Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for July 18th from 19:30 to 13:45:

• NYCHenge – Just perfect. Wish it worked on any city. It should work on any city.
• Reader Signatures – Alexis Madrigal's collection of mobile email signatures sent in by his readers
• Mobile-Device Email Signatures: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic – Nice piece from Alexis Madrigal on how people sign mobile emails. You can draw a direct line from Hotmail, pre-Microsoft, to this. You guys know Microsoft didn't invent Hotmail, right?
• Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars’ Web Series Ruffles U.K. Feathers With Similarity to British ‘Carpool’ – The Daily Beast – Simple idea, different takes
• ShoreTel Dock | ShoreTel – Hey guys I want to turn your stupendously powerful computing device into a deskphone that makes the same ringtone those Cisco IP phones from 24 do.
• Games for the weekend: Plague Inc — Tech News and Analysis – At first glance I'd want this to feel more… gamey.
• collision detection: On the value of imagining yourself as a mosquito, or a beam of light – Wonderful.
• The Spark File — The Writer’s Room — Medium –
• Elon Musk’s mission to Mars –
• Writing Ahead of the Future | Tor.com –
• A review of Charles Stross’ Neptune’s Brood | Tor.com –
• 20 Minutes Into The Future –