Relatively short post today, which means not much in the way of editorial, simply because I’m slammed and have embarrassingly little time to tell you about the time a bunch of us, when we were 11, went out into the woods and made spears out of dead saplings and began to wage a sort of medieval war with one another, with notable caveat being that my buddy Shawn, wearing football pads for armor, had an unfair advantage of a wooden shield fashioned out of a piece of plywood, onto which he had used a soldering iron to inscribe his initials in thick black jags, and quite instantly this slapdash war turned into one of the Great Moments in my life, pure Lord of the Flies style, right up until a bunch of older teenagers showed up at the top of our most tactically-important hill, at which point we spooked – even Shawn with the shield – and went back to another friend’s house to play Intellivision football until our thumbs became afflicted with blisters.

So no good stories today, nope, but DFW-esque run-on sentences?  Those are OK.

Anyway.

The Internet failed to implode under the weight of its own social media noise this week, and with that accomplishment came the gift of several Very Excellent things that you should see:

• Wonderwall: one of the craziest, graphics-heavy but still fantastic web designs I have seen. Amazing.
• A pair of scientists believe it’s a possibility that our present day problems to get the Large Hadron Collider operational to discover the Higgs-Boson is a result of the Higgs-Boson traveling back in time to meddle in its own discovery.  Michael J. Fox has been paged to look into the mystery.
• Dan Benjamin’s excellent podcasting equipment guide.
• Verizon’s upcoming Motorola Droid phone marketing blitz is getting some raised eyebrows, many unfortunately as a result of the ad agency’s unfortunate mixing of proper and prime apostrophes.
• Dan Lyons Fake Steve Jobs with an interesting take on Microsoft’s top chief.
• If you’re familiar with Shazam, most famous for its iPhone incarnation, then you will probably love this explanation of how it works.
• 11 ingenious sings on The Simpsons.
• Comedian Louis CK gets BitTorrent content removed by resorting to the drastic measure of…asking nicely.  See that? No lawyers, no mess. What a concept.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

So today is 83 and it seems cool.  That’s because the last few days have been nearly 100, the exact temperature at which human beings will readily cook on a sidewalk.  It seems Spring got trumped something fierce and Summer showed up and took all the money.  Spring just got a book deal for a biography though, so no skin off its back.

Bad week for celebrity deaths: RIP Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and The King of Pop, Michael Jackson.  At least Fake Steve Jobs can rest easy knowing he wasn’t chosen to complete the triumvirate.

Anyway, here’s my poorly-filtered list of the most interesting links for this week.  If you don’t like any of these, perhaps I can interest you in a Land Shark?

• Requests issued into a person’s right ear are more likely to be granted.  PROTIP: Jumping around your boss like a rhesus monkey trying to get next to his/her right ear might be counterproductive.
• Corporations have their own little nicknames for their logos.  Examples: The AT&T logo is called The Death Star, GE’s logo is The Meatball, SAP’s is The Anvil, and the Warner logo is Two and a Half Hot Dogs.  Best of show: Lucent Technologies’ logo is The Coffee Stain.
• Dan Lyons, who recently resurrected his excellent Fake Steve blog, nails why Apple needs Steve Jobs in his latest Newsweek column.
• Not losing weight?  It’s because you’re eating, duh.  Try a diet consisting solely of air, called breatharianism.  If you don’t lose weight, you’ll die.  But look at it this way: regardless of what happens, you’re not worrying about weight. (via kottke)
• Jakob Nielsen says it’s time to start showing passwords in clear text as we type them.  The insubstantial benefits of password masking are far outweighed by the costs of support calls and failed logins and overly-simple password schemes.
• John C. Welch has a classic rant about the arrogance of Adobe regarding Flash.
• Security expert Bruce Schneier posits that Ebay is becoming useless for selling things like computers due to pervasive fraud.

And, finally, this.  Naturally.