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And, yet another edition of today’s links you need to click.

• David sends along this gem, about the absolutely classic way that a Chase bank teller foiled a robbery. Well, at least one at Chase.
• In all seriousness, this will probably have profound effects on everything from your next visit to a museum to how certain things are portrayed in film.
• SRSLY. If Dinosaurs Had Twitter.
• Monsters. Aliens. MOAR PLEASE.

Aaaaand, here’s today’s edition of Links You Need To Click…

• Seen the Twitter “movie” trailer yet? Go watch it.
• Like SXSW? Think Skynet is amusing? Go vote for @ishafer’s gig at next year’s event. You know you want to.
• I’m not the only one who thinks the iPhone 4 takes pretty good photos, am I?

It’s almost 2010 (wow!), and here’s my links you need to click for the day. Enjoy!

• Congrats to Ben and Abbi Wagner on the news of Abbi’s pregnancy. Of course, Ben writes it up in his news-guy style, keeping you waiting until the end, even if you did look at the photo first.
• After Dave busted on me for my top 25-played tracks that were born in the year of our lord 2009, I just had to link to this. Rex points to what last.fm sez are the most unwanted scrobbles – that is, the ones most deleted from last.fm users’ scrobble lists – for 2009. Let’s just say you’re probably not going to be surprised.
• For those of you that aren’t so into the cult of the blog, this post from Wil Wheaton is a perfect example of why it’s awesome that they exist in the first place. Just replace Mr. Wheaton (or don’t, if TNG does it for you) with a musician, actor, politician of your choice, and imagine that they were side-commenting their own career or history, and you’ll see what I mean.
• A couple of weeks back, Twitter released a list of the Top Twitter Trends of 2009. Those of you who get annoyed at my non-100% support of hashtags for all things on Twitter will note that beyond the hashtag-specific category, only 7 made the charts, overall, with real-text taking the cake for the most part. Again, this isn’t to say that they don’t work, only that the “average” user tends to stick to talking in actual words. Just sayin’.
• Check out Brand New’s Best and Worst Identities for 2009 here.
• Did you know that you could use multiple aliases for a given email address on your iPhone? But yes, you can. Here’s the solution for this very request, via Gruber.

In today’s links, we’ve got iPhone apps galore, some food news, some music, and Twitter news (shocker!).

• Check it, Zipcar fans. Remember the Zipcar app you might have heard about from a bit back? Well, it’s out [iTunes link]. Gizmodo has more.
• Kottke’s got more on making your own BLTs. From scratch.
• Mashable’s got a rumor about the supposedly-coming-soon tablet from Apple – that it’s essentially an iPhone with a bigger screen. Or something like that.
• A fantastic guest post from Matt Douglas on CenterNetworks about getting your startup going – though probably not the type of post you’re expecting.
• Joy points to a new spin on Phoenix’s “Rome” if you’re into that sort of thing.
• Paramore’s “brand new eyes” is out, and it’s only $3.99 at Amazon right now. And it’s good.
• Okay, I’ll bite, with a caveat. 100 people you’re suggested to follow on Twitter if you’re into the PR thing, from Conversation Agent.
• For those of you in the Weight Watchers tribe, there’s an iPhone app if you’re in that subsegment of our population. More here. It’s pretty darn good.
• The Dolphins have just acquired Tyler Thigpen from the Chiefs. At least one of those two teams is looking to not go down in flames, I guess.
• Rex informs that if you’re into Karen O or “Where The Wild Things Are” that the soundtrack is now streaming on Imeem.
• If you haven’t already heard about this disgusting Facebook poll asking whether the president should be killed, you’re probably better off for it. Hope you didn’t vote in it, as the Secret Service is looking into anyone who might have.
• Yesterday it was Texas Tech banning Twitter for football players, today it’s news that NY Jets’ WR David Clowney was benched for comments about playing time on Twitter. Nice.

These are links. You should click them. Here are some reasons why.

• In this week’s edition of “What Exactly Is Gawker’s “beat” These Days” news, I point to their recap of last night’s “Mad Men” and turn my head like an RCA dog.
• How fast is Usain Bolt, really? Some ESPN staffers found out.
• In case you missed this one, check out some fun that the New Yorker had with a recent NYT review of The Beatles: Rock Band.
• Could the “Tribute in Light” that graces lower Manhattan every year around September go dark in 2010?
• Gruber points to William Safire’s favorite New Yorker cartoon.
• If you were a digital Robin Hood, apparently you’d start at Facebook and head back to MySpace with whatever you’ve got. Or something like that. Or maybe you’d just sit on MySpace all day and post updates to Twitter.
• The amusing thing about this computer tumor is that it’s probably totally representative of the RAM bloat that your applications are chomping on, and will give you a good idea when you need to reboot.
• Trash your coach on Twitter, no Twitter for you, says Texas Tech coach Mike Leach.
• No coverage, no problem, say the Los Angeles Kings.
• OMG “Star Wars” bathrobes! [via Gizmodo]
• Dabitch seems to feel the same way that I do about the latest Windows 7 commercial.

Here’s today’s batch of Links You Need To Click…

• Gothamist points to some news in the NY Post about Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to “shoeprint” all footwear. Hello, CSI and L&O land!
• Congrats to Allison for finally getting to see Moby in NYC! It’s kinda nice to get to do things that you’ve wanted to for years and years.
• Plax goes to jail. Wonder if he’ll spike the ball on the field after not being touched when his knee was down on his first play in the prison yard.
• Hey look, it’s Microsoft’s Guru Bar!
• You see, I feel all cool as I’m coming to a close of Year 1 for the 365 Days Project on Flickr, and the damn stormtroopers have go to and one-up us all with Stormtroopers 365. [via Kottke]
• Look! Over there! It’s sponsored tweets from celebrities, courtesy of Ad.ly.
• Over at the Voce Nation blog, Chris Thilk asks what marketers would have to do if (shudder!) social media tools weren’t available for their programs, and he wants to hear from you.
• Speaking of Chris Thilk, wonder if he’s seen this juiced-up WALL-E.
• For those of you up for a challenge, Fred Wilson has one for you – as Tumblr.

As I’m cruising through the old RSS reader on a Sunday afternoon, I’ve got some stuff that is (hopefully) worth your click-through time. Now if only my fantasy baseball team would make the time I put into picking lineups every day worth my time.

• Rex points to an interesting feature that the Silicon Alley Insider sites have begun using, the ability to have posts embedded on other sites in a nifty little window. As most of us bloggers know, the number of people who’ll actually click through to a link and the number who SEE the link are not always the same thing, so this is an interesting way to get around the ‘ol blockquote, and let someone like Henry Blodget actually see how many people are reading his text elsewhere. Or something like that.
• Danny Sullivan has a thing or two to say about the contention from someone at Fox News that SEO is “scamming.” And he couldn’t be more on the mark – and amusing – in the way he does it.
• Max Damage. Say goodbye to the rest of your day. Thanks, Kottke.
• Jeremy Pepper drops dime on hip-hop maven Talib Kweli’s “guidelines” (my words, not Kweli’s) on using Twitter. Great linkage and roundup. Enjoy it, social media “experts.”
• Jenn has founded a little group called “Code She Wrote” for women who are in the NYC-general area who are – you guessed it – into design, gaming, gadgets, and so on. Knowing a few people who would definitely dig on this sorta thing, I thought it wise to pass it along. Go Jenn!
• If *anyone* is surprised by the stats that 45% of employers are not “screening social media profiles” for potential hires, then I’m not even sure what to say. Or maybe I’m just being social media snotty.
• A week or so ago, gruber pointed to something extra awesome, the lowdown on how the iPhone Sudoku Grab app works. Equal parts OMG and WTF, all at the same time.

Maybe it’s boring to some of you, but I know that’s given people’s attention spans these days, sharing tips and links that people might dig on seems to work a lot better than longer form stuff, so I’m going to keep doing it. Alright, maybe not, but it’s here for the time being. Check out what I think you might be interested in today!

• My pal Jerry Milani has a cool article at Baseball Digest about a famous Ron Swoboda catch that some of you might be familiar with.
• This has been sitting in my flagged items for quite some time, but it’s worth checking out. See what happened when a Twitter-originating comment at a tradeshow got a negative response. It’s not just movie studios being discussed on the instantaneous reactions Twitter has had on PR and marketers, you know…
• It’s been like two months since this went down, but I’d just like to say publicly that I’m so DAMN livid that CLEAR shut down it’s not even funny. Now I just have to deal with going through those “expert flyer” lanes at the airport, full of people who still have laptops in their bags. Worst “Oh, sorry” people of all time.
• I’m really enjoying Snooth and wish I used it more. Anyone else digging on it for wine stuff?
• I have a longer post about this particular topic (in my head, naturally), but is anyone else finding the amount of reply spam they’re getting on Twitter after writing something using an active topic (with or without hashtags) becoming a little silly? I’m calling them “speets.”

Yeah, that’s right. Here’s a nice roundup of stuff that I found interesting, didn’t think I should jack all the interest in and write up, and force you to click through on to read the amusing goodness. Yeah, that’s right, I’m forcing you to click!

Or not.

• Blowdryers, liquids, and dynamite?
• Everyone’s doing it when it comes to comments on your blog w/ Twitter integration, or so Costa surmises. I dig this idea, just not sure how I wanna implement it. Open to suggestions!
• Phil Gomes with a stupendously awesome email thread w/ a PR firm. It’s short. It’s not sweet. I don’t know about you, but “it would just take me ages to find your addres [sic] in our database.” is not the right answer. Even if it is.
• Wil shares a thought, related to zombies and reality. No really.
• If you hadn’t heard, Twitter is making re-tweets part of the platform. Finally. [via Rex]
• Coolest bicycle ever. Also, Tron reference that sticks. Insert glow sticks in the handlebars, and your light cycle is ready to go.

Yep, these are links. You should click them. I promise you that I won’t be the only person who finds them interesting.

• Rex Sorgatz has given his blog, Fimoculous, a new look. This shit matters, people. You just don’t realize it in your tweetminds right now. Okay, I just thought it was cool.
• Costa is incredulous about the MS / Razorfish deal. Also, his headline is funny.
• This cartoon at RWW is actually not that far from reality, IMHO.
• Chris Brogan says he’s going to stay away from humor and sarcasm because of some crabby people who didn’t like him making fun of some things. I say keep the sarcasm, as you can’t have people telling you what your voice is. It’s why they’re on your blog in the first place, no? I don’t think it’ll *really* go away, though.