Link 182: 19 of this Week’s Best Links

What you are about to read is an assortment of links that the VaynerMedia office found this week – some are tech, some are sports, some are funny, some are random, but all of the links are interesting… or so we think!

AJ Vaynerchuk: Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass. Design is how something works.

David Zhang: The Best Times to Buy Anything Even though I try to be smart and look for those out-of-season clearance sales, not every product has seasons as easily distinguishable as clothes (chocolate? gym memberships?). Enter Lifehacker’s year-round guide to “post-peak” shopping.

Zak Jacoby: Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive. An amazing story about a man who lived through the Hati earthquake by using his iPhone to survive.

Sam Taggart: Meeting Mix. Such a great organizational tool! Allows the user to create and manage an agenda for phone calls & in-person meetings that can be shared with attendees. I’ll be using this all the time.

Matt Sitomer: Apple in Talks to Make Bing the Default iPhone Search Engine?. Google’s hegemony might be the only thing that could unite Apple and Microsoft like this.

Adam Kopec: My Favourite Fonts of 2009. A fun collection of I Love Typography’s favorite fonts of ’09.

Joe Whitmarsh: Open Letter From OK Go, Regarding Non-Embeddable YouTube Videos. A great letter to fans on the business of the music industry. OK Go, who gained a lot of attention for their self-made music videos that they posted to YouTube, explain why they can no longer allow embeddable YouTube videos for fans to share.

Stephanie Bagley: Seesmic Look Tries to Take Twitter to Masses. Aims to make Twitter more accessible to sections of the population vastly underrepresented in the Twitterverse by creating channels on popular themes like celebrities and sports while also offering branded pages from companies like Red Bull and The Huffington Post. Seesmic is also in talks to have Look preinstalled on PCs.

Leora Israel: Take That E!: Facebook Invades the Golden Globes–The Scandalous Video!. Facebook branches out into content creation. Randi Zuckerberg and Brandee Barker were on the Golden Globes red carpet asking questions directly sent in by Facebook users.

Neil Sarkar: XKCD. I know it’s from last week but it’s so. good. If you like meta jokes.

John Oates: NBC Pulls Web Clips of Conan’s Most Expensive Bit Ever. It’s not classic Conan funny, but it’s hilarious watching him take his parting shots at NBC

Saeed Jabbar: iPod Touch : 10 Cool Productivity Apps For Offline Use. Great apps that will keep your productivity flowing offline and on.

Caleb Brown: Supercharge Your CSS with PHP Under the Hood. Dynamic CSS with the power of PHP! Neat, right?

Marcus Krzastek: Meet The New Youtube. I’m digging all the changes Youtube is making, gives the site a much needed overhaul

Sameer Tanakia: Top 8 Skyscrapers That Will Push the Limits of Design Interesting to see that the New World Trade Center is not on here.

Jacquie Meehan: Interactive. I’m always looking for new “flashy” flash sites, and this one had caught my eye.

Mike Boyd: North Pole: One week of never ending sun. A week where the sun never sets, eliminates the need for nightlights!

Keith Holjencin: Stock and Flow. Robin Sloan covers the terms stock and flow from economics, and compares them to producing lasting content (stock) and keeping a steady stream of updates (flow) to your tribe.

Bonus Link: Matt Sitomer: More CPR Players Embrace E-commerce. Direct-to-consumer sales of package goods could usher in a whole new era of digital marketing.