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 –

• What are your obsolete gaming skills? » Has the advance of time rendered any of your videogame abilities redundant?
• Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys » Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard.
• ‘Perry Bible Fellowship’ Comic Is Ending »
• Google Lunar Xprize » Google is offering $30 million to the first people to put a robot on the moon.
• Portal 2 Confirmed » On tonight’s episode of X-Play, lead designer for Portal, Kimberly Swift, confirmed that there will be a Portal 2. Video of interview at the link.
• Gene research may help explain autistic savants » Mice lacking a certain brain protein learn some tasks better but also forget faster, according to new research from MIT that may explain the phenomenon of autistic savants in humans.
• Austin Czech Historical Association »
• Self-healing rubber bounces back » A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.
• GetByMail » Remote Access & File Sharing by Mail
• Making your windows folder smaller!  »
• LitePC Technologies » trim Windows operating systems
• HDDVD is Dead – Toshiba Press Release » Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.
• Samuel Adams Hop Sharing Program » Samuel Adams beer is selling their hops to microbrewers at just above their cost, to help alleviate the strain of the hop shortage on microbreweries.