This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 16th from 12:20 to 22:48:

• Letters of Note: Love, Dad – Beautiful.
• DAE notice that when Tony Stark mentioned shawarma in The Avengers… : movies – Yeah, I remembered to look out for this third time round. Tony Stark is awesome.
• Top10 gamification executions | Marketing magazine – It's things like this that make my job difficult.
• Disaster Expert: Fictional ‘Avengers’ Mayhem More Expensive than Real-Life Tragedies – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews – "The costs of the Chitauri invasion of New York are approximately $60-70 billion in physical damage and another $90 billion in estimated losses of services, businesses and overall cleanup. For a comparison, Kinetic's report said the financial costs of the 9/11 attacks came to $83 billion, the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami came to $122 Billion, and Hurricane Katrina came to over $90 Billion."

  Also: I'm pretty sure that, depending on how good a clean-up job SHIELD did after the events of Thor in the current Marvel film universe, most law firms would be having a field day renegotiating act-of-god and force majeure clauses.

• New and improved bubble display prints letters with air and water | The Verge – Make everything a display.
• Gamasutra – News – Digital games should be more like networks than products, says EA’s Segerstrale – "If everything goes to plan, Segerstrale believes that EA's numerous connected games will capture players' attention whether they're using their console, their mobile device, or their favorite social network." Can I just say HOW DUMB it is to in effect make me feel like I've been forced to play ME3 multiplayer and Infiltrator just to get a better war readiness rating so I have a chance at the "good ending"? Ham-fisted forcing of engagement, no thanks.
• Gamasutra – News – In-depth: Is it time for a text game revival? – I think we're missing a trick here. There's something that Andy and Cooper's playfic gets close to, but let's put it this way: the web/net hasn't disrupted interactive fiction yet.
• Nike Materials Index Hackathon at 1227 NW Davis St, Portland, Oregon – Nike on Plancast – @hondanhon: We're hosting a Nike Sustainable Materials hackathon this weekend at W+K and Pie. Come along! http://t.co/OzLemT4L

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 14th from 12:07 to 14:54:

• The Future of OAuth: Your Health Insurance and Where You Eat | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: A new addition to my OAuth is your future set: The Future of OAuth: Your Health Insurance and Where You Eat http://t.co/iy4ObTyP
• The Future of OAuth: Your Tax Return and LinkedIn | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: A new addition to my OAuth is your future set: The Future of OAuth: Your Tax Return and LinkedIn http://t.co/o4peinWk
• Untitled – @hondanhon: RT @brandonnn: The new KATAMARI DAMACY soundtrack has a pretty uh, stunning? cover: http://t.co/XlZAHEmL (freshly on sale at iTunes: htt …
• A POSSIBLE FUTURE: Klout and the Department of Homeland Security / CBP – Oauth | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: @waxpancake you might like this one – http://t.co/oFZyNhjI
• Twitter Blog: The best of Twitter in your inbox – @hondanhon: RT @dfabu: Twitter announcements suck. http://t.co/2rMxi4LR "Starting today, YOU can" j/k #wait "We’re rolling out to everyone over the …

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for May 13th from 15:04 to 09:59:

• Klout and the Department of Homeland Security / CBP – Oauth | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: @iamdanw Just for you: http://t.co/deTv31YB
• Klout and the Department of Homeland Security / CBP – Oauth | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: Klout and the Department of Homeland Security / CBP – Oauth. Fast-track visa entry for individuals Klout users. http://t.co/biSiGWoD
• Metropolitan Police and Twitter Oauth | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: Metropolitan Police and Twitter Oauth. You probably don't want this. http://t.co/feZVsOPV
• Customs and Border Protection – Foursquare | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: US Customs and Border Protection on Foursquare. This is the future you wanted, right? http://t.co/uFMrLBqH
• Customs and Border Protection – Foursquare | Flickr – Photo Sharing! – @hondanhon: @gnat You mean like this? :) http://t.co/68N0trkf
• Instagram – @hondanhon: Captain Picard Day! I love you, Portland http://t.co/tiyjPhQT

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 10th from 01:33 to 13:51:

• Instagram – @hondanhon: RIP Maurice Sendak @ Wieden + Kennedy http://t.co/VYqvyT54
• Twitter / john v willshire: I lost count of the number … – @hondanhon: RT @willsh: I lost count of the number of things wrong with this, but let's start with the definition of a 'perk'… http://t.co/0Mrkx9qr
• Festo ExoHand | jwz – Pinned mainly for jwz's one-liner ("Getting closer to being able to punch someone through the internet") and also because: remember that scene in Terminator 2, where Arnie has to persuade Miles Dyson that he's a cyborg and does it by cutting open his arm, pulling of his biological tissue sleeve and exposing the inner workings of his arm/hand? Yeah, that. But now.
• App of the Day: Tweet Land • Reviews • Eurogamer.net – OK, hit all of my buttons in one. A procedurally generated, Twitter-sourced side scrolling iOS game.
• Oh, Right: Also, we’ve got a game | The Fullbright Company – I just about had an embarrassing accident, that's how excited I am about this.

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 9th from 00:53 to 17:37:

• Space Quest Sequel Finally Gets A Kickstarter | Rock, Paper, Shotgun – This isn't really a bookmark about the Space Quest/Two Guys Kickstarter project, more an observation in general about Kickstarter. If you believe what's being written about Bezos and Amazon at the moment, they're on a hell of a disintermediation rampage. So when does Kickstarter butt up against Amazon? When does Amazon start listing products that don't exist yet?
• Gamasutra – News – Facebook’s new App Center takes inspiration from Apple’s App Store – If Facebook wants to be a platform in the way that iOS is a platform, do we get subjected to simple arguments about some of them being "proper" platforms where one can do work, or whether they're consumption-only platforms? What sort of apps does Facebook want to sell, and what makes Facebook the best place to sell them?
• Distributing 3000+ copies of an iOS game | Six to Start – Adrian on how they user server-side authentication to distribute thousands of copies of Zombies, Run! to Kickstarter backers.
• Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » Dear The Old People – MGK's response to Ezra Klein's ask: what would you say in a reverse-commencement address, where young people address their elders on what they should know?
• xkcd: Ten Thousand – Among so many other things, this is why Randall would make such a good teacher. I think.
• The 21st-Century TV Shows That Get 21st-Century Tech Right – Technology – The Atlantic Wire – Good for a gut-check on what mass entertainment culture thinks technology is (as opposed to what it actually is). Via Phil Gyford.

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links from Twitter and Pinboard.in for May 7th from 00:49 to 22:57:

• More hyperwall images – Although this might instead be "powerwall-2" given the url
• The hyperwall: A multiple flat-panel display wall for high-dimensional visualization – Bookmarked mainly for this: "Example of a 7 7 hyperwall display showing different visualizations and timesteps of a Space Shuttle main engine liquid hydrogen turbopump CFD simulation." Must be a super early version because the displays are only being driven at 1280×1024 and the compute nodes are Athlons with 100GB IDE disks. Which takes you back.
• Visualization System: hyperwall-2 – … and this is, I think, the latest version of the Hyperwall (hyperwall-2) at NASA AMES. I have to admit, it seems pretty, um, old now. Hey, anyone want to make a joke about playing Crysis on it?
• blprnt.blg | Jer Thorp – … and here's Jer Thorp's blog, the most recent posting as of this bookmarking is A SET OF VISUALISATIONS EXPLORING THE HISTORY OF THE AVENGERS.
• GoodMorning on the Hyperwall. on Vimeo – I WANT A 128-DISPLAY 16*8 HIGH RESOLUTION HYPERWALL AND A RESIDENT DATA ARTIST. Why does NASA AMES get all the cool toys? Oh right, because it's NASA AMES.
• blprnt on Vimeo – That exo concept was by this guy.
• Exo: A Visualization of Kepler’s Exoplanet Candidates on Vimeo – A few things about this: 1. This is some awesome Star Trek shit. The Stellar Cartography lab on the later Enterprises and in Voyager? This is that. 2. 48 planets in the habitable zone? THAT'S 48 M-CLASS PLANETS. HOW CAN YOU NOT THINK THAT IS AWESOME. 3. By the 36th second you can tell this is an Oblong interface. 4. Speaking of seconds, the pull-out around the 30th second? More awesome. 5. Coming soon for web and tablet. IT'S A STELLAR CARTOGRAPHY LAB IN YOUR POCKET.

  I don't think you understand how excited I am about this.

• 2048pixels – Wallpaper for Your iPad Retina Displays! – Not enough good ones here yet.
• A Whole Lotta Nothing: Transformers/Avengers rated: PTSD – Matt on city destruction in this year's Avengers and last year's Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon. I have to admit that there was just one scene in The Avengers where a tower collapsed, WTC-style, and I thought: they're really going to show that?
• Republicans Out Of My Scrotum! | jwz – I don't get you, America
• Gamasutra – News – Big improvements for browser games on the horizon, says Epic’s Sweeney – "I think the next step in that is cross-compiling games from C++ or whatever and directly running them as native HTML5 and JavaScript applications within any standard web browser," [Sweeney] predicts.

  Well. That would be something.

• Gamasutra – News – Opinion: A matter of Life & Death – Oh God, I remember when the sequel came out for this and had 256 colour VGA graphics. SO LIFELIKE!
• Instagram – @hondanhon: It's hot in Portland today http://t.co/cc3rft8b
• Untitled – @hondanhon: RT @Superflux: Today at 9am on @BBCRadio4 #StarttheWeek @anabjain joins Andrew Marr @charlesarthur @Harkaway @simonings http://t.co/T0s6 …