Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 9/3/2010
Whatever you did on the internet this week pales in comparison to the utterly astonishing links I present to you below. I say this completely subjectively, without even so much as the slightest hat tip to objectivity or fact. It’s Friday — what do you expect?
Have a song stuck in your head? Unhear it is a tool for removing that earworm…and replacing it with another. (Sorry.)
This is why modern American society can’t have nice things.
Gmail Priority Inbox is rolling out to Gmail users as you read this. It’s a nice feature, long overdue, that helps you sort your firehose of email. Of course, it’s a product of Google watching and modeling your read/reply behavior and turning it into predictive analysis. Creepy? Yeah, sorta. But until Skynet comes together and my toaster holds me hostage, I’m all about better email organization.
Roger Federer’s tweener trick shot surfaces again in Queens. Stunning.
Speaking of Federer, what’s your take on this video that supposedly shows him knocking a water bottle off a production assistant’s head (a la William Tell), not once, but twice? The intertubes are split on whether this is real or fake. Me, I say it’s genius viral admaking.
True weekend reading: Learning to Be Me, by Greg Egan. I’m on a short story kick lately, and I enjoyed this one a lot. (Current book, in case you’re wondering: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower. Excellent.)
Finally, the always-awesome John Cleese shares his insight on writing, creativity, getting in the zone, and the price of interruptions. We hear this stuff all the time from nerds, but it’s refreshing to hear it coming from a veteran who isn’t in the tech industry.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
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