The Tom Gilbert Blog

Weekly Digest for August 29th

giblet — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:01:47 +0000

Marathon update: more photos online!

Weekly Digest for August 22nd

giblet — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:00:36 +0000

Weekly Digest for August 15th

giblet — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:00:29 +0000

	Shared Adorably deadly Mini Cannon returns.
	Posted First run back home from nyc.
	Shared girl quits job on dry erase board exposes farmville boss called her hopa theCHIVE.
	Shared Tweets of Old.
	Shared Self portrait. Self portrait
	Shared My Humps In Sign Language.
	Posted The bicycle superhighway to hell.
	Shared Advice for Britons on serving foreign guests.
	Shared Jet Blue responds to Epic Bail / angry flight attendant fiasco with Office Space reference.
	Shared IMG_5789. IMG_5789
	Shared Denny’s Fried Cheese Melt.

Weekly Digest for August 8th

giblet — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:01:40 +0000

	Shared DARPA and NIST testing real-time translation system for use in Afghanistan… with a Nexus One.
	Shared Use a Slight Smile Instead of a Poker Face [Mind Hacks].
	Posted After work run in nyc.
	Shared Google Wave flatlines: no plans to further develop standalone product, future is in other Google services.
	Shared Cyanide and Happiness by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker and Matt Melvin – 5 August 2010.

Weekly Digest for August 1st

giblet — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:00:14 +0000

	Posted Morning run in NYC.
	Posted Morning run in NYC.
	Shared Ant drinking from a rain drop.
	Shared Watermelons in the shape of cubes, hearts, and pyramids.
	Shared Faux femme fatale finds flaws in social networking security.
	Shared Jet pilot ejects from crashing plane at near-zero altitude (photos).
	Posted Brooklyn Bridge run.
	Shared Parrot AR.Drone now available for pre-order at Brookstone.

Weekly Digest for July 25th

giblet — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:00:08 +0000

	Shared Gallery of plane crash photos on Wired.com.
	Shared Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo completes first flight with crew on board.
	Shared Chasing the unicorn.
	Shared Glowing algae turn Australian lakes electric blue.
	Shared Horizon’s Minipak, Hydrofill and Hydrostik fuel cell devices go up for pre-order.

Sitting in my new flat browsing the web thanks to my MiFi

Weekly Digest for July 18th

giblet — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:00:02 +0000

	Shared Win tickets to Bompas & Parr’s edible spectacle.
	Shared British Empire presents new kite to Darth Vader.
	Posted Park run.
	Shared Sad snapshot: Unicorn in a trash can, NYC.
	Shared The Narrow’s got a new private dining area on a sailing bar… on Twitpic.
	Shared Improv Everywhere: Star Wars.
	Posted First ride on the new bike!.
	Shared Bootlegger Liquor Concealer.
	Shared Rube Goldberg rat-run sends a neutral balloon through dozens of Dyson bladeless fans.

Weekly Digest for July 11th

giblet — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:00:54 +0000

	Shared Analogies.
	Shared Space-saving murphy furniture designed by a mechanical engineer.
	Shared Fender Custom Furniture.
	Shared Brave Space Design tetris shelves.
	Shared Mobilier Contemporain – MARAIS INTERNATIONAL.
	Shared Single \| ResourceFurniture – expandable coffee table.
	Shared Prince: "The internet’s completely over.".
	Shared Sometimes you just have to say fuck it and chill hard..
	Shared Internet gentleman really, really likes rainbows.
	Shared Award Wallet Tracks Your Frequent Flier Miles, Credit Card Points, and Other Rewards Programs [Saving Money].
	Shared YouTube’s New Mobile Web Site Is HTML5-Friendly, Better than Native Apps [Cellphones].
	Posted Hungover park run.

Sitting in my new flat browsing the web thanks to my MiFi

Weekly Digest for July 4th

giblet — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:05:10 +0000

	Shared iPhone app updated – background listening arrives!.
	Posted Park run.
	Shared Google acquires ITA for $700m, dives headfirst into airline ticket search.
	Shared Why heterosexual men are attracted to women with small feet.
	Shared NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system, codename GENIE (video).

Weekly Digest for July 4th

giblet — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:05:10 +0000

	Shared iPhone app updated – background listening arrives!.
	Posted Park run.
	Shared Google acquires ITA for $700m, dives headfirst into airline ticket search.
	Shared Why heterosexual men are attracted to women with small feet.
	Shared NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system, codename GENIE (video).

Weekly Digest for July 4th

giblet — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:05:10 +0000

	Shared iPhone app updated – background listening arrives!.
	Posted Park run.
	Shared Google acquires ITA for $700m, dives headfirst into airline ticket search.
	Shared Why heterosexual men are attracted to women with small feet.
	Shared NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system, codename GENIE (video).

Weekly Digest for July 1st

giblet — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:00:06 +0000

	Shared Stop Trusting Your Future Self to Get Stuff Done. Do It Now. [Quotables].
	Shared Mario live wallpaper for Android: better than a Tanooki Suit in the summer.
	Shared Community-developed Pivot Power strip now available to order.
	Shared The tools of language and the craft of understanding.
	Shared Why tuna is delicious.
	Shared Great blooming agave, Batman!.
	Shared Canadian man replaces his false eye with bionic camera eye, is putting eye video feed online for all to see.
	Shared Woot CEO’s note on Amazon acquisition may be best "We Got Bought!" email ever.
	Shared .
	Shared Vote to repeal Britain’s Digital Economy Act!.
	Shared 3 videos.
	Shared 30th Anniversary of Airplane!.

Weekly Digest for June 24th

giblet — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:03:33 +0000

Weekly Digest for June 17th

giblet — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:00:12 +0000

	Shared Summer Survival Skills: Keep Your Drinks Cold.
	Posted Saturday run, just shy of 10k.
	Shared SCO is done.
	Shared Reeder client for Google Reader now available for iPad.
	Posted Sunday run.
	Shared So what are the UK, France, German, and Japanese iPhone 4 carrier plans going to be? \| TiPb.
	Shared Read It Later Introduces Its Offline Reading to the iPad, Adds New Features [Downloads].
	Shared Starbucks sets its own Independence Day: free WiFi for all starting July 1st.
	Shared Wash your Han S..
	Shared Mac Mini gets a sneaky update: spec bump, unibody enclosure, HDMI.
	Shared Acoustic engineer explains why vuvuzelas are annoying.
	Shared Classic Photographs in LEGO.
	Shared Google Earth comes to the iPad.
	Shared Dependencies.
	Shared HOWTO silence vuvuzela drone on your TV.
	Shared Horizon MiniPak personal fuel cell charger hits shelves for $100.
	Shared Outwitting Squirrels: one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.
	Shared IBM’s Watson is really smart, will try to prove it on Jeopardy! this fall (video).

Weekly Digest for June 10th

giblet — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:00:04 +0000

	Shared Mad 3D maze-city of Kowloon.
	Shared Watch the tongue at work.
	Shared Stormtrooper action figure portraits.
	Shared Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins – 4 June 2010.
	Shared Dell Streak review.
	Shared Book Burning.
	Shared Dendritic coasting.
	Shared Google Maps Historypin.
	Shared Will our galactic overlords be Titanish?.
	Shared iPhone 4 vs. iPhone 3GS: the tale of the tape.
	Shared Sign at BP gas station: "Do not leave pumps unattended, You are responsible for spills".
	Shared Apple iPad and Samsung Wave share a brain.
	Shared Crime in San Francisco displayed as elevation.
	Posted Quick park run.
	Shared How a big oil spill turns good cleanup plans upside down.
	Shared 50 photos.
	Shared Italy 2010 Hilights – a set on Flickr.
	Shared Newlyweds discover their paths crossed in Walt Disney World when they were toddlers.
	Shared Play SNES on your jailbroken iPad, with an iPhone as controller (video).
	Shared Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress.
	Shared Report: AT&T security breach exposed 114k iPad users.
	Shared Locals and Tourists maps show where visitors and locals take pics in major cities.
	Shared Where to Watch World Cup Soccer Streaming Live [Sports].

Weekly Digest for June 3rd

giblet — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:01:08 +0000

Shared Librarians do Gaga.

Weekly Digest for May 27th

giblet — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:00:17 +0000

	Shared Your Olympic nightmares, the 2012 edition.
	Shared UK government promises immediate, sweeping, pro-liberty reform.
	Shared Metafilter users save two Russian girls from sex traffickers.
	Shared Qbo, the open source robot, gets detailed, looks cute.
	Shared Secrets of a suitcase-packing ninja.
	Shared Google’s homepage goes amazing to celebrate Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary.
	Shared Practice Mobile Stock Market Trading With Market Millionaire.
	Shared Cyanide and Happiness by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker and Matt Melvin – 21 May 2010.
	Posted Long canal run.
	Shared Entelligence: Is Android fragmented or is this the new rate of innovation?.
	Posted Hyde park and river ride.
	Shared Gallery: Amusement imagines game consoles, architected.
	Shared Schneier at the airport.
	Posted Interval session.
	Shared Boy falls off escalator in Turkey.
	Posted Tempo, couple of sprints.
	Shared Apple and Microsoft now neck and neck in market capitalization.
	Shared Apple and Microsoft now neck and neck in market capitalization.
	Shared "Top Kill" In Progress.
	Shared Wired does a first iPad edition: It rocks, but costs too much.
	Shared iPads arriving a day early in UK.

Weekly Digest for May 20th

giblet — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:00:09 +0000

	Shared Infographic shows how high Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo will actually go.
	Shared The Disaster Disaster.
	Shared Transpositions Of Air.
	Shared ReclaimPrivacy Bookmarklet Rates Your Facebook Exposure Levels [Facebook].
	Shared 60 Minutes: Despite damaged blowout preventer, BP cut corners immediately before explosion.
	Shared The Kitchen.
	Shared London cooking classes timetable.
	Shared Financial Times chickens out, refuses to run Amnesty’s anti-Shell Oil ad.
	Shared London to become one giant WiFi hotspot by 2012, because Boris says so.
	Shared Anti-identity-theft huckster has had identity stolen at least 13 times.
	Shared Mayor Promises City-Wide WiFi By 2012 – Londonist.
	Shared NYC sidewalk with a tourist lane.
	Shared Craig Venter creates synthetic life form.
	Shared Space Oddities.

Weekly Digest for May 13th

giblet — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:00:33 +0000

	Shared Big Bother.
	Shared Quote For The Day II.
	Shared Resembles Yoda, this cloud does.
	Posted Quick Dublin run.
	Shared Leonard Nimoy posts picture of his mom for Mother’s Day.
	Posted Just shy of 10k.
	Shared From Red and Blue To Orange and Green.
	Shared GigaPan Epic Pro helps create 44,880 megapixel panorama of Dubai skyline, world’s largest digital photo.
	Shared Funny history of programming languages.
	Shared Boulton v Campbell.
	Shared Eric Raymond: Android Rising.
	Shared Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres: Welcome to the Night Hike.
	Shared Quote For The Day.
	Shared Are You an Asker or a Guesser?.
	Shared Sir Ian ‘Gandalf’ McKellen mistaken for homeless, given a dollar.
	Posted 3x 8min miles.
	Shared “Complete the Danged Fence”.
	Shared Facebook’s Huge Maze of Privacy Options Mapped Out [Facebook].
	Shared Correction Of The Day.

Weekly Digest for May 6th

giblet — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:00:07 +0000

	Shared Chop or Not: What would you cut from the UK budget?.
	Posted First run since the marathon.
	Shared Party Election Broadcast.
	Shared Stephen Hawking: HOWTO build a time machine.
	Shared Marathon update: more photos online! \| The Tom Gilbert Blog.
	Shared Darwin’s Beetle goes in search of a mate.
	Shared Free Comic Book Day shoplifter foiled by Spiderman, Jedis and the Flash.
	Shared Color perception among XKCD readers.
	Shared Cool Ad Watch.
	Shared Magimix Glass Toaster.
	Shared Quote For The Day II.
	Shared Get Off That Treadmill.
	Shared Immigration: The Law Or The Numbers?.
	Shared It’s General Election week \| The Tom Gilbert Blog.
	Shared BBC to project real-time election results on Big Ben’s tower.
	Shared Expensify Generates Expense Reports from Credit Cards and Cameraphone Shots [Receipts].
	Shared A spring metamorphosis — Google’s new look.
	Shared Official Google Blog: A spring metamorphosis — Google’s new look.
	Shared Here It Is: Google’s Kick-Ass Chrome Speed Test Video.
	Shared HOWTO Tell a debt-collector to go to hell.
	Shared Official Info on the Mifi 2372 Battery Issue. (Updated with reports from 2352 owners) \| UMPCPortal – Ultra Mobile Personal Computing.
	Shared Tax Amnesty TV ad knows who you are, Tom..
	Shared Okay, Charles Stross said it better, read him instead \| The Tom Gilbert Blog.
	Shared The Truth About Labour’s Record.
	Shared Cutting Libraries in a Recession….

	Shared Of Mosques and Men: a new Liberty Street message.
	Liked Wide angle london timelapse.
	Shared Wide angle london timelapse. Wide angle london timelapse
	Shared Spotify – now with folders!.
	Shared Photos from NYC subways in the 1980s.
	Shared AwesomenessReminders.
	Shared 10 years ago: AOL – Eliza prank.
	Shared Now you, too, can quit like JetBlue guy: The SlipQuit™.
	Shared Gentleman arrested after yelling at his bicycle.
	Shared Rolling shutter effect can make stunning iPhone photos.

	Shared Rep. Nadler: We Do Not Put the Bill of Rights and Religious Freedom to a Vote.
	Shared Is the web really dead?.
	Shared Kindle, iPad, and paper examined microscopically.
	Shared Watch this face. Watch this face
	Shared Ahead Stop.
	Liked London from Limehouse.
	Shared Celebrity Nerds: Justin Timberlake — secret Android lover?.
	Shared The most isolated man on the planet.
	Shared Blade Runner tribute: "Bladerunner revisited >3.6 gigapixels".
	Shared Video from Shuttle booster falling back to Earth.
	Liked Ninja squirrel sighting.
	Shared Building a Twitter client with Google App Inventor.

	Shared Manage Your Brand’s Social Media Presence with One App.
	Shared Immortal jellyfish.
	Shared Interdisciplinary.
	Shared Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik & Jerry Holkins – 18 June 2010.
	Shared Mac mini (mid 2010) review.
	Shared Computationally, my dear Watson.
	Shared IT Crowd season premiere sneak peak.
	Shared New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your "precise, real-time location".
	Shared Photographers’ bust-card screened onto a lenscloth.
	Shared Dyson Air Multiplier fans grow up to Tower and Pedestal dimensions.