Stuff I’ve found around the web that doesn’t warrant a full blog post at Become A Robot. Tumblr (3.0; @robot)http://robot.tumblr.com/<p><i>Message from Jason:</i></p> <p>I don’t know how long Tumblr’s been truncating imported feeds, but I don’t appreciate it.  When I share an item, I want the <i><b>entire</b></i> item availible in my linkblog’s feed or on my linkblog’s web page.  So I’m not going to be using Tumblr any more.</p> <p><b>You can continue to see all my shared items at my new (or “old” if you’ve been following me long enough) linkblog:</b></p> <p><b><a href="https://www.google.com/reader/shared/15846736309780824598"><a href="https://www.google.com/reader/shared/15846736309780824598">https://www.google.com/reader/shared/15846736309780824598</a></a></b></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41505466http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41505466Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:31:59 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/329099057/improv-everywhere-ma.html">Improv Everywhere: mass twins on subway</a>: <p><img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/mirrrrorororor.jpg" height="303" width="478" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Mirrrrorororor"/><br/> The wonderful <a href="http://improveverywhere.com">Improv Everywhere</a>’s latest prank involved a bunch of identical twins riding the same subway in New York City. <a href="http://laughingsquid.com/identical-twins-create-human-mirror-on-nyc-subway-car/">Human Mirror</a> <em>(Laughing Squid)</em>, <a href="http://improveverywhere.com/2008/07/06/human-mirror/">Human Mirror project page</a> <em></em></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41370823http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41370823Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:39:44 -0500<a href="http://io9.com/5022399/are-mercurys-days-as-a-planet-numbered">Are Mercury's Days as a Planet Numbered? [Mad Geophysics]</a>: <p><img src="http://io9.com/assets/images/io9/2008/07/Mercury_01.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" style="display:block"/>Ever since the International Astronomical Union <a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060824_planet_definition.html">demoted</a> Pluto to a dwarf planet (does it even deserve a capital “P”???) in 2006, astronomers around the world have been at odds to describe…</p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41370822http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41370822Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:39:44 -0500<a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/07/cabel-sassers-firewo.html">Cabel Sasser's fireworks packaging explosion! (image! gallery!)</a>: <span><img alt="Fireworks-13-alt.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/Fireworks-13-alt.jpg" width="520" height="328" style="text-align:center;display:block;margin:0 auto 20px"/></span> <p>Cabel Sasser’s gallery of fireworks packaging is not to be missed, especially if you love viewing our society through the eyes of a Photoshop-equipped Chinese factory designer.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cabel.name/2008/07/yay-fireworks.html">Yay!…</a></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41357850http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41357850Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:28:13 -0500<a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/328956078/cabel-sassers-firewo.html">Cabel Sasser's fireworks packaging explosion! (image! gallery!)</a>: <span><img alt="Fireworks-13-alt.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/Fireworks-13-alt.jpg" width="520" height="328" style="text-align:center;display:block;margin:0 auto 20px"/></span> <p>Cabel Sasser’s gallery of fireworks packaging is not to be missed, especially if you love viewing our society through the eyes of a Photoshop-equipped Chinese factory designer.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cabel.name/2008/07/yay-fireworks.html">Yay!…</a></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41350489http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41350489Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:22:44 -0500<a href="http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080704/NEWS/176897856/-1/rss15&rssfeed=rss15">Cedar Rapids library won't reopen for at least a year</a>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41000626http://robot.tumblr.com/post/41000626Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:42:38 -0500<a href="http://darkgate.net/comic/images/pvp/1215155315.gif">PVP - 4 July 2008</a>: <p><img src="http://darkgate.net/comic/images/pvp/1215155315.gif"/></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40989476http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40989476Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:32:10 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/325633184/shepard-faireys-orwe.html">Shepard Fairey's Orwell covers -- books now on sale!</a>: <p><img src="http://craphound.com/images/faireyorwell.jpg"/><br/> Back in April, I <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/13/shepard-faireys-cove.html">told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs</a> for Penguin’s reissue of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. They’ve just gone on sale! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141036141/downandoutint-20">Link to Nineteen…</a></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40982954http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40982954Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:26:59 -0500<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/02/phone-booth-with-fau.html">Phone booth with faux saloon doors</a>: <p><img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_goodole.jpg" height="425" width="500" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Goodole"/><br/> I really like this fun street art spotted by Torontoist. <a href="http://torontoist.com/2008/06/vandalist_operator_im_looking_for_t.php">Phone booth with saloon doors</a> <em>(via <a href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/07/good_ol_fashioned_street_art.html">Wooster Collective</a>)</em><br style="clear:both"/><img alt="" style="border:0;height:1px;width:1px" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=1f14277ad00b96533400fec9ba1c64d0" height="1" width="1"/><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1f14277ad00b96533400fec9ba1c64d0" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40860028http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40860028Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:37:25 -0500<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/02/walle-is-a-copyright.html">Wall-E is a copyright criminal</a>: <p>Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities (bypassing…</p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40860027http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40860027Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:37:25 -0500<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/03/shepard-faireys-orwe.html">Shepard Fairey's Orwell covers -- books now on sale!</a>: <p><img src="http://craphound.com/images/faireyorwell.jpg"/><br/> Back in April, I <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/13/shepard-faireys-cove.html">told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs</a> for Penguin’s reissue of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. They’ve just gone on sale! <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141036141/downandoutint-21">Link to Nineteen…</a></p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40860026http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40860026Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:37:25 -0500<a href="http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/07/cowboy_cookies_recipe.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954">Cowboy Cookies Recipe</a>: <p><img src="http://blog.craftzine.com/6a00d83451b93f69e200e553978da78834.jpg" height="375" width="500" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="6A00D83451B93F69E200E553978Da78834"/><br/> Echos of a Dream shares a recipe for <a href="http://simmy.typepad.com/echoesofadream/2008/06/do-you-ever-find-yourself-saying-yes-to-something-and-then-bitterly-regretting-it-because-the-person-who-asked-you-to-do-the.html">Cowboy Cookies</a> — a mixture of oats, coconut and chocolate chips. A batch can make about 36 cookies. <br/></p> [<a href="http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/07/cowboy_cookies_recipe.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954">Read this article</a>] [<a href="http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/07/cowboy_cookies_recipe.html?CMP=OTC-5JF307375954#comments">Comment on this…</a>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40852136http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40852136Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:32:15 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/325837627/">Memeo makes it easy to send photos to grandma</a>: <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/internet/" rel="tag">Internet</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/photo/" rel="tag">Photo</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/productivity/" rel="tag">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software/" rel="tag">Social Software</a></p> <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/www.memeo.com"><img hspace="4" height="85" width="250" vspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/06/memeoshare.jpg"/></a>Memeo’s new <a href="http://www.memeo.com/press_releases.php#memeosharenew">Share</a> application is designed to make the process of sending high-resolution photos a little easier,…http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40843947http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40843947Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:27:02 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/325786539/">Noise of the white variety, right on the webernets</a>: <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/productivity/" rel="tag">Productivity</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag">Web services</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-2-0/" rel="tag">web 2.0</a></p> <img width="234" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="118" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/07/simplynoise.com---the-best-free-white-noise-generator-on-the-internet..jpg" alt="SimplyNoise"/>Have you ever been working somewhere and needed to focus on what you were doing, writing, saying, but there was too much ambient…http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40843946http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40843946Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:27:02 -0500<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/324075801/windows-steadystate-creates-a-wreck+proof-space-for-kids-experiments">Windows SteadyState Creates a Wreck-Proof Space for Kids, Experiments [Featured Windows Download]</a>: <p><img alt="steadystate.png" src="http://lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2008/07/steadystate.png" width="228" height="140" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2"/>Windows XP/Vista only: SteadyState, a free Windows utility offered by Microsoft, is a handy tool to have if you’ve got kids, friends, or just a program or two that could possibly wreak havoc…</p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40785319http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40785319Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:40:24 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/325323638/">Mozilla Firefox breaks non-existent world record - nobody cares</a>: <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/internet/" rel="tag">Internet</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/mozilla/" rel="tag">Mozilla</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/browser/" rel="tag">Browsers</a></p> <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/zoonie/13257334/"><img hspace="4" height="255" border="0" align="right" width="196" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/07/13257334_dc29c0f9c6_m-1.jpg" alt=""/></a>Remember, that whole <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/06/17/firefox-shoots-for-world-record-ladies-and-gents-start-your-b/">Firefox download day</a> thing that we got so amped up about? Us too.<br/><br/>Remember when their servers screwed the pooch…http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40762432http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40762432Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:19:43 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/325278346/phone-booth-with-fau.html">Phone booth with faux saloon doors</a>: <img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_goodole.jpg" height="425" width="500" border="1" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Goodole"/><br/> I really like this fun street art spotted by Torontoist. <a href="http://torontoist.com/2008/06/vandalist_operator_im_looking_for_t.php">Phone booth with saloon doors</a> <em>(via <a href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/07/good_ol_fashioned_street_art.html">Wooster Collective</a>)</em><br style="clear:both"/><img alt="" style="border:0;height:1px;width:1px" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=1f14277ad00b96533400fec9ba1c64d0" height="1" width="1"/><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=1f14277ad00b96533400fec9ba1c64d0" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/><p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/boingboing/iBag?a=in2utq"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/boingboing/iBag?i=in2utq" border="0"/></a></p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/325278346" height="1" width="1"/>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40756788http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40756788Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:14:36 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~3/325283509/">Make your own Mario masterpiece with Mario Paint Composer</a>: <p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/fun/" rel="tag">Fun</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/utilities/" rel="tag">Utilities</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/windows/" rel="tag">Windows</a>, <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh/" rel="tag">Macintosh</a></p> <img hspace="4" height="170" border="0" align="right" width="245" vspace="4" alt="Mario Paint Composer" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/07/mario-paint-composer.jpg"/><a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/04/19/free-mario-paint-composer-for-windows-and-mac-mario-does-john-cage/">Mario Paint Composer</a> lets you do what you know you’ve wanted to do all of your life…compose music in the key of Super Mario….http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40756786http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40756786Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:14:36 -0500<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/324958413/walle-is-a-copyright.html">Wall-E is a copyright criminal</a>: <p>Jesse Willis went to see the new Disney/Pixar movie Wall-E and discovered that the lovable little robot is actually a dire criminal — because he undertakes a variety of copying activities (bypassing…</p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40756787http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40756787Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:14:36 -0500<a href="http://io9.com/5021217/before-abrams-the-end-of-the-star-trek-experience">Before Abrams, The End Of The Star Trek Experience [Star Trek]</a>: <blockquote>Shared by Jason <br/> This is very sad. I had hoped to go here someday.</blockquote> <p><img src="http://io9.com/assets/images/io9/2008/07/startrekexperience.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/>If you’re the kind of romantic who’s always dreamt of taking your loved one through a Klingon Encounter or 4-D Borg…</p>http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40717706http://robot.tumblr.com/post/40717706Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:42:49 -0500