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 August 7th from 17:40 to 09:27:

• Celebrate Shark Week With an Interactive Tour Of The Deep In A Shark-Cage VW | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce – Take an interactive tour on the sea floor in this cool @Volkswagen Beetle shark cage
• Twitter / FastCoCreate: Take an interactive tour on … – Take an interactive tour on the sea floor in this cool @Volkswagen Beetle shark cage
• NASA’s Massive Free E-Book Collection – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic – NASA's massive free e-book collection. SO MUCH AWESOME SPACE STUFF
• The NHS will fail us so long as we look on it as a market | Peter Wilby –
• Missed Connection – m4w – missanabeem: A lifetime of not saying something — don't we all have a similar missed connection? http://t.co/0grCpHp70m (via @georgiap)
• 3-year-old girl drowns as babysitter reads Facebook, police say – CBS News – Horrible: 3-year-old girl drowns as babysitter reads Facebook, police say
• Facebook to experiment with ‘trending topics’ banner | The Verge – Facebook to experiment with 'trending topics' banner
• Australian Web Awards 2013 – Hugely excited to announce the McFarlane Prize is now the grand prize at the Australian Web Awards. Enter now!