Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/23/09

October 23, 2009
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Relatively short post today, which means not much in the way of editorial, simply because I’m slammed and have embarrassingly little time to tell you about the time a bunch of us, when we were 11, went out into the woods and made spears out of dead saplings and began to wage a sort of medieval war with one another, with notable caveat being that my buddy Shawn, wearing football pads for armor, had an unfair advantage of a wooden shield fashioned out of a piece of plywood, onto which he had used a soldering iron to inscribe his initials in thick black jags, and quite instantly this slapdash war turned into one of the Great Moments in my life, pure Lord of the Flies style, right up until a bunch of older teenagers showed up at the top of our most tactically-important hill, at which point we spooked – even Shawn with the shield – and went back to another friend’s house to play Intellivision football until our thumbs became afflicted with blisters.

So no good stories today, nope, but DFW-esque run-on sentences? Those are OK.

Anyway.

The Internet failed to implode under the weight of its own social media noise this week, and with that accomplishment came the gift of several Very Excellent things that you should see:

Wonderwall: one of the craziest, graphics-heavy but still fantastic web designs I have seen. Amazing.
A pair of scientists believe it’s a possibility that our present day problems to get the Large Hadron Collider operational to discover the Higgs-Boson is a result of the Higgs-Boson traveling back in time to meddle in its own discovery. Michael J. Fox has been paged to look into the mystery.
Dan Benjamin’s excellent podcasting equipment guide.
Verizon’s upcoming Motorola Droid phone marketing blitz is getting some raised eyebrows, many unfortunately as a result of the ad agency’s unfortunate mixing of proper and prime apostrophes.
~~Dan Lyons~~ Fake Steve Jobs with an interesting take on Microsoft’s top chief.
If you’re familiar with Shazam, most famous for its iPhone incarnation, then you will probably love this explanation of how it works.
11 ingenious sings on The Simpsons.
Comedian Louis CK gets BitTorrent content removed by resorting to the drastic measure of…asking nicely. See that? No lawyers, no mess. What a concept.