These are my links for July 7th through July 21st:

• How To Test a Lens –
• How to give your cat a pill in 7 steps –
• Labwarehouse.com – Surplus lab supplies, equipment and goods:
• Old Soul –
• Old School Color Cycling with HTML5 –
• The Truth About Guns – Exploring the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns
• Plnnr – plan the perfect trip, automatically! –

These are my links for April 19th through May 7th:

• Missing The Point: It Doesn’t Matter If Torture “Works” –
• Transistors go 3D as Intel re-invents the microchip –
• DSLR Mirror Lock-Up – Worth the Effort or Not? –
• Take Shape For Life –
• A Keyboard and a .45 –
• Oleg Volk Photography –
• CrimeReportSearch –
• The First Zombie-Proof House –
• OOSChecker: The Ultimate iPad2 Treasure Hunter –
• Affordable Weekend Getaways and Vacations – LivingSocial –
• Texas3006.com –
• Corps Lakes Gateway: Texas –
• Lily Ponds Cottage – New Ulm, Texas –
• Google Encrypted Search –
• Portal 2 and Steam on PlayStation®3 –

These are my links for March 13th through March 19th:

• debt collection, bankruptcy, personal finance & consumer rights | Caveat Emptor –
• consumerlawyer.mn — aggressive consumer advocacy –
• Y Combinator –
• How to Incorporate a Business –
• Beautiful by Nature – Turks and Caicos Islands – Turks and Caicos Tourist Board –
• FIAT of Austin –
• The Secret World –
• Langley Ranch –
• Japanese Earthquake Implications Quick Q&A –
• Someone is doing something nasty –
• Micromegas –

These are my links for December 23rd through January 4th:

• Best Buy Masters Computer Science & Information Technology | Ratings & Rankings | GetEducated.com –
• CSU CS Online Masters Degree –
• Portalarium – Game Developer in Austin (Richard Garriott has joined this team)
• Car2Go Sweeps Austin Off Its Wheels – Car2Go to hopefully expand its area, and definitely expand its fleet with new cars
• bunnie’s blog –
• TF2 Backpack Examiner – Blueprints –
• Musican killed in home burglary attempt, authorities say –
• James Jean | Home –
• Chumby Spare Parts at Sparkfun –
• The animal world has its junkies too – Animals that get high
• MakerBot Industries – Robots That Make Things. –
• chumby sphere forum –
• Chumby hacker board beta – ChumbyWiki –
• chumby hacker board wiki –
• Texas State History IMAX Theatre –

These are my links for November 7th through November 21st:

• Das Keyboard –
• Hyperbole and a Half –
• AustinRecruiter.com –
• AccessUT – UT students and alumni recruiting – HireTexas
• the Experience eRecruiting Network – University of Texas Natural Sciences Career Services eRecruiting
• Necropolis of Britannia Manor III (Unknown Cache) in Texas, United States created by LordBritish –
• ArduiNIX – Arduino Nixie Tube Kit
• Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds –
• Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time –

These are my links for July 29th through July 31st:

• Minecraft –
• Dave Ramsey –
• The Slickdeals Approach to Negotiating the Price of a New Car –
• TrueCar –
• Postalicious –

If anything goes wonky, let me know…

Flock is a new web browser based on the Mozilla engine. So, it’s a lot like Firefox but also somewhat different. A lot of blog and picture integration is embedded within the base browser. It also features a wide library of extensions. Many of those share the exact name with extensions I use in Firefox everyday, so I’m betting that it’s not too hard to port them over. In fact, the Flock extension page states:

Very soon you will be able to add your favorite extensions and we’ll convert them on the fly for you.

update: they now have the page up for conversions: http://extensions.flock.com/extensions/convert

My initial goofing-off with Flock leaves me very impressed. In fact, I am posting this article from the built-in blog publisher. There are also nifty drag-and-drop abilities to post images on a forum or whatnot. It will automatically upload a picture to flicker for you while you are dragging the image onto a forum, and then paste the correct code there. I would love for the ability to customize that feature with the ability to upload to an FTP instead, but it’s definitely a great idea already. There is also a built-in spellchecker.

The import engine worked extremely well, it imported everything from Firefox in a snap, and my transition to using it was seamless. The extensions library is already impressive. I expected it to be sparse at the beta, but I was pleasantly surprised. Really there’s only a couple extensions that I would miss if I were to switch main browser, but I can’t check that “make this my default browser” box quite yet.