What's under Elmer's Island?: I'm not sure why we're allowing BP to put public land under lock and key, and trusting them to clean up their mess out of public view.
The Legend of Zelda Oddities: Some pretty wild stuff in here — especially the custom, satellite-only version of the game.
Dropbox Rockets To 25M Users, More Daily Files Than Tweets On Twitter: I'm happy for Dropbox, they make such a great service.
Apple TV Set: Adam Lisagor on the possibility of an Apple-made TV:
"To do more than hint at this change—this is the one reason I can see for Apple actually making a TV set with an Apple TV built-in: as a grand statement, a big Fuck You to Kabletown, as a show piece with which to say exactly what Apple thinks a TV is, but more importantly what Apple thinks a TV is not."
While I agree that this is probably something that Apple would like to do, as distribution and content companies continue to merge (see: Comcast & NBC), there is going to be zero incentive for these guys to let Apple take their content and blow up their incredibly lucrative pipes. It's too bad Net Neutrality is dead, and that there is so little competition in broadband.
Maybe Apple will make a TV, but just not bother with launching it in the US? Do it instead in Asia, or Eurpoe? (via Daring Fireball)
Once More, With Feeling: Joss Whedon Revisits 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog': A nice, short interview with Joss Whedon.
Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks: Interesting article about Bitcoin, a new Internet-based payment system.
iPhone 4 About To Be Flickr’s Top Camera. Point & Shoots? Pretty Much The Opposite.: MG Siegler for TechCrunch:
"...the iPhone 4 alone is still going to be the most popular camera on Flickr in under a year. It’s pretty remarkable, really."
Remarkable, indeed.
Links for Monday April 18th, 2011