Monday Links: September 15th, 2008

It has fallen to me this week, dear readers, to feed you your weekly supply of links.  Boy, do I have a list for you.  So let it be written, so let it be done.

• If you’re craving more regular linkage, let me point you to a great new source I’ve discovered.  The New York Times started the Ideas blog a while back, which serves up a handful of links each day to interesting sites, reports, and other resources.  Highly recommended, check it out.
• Avast, me hearties!  This Friday the 19th of Septembarrrrr be Intarrrnational Talk Like a Pirate Day!  Cast off your land lubber ways and smartly muster yourself up a pint o’ grog with your maties to celarrrrbrate!  If you can’t summon up mad skills like these, the site above reminds us of the ubiquity of the well-placed Arrrrr!:

“Arrr!” can mean, variously, “yes,” “I agree,” “I’m happy,” “I’m enjoying this beer,” “My team is going to win it all,” “I saw that television show, it sucked!” and “That was a clever remark you or I just made.”

• Lee LeFever at CommonCraft writes about his experience with Amazon Fresh, the experimental grocery delivery service that the commerce giant is beta testing in its Seattle home market.  You can elect to have your groceries delivered in the middle of the night or during the day, all in temperature-controlled, reusable containers.  As if that wasn’t enough, through a service called Amazon Now, you can even have items from Amazon.com’s vast commercial inventory included in your order.  Get your eggs and a digital camera in the same box, same day, no delivery fees if your order is over $25.  Madness.
• Also via Common Craft: comedy.
• Link dealer extraordinaire Jason Kottke points us to this MythBusters nugget showing how sulfur hexafluoride has the opposite effect on your voice that helium does.  It is hilarious, and probably giving a lot of people Halloween ideas.

• During the company’s 10th anniversary celebration, high profile Googlers are presenting their views on the future of the Internet via the official blog.  They’re really intriguing and worth a read, especially Marissa Mayer’s take on the future of search.  You can find the rest here.
• Anyone else as confused as Arrington, Taylor and I are about Microsoft’s strategy with its new ads?  OK, they make me chuckle and make Bill Gates seem a degree more human.  But it doesn’t talk about the products.  At all.  Rumor has it that later commercials will get into this, and the two released so far are supposed to warm us up to the company.  We’ll see if it works, I guess…
• Fasten your seatbelts, social networking conservatives: Facebook’s getting ready to pull the big lever.
• I’ve started drinking a bottle of Honest Tea every afternoon (I really like the Moroccan Mint Green variety), and this little tid-bit from Lifehacker makes me feel good about it.
• Clive Thompson reports that scientists used Google Earth to determine that cows align themselves with magnetic north.  Will this have an impact on barn construction, and would such bovine feng shui improve the quality of their milk?  Stay tuned, cow lovers!

That is all.  Happy mid-September, and stay tuned for posts from both of us (shocker!) this week.