lets You Add and Send Attachments Offline [Gmail Tip]
  • Google Reader Adds Favicon Support [Updates]
  • Jerry Seinfeld Upgrades Classic Mac with iMac [Apple]
  • What if the Declaration of Independence Was Created in Google Wave? [Google Wave]
  • iPhone Translation App Speaks Three Languages With Your Mouth [IPhone Apps]
  • Large Hadron Collider reboots, makes first protonic bang!
  • Captain Piccard's Solar Impulse starts runway testing
  • Magazine publishers said to be 'very close' to digital distribution deal
  • Kindle firmware update promises 85 percent battery boost, native PDF reader
  • Google Plans to Digitize Artifacts at Iraq's National Museum

• links for 2009-11-24

  
  

  • Submerged is the New Black: 'Aqualta' Envisions Flooded Cities
  • In pictures: Bizarre deep-sea creatures revealed
  • Google Maps Pornography : Google Can't Keep Up
  • What’s In A Brand? AOL Becomes “Aol.”
  • First Proton Collisions in the LHC
  • McDonald's Logo To Go "Green" In Europe
  • Facebook Linked to Middle School Redhead Beating [Crime]
  • Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut
  • Microsoft and News Corp.'s Deal With the Devil – Reviews by PC Magazine
  • We're Getting A Bit Winded From SGU's Space Aerobics [SGU Recap]
  • Resident Evil Movie Producer Wants Bigger Success, Unlike Saw [Hollywood]
  • LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting
  • World of Warcraft Turns 5: How Blizzard Built A Nation [World Of Warcraft]
  • CBC News – Toronto – Mother lost grip in child's airport fall: police
  • The Last Days of Desktop: Chrome Welcomes Third Party Extensions
  • Astronaut Self-Portrait [Image Cache]
  • The Internet Weighs About 1,098,868,920,000 Pounds [Internet]
  • Paul McCartney Doesn't Understand the Internet [Music]
  • Wikipedia's Brain Drain [Data]
  • Your Phone at 55 Degrees Below Zero [Cellphones]
  • The Pop-Up Cardboard Office [Office]
  • The iPhone Already Has Multitasking, And It's Awesome [Btw]

• links for 2009-11-23

  
  

  • Giving or getting a Mac for the holidays? 10 apps every new Mac user needs
  • Original Monopoly now available from EA for the iPhone / iPod touch
  • TUAW Review: Checkout, top notch Point of Sale software for Mac
  • Move Along, Folks, Nothing to See Here. Just a Minor Radiation Leak. [No Big Deal]
  • The end of exclusivity leading to big iPhone sales in Europe
  • CBC News – Toronto – Toronto's ROM crystal on ugliest buildings list

• links for 2009-11-21

  
  

  • How Do You Hide From the Internet? [Internet]
  • Policeman dies as devastating deluge strikes Britain
  • Galileo's Fingers and Tooth Recovered by Collector
  • Caricature map of Europe, 1914
  • Police: Gang Was Killing People For Fat, Attempting To Sell It To Cosmetic Companies [Dubious]
  • BitTorrent’s Future? DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained
  • Android, Palm, and iPhone users get new Google News page
  • Facebook is trying out a new photo upload tool, and it doesn't suck!
  • Google And The Amazing Technicolor Search Options
  • Spectacular Meteor Lights Up the Utah Skies [Space]
  • Large Hadron Collider is online, Higgs boson be damned
  • Dynamic Controls unveils integrated iPhone app for wheelchair controls

• links for 2009-11-20

  
  

  • Apocalyptic Images We Should Have Seen in 2012 [Concept Art]
  • the hidden valleys of Mustang
  • Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty [Smoke Gets In Your Imac]
  • Why Google Chrome OS has already won
  • Navy’s ‘Affordable’ Shoreline Ship: $477 Million Overbudget
  • Facebook Agrees To Set Friend Lists Free. Mashups With Twitter Lists Should Follow.
  • Microsoft Denies Programming NSA-Accessible Backdoors Into Windows 7 [Nsa]
  • Inside a WIND Mobile retail store
  • Barnes & Noble's Nook now sold out for the holidays
  • The Complete Guide to Google Wave Preview Edition PDF Available for Download [Announcements]
  • Oprah describes tough decision to end show
  • YouTube pulls a Hulu — yanking API access from Popcorn Hour, other TV-connected devices
  • Was Chrome OS a Disappointment?
  • Patent Issued For Podcasting
  • YouTube – Shiny Suds
  • Steven Spielberg To Bring Stephen King's Dome Horror To Life [Under The Dome]
  • False alarms prompt space station scare – CNN.com
  • Virgin Mobile Canada to carry iPhone 3G, 3GS
  • Insane Weapons, Robots and Spy Gear from the Paris Military-Police Expo [Weapons]
  • Google Testing a Permanent Search Sidebar
  • Torchlight Review: The Fate Of DiabloCraft [Review]
  • Google News For iPhone Gets Redesign
  • Google Builds Out A National Real Estate Search Engine
  • Rare Canadian stamp fetches $260,000 U.S.
  • Chrome OS Virtual Machine Build Ready for Your Testing [Downloads]
  • Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download
  • Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Treatment
  • Dung Fungus Provides New Evidence in Mammoth Extinction
  • HANDS-ON: Chrome OS Developer Version [Video]
  • Birdfeed 1.2
  • This season, crazy monkey shoes are the new hotness at the Chrome OS event
  • Star Trek Online Open Beta Stardated [Beta Watch]
  • Why Is Sandra Bullock Still a Star? [Explainer]
  • Steve Jobs Responds to Passionate App Developer, Curtly [Blockquote]
  • Do You "Get" The Chrome OS? [Question Of The Day]

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