Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 3/4/11
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You never again need to curse your weak-flushing toilet again. American Standard has just introduced its Champion toilet, a high-tech device so powerful it can flush 18 golf balls at once. Or 56 chicken nuggets. Regardless, these won’t get clogged. Ever.
Google rakes content farms by tweaking its algorithm to punish content farms and other purveyors of ‘low quality’ content. This article is from a few days ago and already I can see a difference in my search results. Robert Scoble agrees.
Apple adopts Thunderbolt, aka Light Peak. This new technology made its debut in last week’s launch of the new MacBook Pro laptops. This is the future, folks, and Apple’s got the head start.
Read This
Rand in Repose (Michael Lopp) with another winner, this one entitled, The Noise. You should read this.
What happens after Yahoo acquires you.
Watch This
Locked in a Vegas hotel room with a Phantom Flex, a $150K super slow-mo HD video camera. Splashing, spraying and breaking never looked so good as they do at 2,564 frames per second.
A Brazilian police dog seizes ball during soccer match. Cue the jokes about what was in the ball in 3…2…1…
Here’s the experimental Shelby Code Red edition GT500 Mustang. For about $150K, you get a twin-turbo, 5.4L V8 Mustang replete with twin intercoolers and two different fuel delivery systems (one for race fuel, one for street). Built as a corroboration between Shelby and Nelson Racing Engines, this puts out 1,000 to 1,200 HP at the wheels, with peak HP of 1,400 being attainable under the right circumstances. And just listen to that thing.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
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