National Curmudgeon's Day Shortbread

1. Ars Technica: How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet
2. Shacknews: QuakeCon 2011 dates announced; event runs from August 4 to August 7, 2011
3. Tablets won't steamroll Microsoft, top executive says
4. SemiAccurate: ARM talks about 20nm CPUs and chips in your eye
5. Ars Technica: OWC launches Mac mini-based HTPC configuration at Macworld
6. Donanim Haber: Intel's 10-cores processor and 30MB L3 cache (in Turkish)
7. SuperSite for Windows posts Internet Explorer 9 RC preview
8. IndustryGamers: John Carmack says NGP is a 'generation beyond' smartphones

National Curmudgeon's Day

1. Lifehacker: How to foil a nationwide Internet shutdown
2. Techdirt: Swedish ISP will automatically encrypt all traffic
   to protect privacy under new data retention laws
3. DSLReports: Clearwire responds to last place Netflix ranking
4. Ars Technica: MPAA, BREIN take down more torrent sites; Internet barely notices
5. Opera study: Americans most fearful about online government monitoring - DailyTech
6. Ars Technica: FCC says net neutrality lawsuits filed too soon
7. DSLReports: Verizon buys Terremark for $1.4 billion
8. C|Net: Is Apotheker's 'coolness' quest what hp needs?
9. Engadget HD podcast 234
10. Engadget: New research suggests our brains delete information at an 'extraordinarily high' rate
11. Dark Horizons: Peter Jackson surgery delays "Hobbit"

1. ATi-Forum files report from AMD's Asian Pacific Fusion Day (in German)
2. Intel simplifies data center
3. AppleInsider: Apple indicates final Xserve orders won't ship for two more months
4. Sharky Extreme's biweekly memory prices
5. X-bit labs: SanDisk, Toshiba gearing up for 10nm-class process technology for flash memory
6. TUAW reports Kanex brings full HDMI capability to Macs
7. Engadget: Samsung's new dual-sided QWERTY remote for Smart TVs revealed by the FCC
8. VR-Zone: Thortech announces Thunderbolt and
   Thunderbolt Plus Series gaming performance PSUs

1. C|Net reports Connecticut & Google reach agreement over Wi-Fi data
2. C|Net reports Dell hints at Android 3.0 tablets, new Win Phone 7 devices
3. DailyTech: Global cell phone sales soar; Apple, Android OEM are big winners
4. Ars Technica: Omni Group continues push on iOS, adding cloud sync for Palm and Focus
5. TUAW has Boxhead for iPad exclusive preview video
6. SuperSite's Windows Phone 7 app of the week: Shazam
7. C|Net reports Nook Color gets 1.1 firmware upgrade

1. PCWorld: Windows vulnerable to zero-day XSS attacks
2. How-To Geek: How to get SSH command-line access to Windows 7 using Cygwin
3. OMG Ubuntu: CodeWeavers unleashes new Windows Impersonator
4. Will there be a new application in Office 15?
5. Betanews: The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice Portable
6. Network World: Open-source challenge to Microsoft Exchange gains steam
7. Ubuntu Geek: How to install amarok 2.4 in Ubuntu 10.10
8. openSUSE announces Development Milestone Six of Six
9. System Explorer 2.7.1
10. Simple Port Forwarding 3.0.20
11. SSD Tweaker 1.8.2
12. TeamViewer 6.0 build 10194
13. Realtek HD audio driver v2.57 for Vista / Win 7 and 2K / XP / 03

1. Ars Technica's PlayStation NGP roundup: Price, battery, hardware, and games
2. Blizzard's Core Hound Pup adoption campaign
3. Eurogamer: Blizzard targets Warcraft gold sellers
4. Homefront's PC specific features
5. Shacknews: Anarchy Reigns trailer teases what's to come and
   CoD: Black Ops 'First Strike' DLC screens released; Inside
   Xbox previews competitive maps
6. Valve: Portal 2 console versions are 'identical' - Shacknews
7. Paradox tells Ars what went wrong, how it's fixing Magicka
8. Left 4 Dead 2 and Magicka updates released on Steam
9. Shacknews Weekend Confirmed episode 45

1. C|Net: Should you buy a 13" laptop now or wait?
2. KitGuru's MSI CX623 laptop review – Core i5 / GeForce 310M
3. The SSD Review on 80GB Intel 310 series SSD
4. TweakTown reviews Gainward GeForce GTX 560 Ti Golden Sample
5. PC Per's GeForce GTX 560 Ti review roundup - Galaxy, MSI & Palit compared
6. Hardware Heaven reviews PowerColor HD 6950 PCS++
7. Hardware Secrets updates Nvidia chips comparison table
8. Legit Reviews reviews Corsair SP2500 2.1 speakers
9. Tweaknews on Zalman CNPS5X CPU cooler
10. XSReviews on Noctua NHC-14 CPU cooler
11. Funky Kit reviews Spire Thermax Eclipse II CPU cooler