Sunday, August 7, 2011

Links, week 7: Milestones


I'm writing this at 12 a.m. on August 8, 2011, otherwise known as the luckiest day of the year.

I hit 7,777 page views and 2,500 unique visitors. (Well, maybe 2,500 unique IP addresses.) That's a big deal! I think.

My stats for the week aren't bad either:

Blogging: 16 hours, 53 minutes
Guitar: 1 hour, 26 minutes (I had to return my rented guitar to the shop....)
Email: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Literary (New Yorker, Grantland): 2 hours, 33 minutes
Distracted: 8 hours, 18 minutes

Distracted consists of Facebook, Quora, Google search, Yahoo Sports, Tech Crunch, NYT, Google Analytics, WSJ. Cut it down, Peter.

Some great links, though.

Best of the internet. I want you to click on every link in the following paragraph. Do it. You won’t be disappointed. How Apple came up with the “i” in its name; how Apple uses its $76.2B in free cash; what it's like to be a drug dealer; the benefits of boredom; the life of an escort girl.

Best of the rest:

Sports: The playoff schedule at Rucker Park; 2011 trade deadline winners and losers; Packers win the superbowl; The A’s don’t know how to play fundamental defense; adding a pair of wild-cards; the end of Barry Zito

Quora: the most boneheaded plays in NFL history; people to watch on Quora; what’s the longest NY subway line?; best travel blogs and tips;
                                                                                                                                  
Tech: AirBnB has really stepped up its game; Google makes the first blow in the patent wars;; are you in an Android or iPhone state?; giving out your real name online is revolutionary; here’s a hip new landing page for your “About” sectionsocial product development

News: $1 test, 15 minutes, to see if you have HIV; 8 billionaires you’ve never heard of; lotteries are broken; just look here; the new gaming culturebest motivator that gets you approaching women; stop doing stupid shitwhat happened to Obama?

Writing: Sleep No More review; earn money by writing articles for Yahoo!; why certain people attract more mosquitoes; the art of being a character; Gopnik on learning how to draw;

Korean dramas are on Hulu, for free!

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