Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 12/3/10

It was such a frantic time on the Internet this week (as determined by my highly subjective evaluation method) that I nary have any word count allowance for an anecdotal preamble.  Which is too bad, because I was going to go on and on about the piece of French cheese I purchased that I had the counterperson shape in the head of a world leader with a soap knife.  It had facial hair and everything.  Man.  What a story that is.

But no, no.  Much too busy with links this week.  To wit:

Ben the Bodyguard is an upcoming iPhone app.  Check out the absolutely fantastic HTML5 teaser website.  Simply scroll down.

Podcast freak?  Check out this post over at Metafilter which not only suggests good podcasts (This American Life takes top honors), but also the best episodes of a podcast within a series.  Much stuff to download here.

The isolated vocals from Gimme Shelter are chillingly good.  Jagger and Merry Clayton are perfect.  Skip to 2:38 if you’re pressed for time.

Most people, when they get their hands on an ultra-high-speed camera, shoot an athlete or something else moving fast.  That’s why this is so perfect in its simplicity: someone took a high-speed camera, mounted it to a train windowsill, and shot high-framerate footage of the platform passing by.  Life in ultra-motion.  Surreal.

New theory suggests insanity (and to an extent multiple sclerosis) is a virus entwined in every person’s DNA.

I, Reader: a lovely essay about books, reading, and e-reading.

Speaking of e-readers, Kindle is ‘rapidly’ losing e-reader market share to Apple’s iPad.  My take?  Once the iPad gets lighter and goes to a better display technology, it’s game over for the Kindle and other standalone readers.  Amazon execs have to know this, hence their hedge by releasing Kindle apps for competing devices.

Want Google to beatbox for you?  Go to this page and hit listen.

Finally, there’s this.  If this Kyle Maynard video doesn’t inspire/touch you, nothing will.  Have a tissue handy.

Have a good weekend, everyone.

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