Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/13/09

November 13, 2009
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Ignoring the terrifying fact that it’s Friday the 13th and my yogurt this morning was clearly expired long before its November 26 sell by date (spooky, no?), the Internet had a pretty good week. And by good week I mean I found lots of things that were interesting to me, and in the name of social capital, trust and altruism, I share them with you. Aren’t you lucky?

Robert Scoble has an excellent post about how Twitter lists have become his main news source, essentially mitigating RSS and standard info consumption models completely. I find this fascinating personally, because most of the really fresh news I get via Twitter, but I can’t see RSS being marginalized just yet. I’ll need time to play with this, because it’s truly disruptive, as least as far as my workflows are concerned.
Want an effective ward against the heavy omen of Friday the 13th? Want to also tear up a little, but in a good way? Watch this video of a dog welcoming home a US soldier from Afghanistan.
Tim Burton animates the MoMA logo. Fantastic.

Gartner estimates the worldwide smartphone market share. In a nutshell: Apple grew YoY from 13% to 17%; RIM from 16% to 21%. HTC grew from 4.5% to 6.5% and Samsung held on at 3%. Nokia dipped from 42% to 39%. As John Gruber says, now is a great time to recall the words of Steve Ballmer, only two years ago: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”
Slate’s Michael Agger decided to have some fun with Google’s search box, and the results are both awkward and fascinating. As Rafe over at RC3.org says, it’s a search engine confessional of sorts.
Check out the designy barcodes appearing in Japan.
How you can avoid an untimely death. I particularly like #2: “Never get on a 4-wheeler ATV, as they have produced more quadriplegics than anything else.” It’s worth reading the whole list. (via kottke)
Speaking of design, Apple has overtaken Nokia to claim the profit crown in the mobile phone industry. MG Siegler has a great piece about Apple’s pursuit of profit rather than raw market share. You should read it.
The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert tears SuperFreakonomics authors Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dubner up one side and down the other on the pair’s geoengineering chapter of their latest book. Ouch.
A man, distracted by a low-flying pelican, drives his $1.6M Bugatti Veyron into a salt marsh. Part of me died reading this. (Thx to Chris for the heads-up)