Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 11/6/09
I have parsed every single page on the Internet this week and distilled the highlights, which means you don’t have to, because it takes a very long time. I
selflessly bring this feature to this blog every Friday, primarily out of social altruism, but also because it gives me a legitimate reason to scour weird, primary-colored corners of the Internet while I’m here at work. Don’t tell anyone.
This week’s top fare, as decided by yours truly:
- The new Chrome beta (Windows only, for now) is insanely fast.
- The following is NOT from The Onion: Baguette dropped from bird’s beak shuts down the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC just can’t catch a break. Theory as to why? The Higgs-Boson is traveling back in time to prevent its own discovery. I am not making this up.
- Steve Jobs named Fortune’s ‘CEO of the Decade’.
- Birdhouse for Your Soul. A tremendous piece of writing by Gregg Knauss. You should go read it right now. Go. I’ll wait.
- You back? OK, good. Verizon is doubling early termination fees, but it’s somewhat unclear if this is on all devices or its so-called ‘advanced’ devices.
- Apple’s App Store crossed 100K apps this week. This is the most sophisticated form of device lock-in there is.
- Google Dashboard. Cool because it gives you an easy op center for all of your Google services, and creepy because it highlights just how much Google knows about you.
- Verizon Droid launches today. Here’s your complete guide to the early-adopter mayhem.
- Speaking of Droid, here’s a side-by-side comparison of Droid and iPhone 3GS photos from Andy Ihnatko. Further proof that raw megapixels are not a slam-dunk indicator of image quality.
- BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones on a week with Windows 7. Key takeaway: the OS matters less than it once did.
- Obsolete – an encyclopedia of once-common things passing us by.
- I stepped into my garage this morning, and do you know what was not waiting for me? A new Subaru STI. Man, what gives?
Have a good weekend, everyone.
