It’s late night links time again! Where did the last seven days go, eh?

• The First Rule of Being a Drug Lord is You Don’t Brag About Being a Drug Lord
• Issues Heating Up
• One Can Never Be Completely Sure
  This is what I do when they give me wine to taste in a restaurant.
• Explanatory Note
• Her Side
  This is 100% accurate, except in our household the dog also likes to try and sneak in.
• Real Burgers, Real Beauty
• Redneck Sushi
• Beer-Table-Hockey-Pong
  When we have a house and I can build a proper man-cave, I will be getting this.
• Selfie
• Federal Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules, Sides With Big Telecom
  This is sad news.
• Study Shows Just How Little Action There Is in an Average NFL Game
  This is why “football” is so much worse than rugby. Partly.
• Man Found With Pipe Bomb Still Allowed to Board Plane in Edmonton
  Excellent.
• Google Now Comes to Chrome on the Desktop in Experimental Form
• Jazz and Rain Plays the Most Soothing of Sounds While You Work
  Not bad, although soundrown is still my favourite by far.
• Corralling Shania Twain a Big “Get” for Calgary Stampede
  I think we’ll be going to this.
• Cyanide & Happiness #3436: Capable of Love
• How Can I Fall Asleep Faster?
• Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing

Well that’s it for another week, folks. See you next time!

It’s the first late night links post of 2014! Yay!

• XKCD #1307: Buzzfeed Christmas
• Rudolph Hair
  I only wish my hair were long enough to do this.
• The 50 Best Sports Plays of 2013
  It’s the time of year for a lot of compilation videos.
• Jingle Balls
• I Hate Hipsters
• We Tried, Guys… We Tried
• The Heart of Christmas
• AndrOpen Office Brings Open Office to Android Tablets
• That Installation Went Smoothly
• Am I a Spy?
• Breaking News
• The Gem
  I wonder if this is common? Lots of people wake up in the middle of the night with “great” ideas. Are they all of this kind of of caliber?
• They Really Do Have Everything!
• Cyanide & Happiness #3423: New Years
• First Baby of 2014
• Let It Snow: Scenes from New York After a Big Winter Storm
  We got an extra three days in NYC because of weather delays.
• SportsCenter’s Not Top 10 – Worst of 2013
• Mr Cello, You’ve Won 1300 Rewards Points
• Australia
• Pebble Introduces the Steel, An All-Metal Smartwatch With an Elegant Look
  Want it. Might actually get one of these now.
• Asus Brings PadFone X to AT&T
  I’d quite like one of these too. Although I did just recently get a new phone.
• Multitasking
• Mars Seems Balmy This Time of Year
• Sorry We Couldn’t Make It
• Make a Chocolate Cale in Five Minutes and Just One Bowl
  Maybe I will.
• Ultimate Fireworks Fails Compilation 2013

OK, that was a lot to get through. Let’s all take a week off, and I’ll meet you back here at the same time, seven days from now.

Welcome to what will be the final late night links of 2013! Christmas is coming up fast, and after that I’ll be away on vacation for a couple of weekends. So I’ll see you all in January, but for now let’s just get this one done.

• A Classic Holiday Sentiment
• Dennis Rodman Back in North Korea to Train National Basketball Team
  What the hell is up with this guy?
• Every Android Phone, Ranked
  I’m number one! I’m number one! Flo is a reasonably respectable seventh.
• Take the 52 Week Money Challenge and Easily Save About $1,400
  I save a reasonable amount of money, but I might do this anyway next year. It’s pretty simple.
• Done Having Kids?
• This Ugly Sweater Has Some Wise Wisdom
• Kid Writes to Tylenol, Tylenol Writes Back
• Some Crazy Genius Made a Lifesize Lego Car

And we’re done! Have a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and I’ll have more random Internet crap for you in 2014!

I’m tired today. Or hungry. I can’t tell the difference. Regardless, let’s just get going with some links.

• Flawless Logic
• The Beatles Had a Way with Words When Dealing with Reporters
• Russian Soft Drink
  I want to try this.
• Christmas Decorations
• Christmas VacationCast
  I watched this movie this afternoon. This guy manages to squeeze 43 references to it into about six minutes.
• What Do You Do for a Living, Khanh?
• British Airways Announces Plans to Bring Dreamliner to YYC
  If they could bring some lower fairs too that would be nice, because at the moment they’re ridiculous compared to Air Transat.
• 32gb Nexus 7 Now Available in White for $270
  I do kind of want a white Nexus 7 to go with my white Nexus 5. Although seeing as I already have a white 10" tablet it would probably be unnecessary.
• Soap Dispenser
• Report Expected on High-Speed Rail Link Between Edmonton and Calgary
  I think we need this.
• Giant Ferrero Rocher
  There’s a candy store in Banff where they have a giant Toblerone for $100.
• Merry Christmas from Tom Hanks and Wiz Khalifa
• Farmers Market Christmas Tree
• Unhealthy Living
  Want
• Some White Bread Can Be Nearly as Healthy as Wheat Bread
  Flo will be delighted.
• The Best News Sites to Break Out of Your Filter Bubble
  Am I in a filter bubble? Is my whole life a filter bubble!? Now I’m worried.
• Ed O’Neill is in a Filter Bubble
• Have a Heart
• Cookie Monster
• Step Your Holiday Gift Game Up to the Next Level
  If you’re thinking of picking up something for me, I want 8 and 13.
• Turns Out that iPhone Cookies Can Get You in Trouble
• Ant Colony Art
  Necessary.
• Chestnuts Roasting on a Paper Fire
  I wish I had enough motivation to build this.

And we’re done for another week!

It’s that time of the week again, everybody! Where does the time go, etc, etc.

• If the Panel Says So…
• ‘Murican French Fry Holder
• Something Seems Wrong With This Scenario
• New Research Suggests Cats Know Their Owners Voice, But Just Don’t Care
  Makes perfect sense.
• Early Celebration Fail
• But the Science! It Calls to Me!
• Bitches or Not…
• Turkey, No One Wants the Damn Things
  I had no idea.
• Three UK Offers Free Data, Text and Calls While Roaming in the USA
  So now it’s cheaper for me to use my UK cell phone in the U.S. than it is to use my Canadian cell phone in Canada.
• Cal, the Calendar App from the Team Behind Any.DO, Is Out for Android
  Any.DO is good, so I should probably check this out too.
• Click
  Why did this guy even have 57 copies of click?
• Funniest Game Show Answers of All Time
  Have I posted this before? I don’t recall. It’s fifteen minutes long but worth watching.
• Second Life for Frank Lloyd Wright Design in Banff?
  I didn’t even know this was there.
• Look Closely: This Crazy Shot Goes Through His Skate
• Church Closes Food Bank Because it Attracts Poor People
• How to Pick the Perfect Smartphone Wallpaper
  I could probably use a better one.
• Vast Majority of Alberta Can Surf the Web
  This is news? I’d hope the vast majority of Alberta has a choice of at least half a dozen ways to access the web.
• Is Our Children Learning Their Mathematicals?
• Turn Your Pants Into an Emergency DIY Backpack
  WTF lifehacker? So now I can easily carry my groceries home from the store but I don’t get to wear my pants while I do it?

And that’s it for another week. See you all next Sunday, same time, same place.

Welcome to the first late night links of December! Yay! Christmas is nearly here, and so is our trip to NYC for NYE! But that stuff will have to wait, we have internet junk to get through first…

• What Did People Do Before This Brilliant Solution Was Released?
  The internet at large may laugh, but I did this years ago in the garage at home to help me avoid driving the cars into the freezer. I didn’t buy a pre-assembled kit though, I made my own out of string and a ball.
• Amazing Reasons to Get Detention
• Meet Paul
• Pause Problems
• In a Meeting
• Streak Tracks Your Email, Lets You Know Who Read It, When, and Where
  I used to use something like this a while ago, but it only worked on SMTP and couldn’t be used with webmail. This seems like a nice solution and I like the functionality, but I’m fairly sure it relies on the recipient choosing (in most cases) to display remote content when they open your email… which they probably won’t.
• Lean Over 60 Google Now Commands with This Infographic
  This, I have been looking for. With my new phone always listening, I’ve started using the voice features of Google Now much more frequently. And apparently new versions of Chrome are going to work the same.
• Paper Hat of Happiness
• This Formatting Rule Determines Whether Your Followers See Your Tweets
  I have been teaching Flo the mysterious ways of the dot this week.
• XKCD #1296: Git Commit
  I don’t even leave a message. Although I only use it for version control and synchronization on demand.
• Man Starts Writing Hillside Message to Win Back Ex-Girlfriend – But Gets Tired and Gives Up
  Who says chivalry is dead?
• Man Charged for Watching Movie While Driving on Highway
  OK – so we know using a phone to talk on is legal if you’re using a hands-free device, and we now know watching a movie is illegal. Where does a video call fall on this scale? Because I’ve definitely made hands-free video calls while driving before…
• Snowpy
• Post-It Prank

And we’re done for another week! Goodnight all.

Since I’m actually on schedule and it’s only been a week since I wrote the last late night links post there’s not too much for us to get through this evening, so let’s all just relax and take our time on this slow meandering journey through the random junk I found on the internet this week.

• How to Train Google Now to Give You Better Suggestions
• Thinking
• Bitcasa’s Infinite Cloud Storage Balloons to $999 a Year
  I don’t really care about that so much, but the article offers up some alternatives and this sounds like it might be useful.
• Hate Putting Up/Taking Down Holiday Decorations?
• Chicago’s Best Wrappers
• Nenshi Places Second on Maclean’s List
  Second most important person in Canada. Toronto still gets all the press attention though.
• Build a Cheap Home Automation System in 10 Minutes with Ninja Blocks
  We’re starting to think about purchasing a house, so I’m starting to think about automating it.
• Wait, What?
• Cyanide & Happiness #3377
• Closed Unexpectedly

And that’s it for another week! Laters.

Look at that! I actually remembered it’s lnl time. You should all be as impressed with me as I am.

• The Misty Desktop
  I have installed Rainmeter, and I fully intend to set it up and use it.
• Google Earth Tour Builder Lets You Tell Stories Through Maps
• Bolt Battery Charges Your Gadgets and Itself at the Same Time
  I want something like this, mostly so I can use my tablet during long flights.
• Captivating Retro Photos of New York
  Mostly for Flo to see. We’re going soon!
• This is What Happens When You Hog the Covers
• Blockbuster Tweeted the Last Rental From Its Last Store on Its Last Night, And the Customers’ Selection Was Quite Appropriate
• They Feel the Need For Speed
  I can’t be the only one that drives as fast as I can when I see one of these things, right?
• Motorola Unveils the Moto G, Its New Colourful and Affordable Android Phone
• Prank Gift Box
  I need one for our office secret Santa thing
• Truckers Waiting for Southeast Ring Road Flyover to go Somewhere
  Calgary has a flyover to nowhere, apparently.
• Self Checkout

And we’re done! Until next week, then.

Why hello Tumblr, it’s been a while. Or certainly been a while since my last lnl post. I’ve been on vacation, but that’s beside the point right now because there’s much to get through. So let’s dive right in…

• Texting and Driving
• The Best App Updater for Windows
  Seems useful.
• French Kiss
  It’s a little bit past Halloween now, but this is my favourite from this year’s internet stuff. I also like this though.
• Sleeping Lips Vacuum Prank
  I laughed at this for a solid 10 minutes.
• This Database of Android ROMs Helps You Choose the Best One For You
  From tomorrow I’ll have a spare Android phone that might require a new ROM
• Weird Love
• 11 Foot Eight
• Betrayed
• Tall People Problems
• HeadsUP is s SmartPhone Powered HUD for Your Car
  Want it.
• Best Album of 2013
• Maid of the Mist Completes Its Final Voyage from Canada
• Cover Promises Contextual Lock Screens and Smarter Task Switching for Android
  Useful
• Treat Your Skin in Advance to Avoid Irritation When Shaving
  I should do that.
• This is the Weirdest Ad For Dr. Pepper
• Shrink the Web: Automated Screenshots Enrich the User Experience of Your Web Projects
• Ungrateful Dead
• What If #69: Facebook of the Dead
• Google Hangouts Updated With SMS Support, Animated GIFs and Auto-Enhance for Video Calls
• Record Breaker
• Automatic Tracks Your Driving and Your Can to Save You Money and Time
  I’ve read there are much cheaper ways to achieve the same thing…
• No Ink?
  Is this true?
• Google Announces Nexus 5 with Android 4.4, on Sale Today for $349
  Bought one. It arrives tomorrow.
• Car Wash
• I Love Lamp
• Going in the Right Direction
• Former HTC Execs Launch Kazam SmartPhones, with Free Cracked Screen Replacement and Stock Android
  Sounds promising.
• Vertical Bowling
  I also laughed for 10 solid minutes at this one.
• Google’s Street View Tour of Gatwick Airport is its Biggest European Indoor Map Yet
  This would have been useful three weeks ago, but is still kinda cool.
• Annual Event Lights Up the Night at the Calgary Zoo
  Really might actually get around to going this year. Really.
• Rad URLs Shows the Top 100 Trending Links Across Facebook and Twitter
  Rad!
• Google Earth Tour Builder Lets You Tell Stories Through Maps

And we’re done! See you next week, internet.

It’s been weeks since I’ve written a late night links post, and I’ll be on vacation after this week so it’ll probably be a few weeks before I write another one. As a result, there’s lots to get through.

• Original And Innovative Web Layouts
  Flo has been talking about revamping her website. Some inspiration can’t hurt.
• Have You Ever Been So Angry…?
• You Should Shave Before We Go Out Tonight!
  This absolutely happens to me.
• Domo Toaster
  We used to be the proud owners of a Disney Tinkerbell toaster. It’s gone now. It was that thing or me.
• iMessage Unofficially Comes to Android, Needs a Big Health Warning
  It doesn’t sound as though anybody should download this, but I’m intrigued by the possibility.
• It’s Called Fashion
  Also this.
• Goalie Scores an Unlikely Goal
• How to Get Rid of That Annoying Blue Gmail Favicon
  Did Google do this on purpose? Surely not.
• Eeyore
  Halloween is coming, and it’s not just for two-legged family members!
• Mini Tasker is a Streamlined but Powerful Automation Tool for Android
  I have Tasker on my phone and I love it. This is from different people, but it’s intriguing. And free.
• Dexter Spoiler
• Shakin’ Things Up
• Google’s Comparison Tool Compares Two Things Quickly
  Well it would, I guess…
• Google Web Designer Launches in Beta, Available Now as a Free Download
• Pup Holders
• What If #65: Twitter Timeline Height
• Dog Beers
• RCA’s Internet Music System Blends Detachable Android Tablet, Boombox
  I might need this for my office.
• Exhausting
  I do this.
• And the Shoemaker’s Wife Goes Barefoot
• Connectify Dispatch Gets a Free Tier, Still Combines Your Connections
  I’ve mentioned this in a previous post. It still sounds intriguing, especially now I don’t have to pay for it.
• The Next Big Thing Is Here
• Dropcam Pro Launched with Better Optics, Dual-Band WiFi and Bluetooth
  I’d love a network camera so I can see what the dog does all day (hypothesis: the dog does nothing all day).
• Employ Adam
• Clear All Cached App Data At Once on Android
  This did wonders for my ageing phone.
• Pumpkin Scream
• All the Awesome Stuff You Can Do with a Custom Android Launcher
  I haven’t actually read this article yet, but I like awesome stuff and I have Android, so it’s on my to-do list.
• Parking in Seattle Takes a Bit of Research
• “Monotony Collapses Time; Novelty Unfolds It”
  Weirdly I was talking to my boss about this exact thing just over a week ago. And it’s true. It’s why you don’t remember your morning commute.
• Best of Metallica

And we’re done! Like I said at the top, I’ll try and remember to post these more frequently so they’re not quite so, well, long. But you can probably expect me to take the next three weeks off.