Links For A Sunday Morning

• 2009: Most Anticipated Books
• Open a Banana Like A Monkey
  Apparently our way is inefficient.
• Roger Federer Unbuttoned

  People develop Federer obsessions the way teenagers have crushes. They can't get the guy out of their heads. The late novelist David Foster Wallace, a devotee, said of one Federer forehand against Andre Agassi that, "It was impossible. It was like something out of 'The Matrix.'"
  I think that gets us close to the heart of the matter. Let me put this bluntly: Is Roger Federer part of a Matrix-like artificial reality or is he flesh and blood?

• Scratch
  Nice product idea. I hope they include the recipe too. I saw something similar in Namdhari's for sambhar. It could work for other dishes too.
• Study: Night owls may benefit from evening strength
• Speeding Up RSS
  So now RSS isn't fast or 'real-time' enough. I don't get this obsession for real-time these days. Having/wanting to know everything that happens that very instant.
• Find Creative Commons images with Image Search on Google
• Weight loss tips for geeks
• Fotoglif - One source, thousands of new photos a day, the worlds top photographers and agencies, free to view & free to use
  The pics are great...the catch though is that the image embed has Google ads too. Though you get paid a percentage if they get clicked on.
• Introducing the Google Chrome OS
  After years of speculation its finally here.
• Scientists claim sperm 'first'
  Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first.
• Vote for WordPress 2.9 Media Features
• allt eller inget
  This guy takes pics and then blends them to create amazing scenes.
• Tipo/Cali grafia - a set on Flickr
  Nice calligraphy work.
• Kaminey - Songs
  When I got to know the title I wondered if there would be a title song. There sure is and it is the best song in the album. And it goes without saying that the whole album is littered with Gulzar gems. That would need a whole another post. Anyway...
• Fancy Fast Food
  Extreme makeovers of fast food items.
• President Obama's first 167 days - Pictures
  Many of them are from the White House photostream on Flickr by Pete Souza, who has one of the coolest jobs in the world.
• Premiere Issues
  Covers of the inaugural issues of magazines.
• Facebook Activism: Lots of Clicks, but Little Sticks
  Facebook's Easy Virtue: 'Click-Through Activism' Broad but Fleeting.
• What The Trend?
  Find out what's trending on Twitter and more importantly...why.
  Also What the Hashtag?! - the user-editable encyclopedia for Twitter hashtags
• How To: Iron a Dress Shirt and when you have - How To: Fold a Dress Shirt
• The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
  On the Nike+ sensor system.
• Interactive - How the human brain works