Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 9/17/10
The other night, my cats were diagnosed with a parasite, which is a fancy way of saying ‘worms.’ To remedy this, the vet gave me pills to administer to the cats. These pills aren’t cat-sized, nor are they flavored to be appealing to cats. They’re human-sized and -designed antibiotic pills. If you know anything about cats, they don’t take well to having things shoved in their mouths while wrapped in a towel and squeezed by a sweating human. In fact, feeding these pills to a fully-clawed cat is like trying to shove a bucket of rocks into a running lawnmower — it doesn’t end well, and there’s a strong probability of bloodshed.
It took me 30 minutes to get these cats tired enough so that I could cram the pills in their mouths and get them to swallow them. In the end, I was sweating, covered with enough fur to win a Wookie costume competition and the cats skulked away angrily, checking their calendars to for their next available time to eat my face.
In a word, epic fail.
We have a global interconnected network of computers. We can take high-res photos of distant galaxies. We can simulate human intelligence to a scary degree. But we apparently cannot create a pill that a cat won’t reject and spit back onto the floor in a beige loam.
I tell you this story as a precursor to the links I share below. Why? I have no idea. It makes as much sense as trying to feed a cat a human-sized pill.
So, links. Here you go.
Twitter has redesigned its web interface in a more complex way than might meet the eye. Techcrunch’s MG Sieger has a great rundown of the subtleties of the new design.
iPhone drops to 24% smartphone share; Android jumps to 17%. Again: Apple needs the iPhone on other domestic carriers, stat.
Afraid of heights? Then don’t watch this video. I got sweaty palms about halfway through and I tolerate heights reasonably well. (Update: original YouTube video pulled; what you see here is an abridged version.)
Chase Jarvis field tests the new Nikon D7000. This is on the want list.
Everything Is a Remix, part one in a four-part series by Kirby Ferguson. This will be the best thing you watch all day.
The New Yorker’s Jose Antonio Vargas as a long, detailed personal profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Worth the read whether you’re a Facebook user or not.
And that’s it. Have a good weekend, everyone. I’m going dog shopping.
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