The Best of the Internet: Friday Links Edition for July 17, 2009
- Economist Tyler Cowen argues that autism can be an advantage in the academy, not a detriment.
- Ever wonder where gyro meat comes from? You needn’t wonder anymore.
- NASA will be releasing “greatly improved” video imagery to commemorate yesterday’s 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
- TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington takes a ton of heat (see the comments) from the web community after writing a post about his dilemma regarding whether or not to publicly post internal Twitter records that were stolen by a hacker named “Hacker Croll”. After the barrage, Arrington responds.
- Incredible what a half year can bring: 20 brands and products that died in 2009. (thx @bchesnutt)
- Microsoft is presenting a series of lectures on physics by Caltech legend Richard Feynman. Bill Gates, using personal funds, help secure secure the rights to these. Bravo, Microsoft. Awesome stuff.
- The Words You Wear – Rands (Michael Lopp) at the absolute top of his game. Everyone who works in corporate America needs to read this. Twice.
- Turns out the simplicity of the iPhone GUI allows users to actually make use of more of the features afforded by the device. Who knew that accessible interfaces translated into user adoption? Bizarre.
- John Gruber has the best analysis (and context-setting) of Google’s Chrome OS announcement I’ve seen yet.
- Finally, here’s a mind-bending series of videos collected by Jason Kottke entitled What Fast Looks Like. As a sports car nut and speed freak, I couldn’t get enough of this. Also: I would very much like a Lamborghini Murcielago, so if you have an extra one lying around, I’ll draw you a few thousand three-legged wolves in exchange for it. Thanks.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
