Linkdump 31
- NASA reports that 2008 was the coolest year since 2000 and given the global financial crisis it makes you worry about countries investing into environmental causes
- IMDB has the nominations of the 81st Annual Academy Awards
- Joseph Jaffe having a bit of fun with the greatest piece of research ever
- You can now embed YouTube videos in your SlideShare presentations
- Obama’s tech-savvy team landed in Microsoft hell in the White House
- And sticking with the most watched man TechCrunch has a detailed write-up on how exactly the new government will utilise web technologies
- And Microsoft themselves lay off 5,000 staff, of course via an unprintable and unforwardable email and here’s Ballmer’s internal memo
- lastminutetravel.com sells hotel rooms for $1/night during 2 weeks in January during 15 minutes per day so sign up for it – there’s also a collection of viral films with it
- Duncan contributed a Gizmodo post on Windows 1.0 and TUAW has 25 years of Macintosh in pictures
- TC reports that Facebook is nearly twice the size of Myspace, VC funding dropped 33 percent in Q4 and the global interwebs population passes 1 billion
- David Bergman made a 1,474 Megapixel photo of Obama’s inauguration and Greta Christina looks at the epic event from an atheist’s point of view
- And the Vatican’s now got a YouTube channel to spread their message but I won’t be listening
