Link to the Bottom: 19 of the 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: Bringing extensions to Google Chrome for Mac. Chrome has been a life-changer for me. Extensions will only improve that!

Saeed Jabbar: Say Hello To The Buzz Button. Google Didn’t Make It, So We Did. Just when you thought the retweet and facebook share icons didn’t take up enough real estate, here comes buzz.

David Zhang: What the World Eats Interesting and entertaining photographs based on the award-winning book.

Sam Taggart: How Y-Combinator Helped 172 Startups Take Off – With Paul Graham. Really fascinating and candid interview done by Andrew Warner with programmer, essayist, and founder of Y-Combinator, Paul Graham.

John Oates: Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million (Confirmed). Interesting article about how/why Google bought the social search service and how it will enhance their search engine.

Marcus Krzastek: Steak: How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steak into Gucci “Prime” Steak. Very interested to try this out. Bonus: Funny pictures/descriptions to explain.

Neil Sarkar: What ‘ThugLife’ can teach us about Twitter. The ’savvy’ marketing types that are ‘powering’ twitter are dismissing the people that are using it the most organically. Organic beats manufactured every time, so marketers should heed the words of Sec’y William Cleary in Wedding Crashers: ‘Nature always wins’.

Colette Corrica: Card Toss Game. Fun game to play when you need a break.

Keith Holjencin: The Interview Project. Austin Lynch, son of director David Lynch, and his team come up with an amazing collection of brief video interviews from around the United States to provide a glimpse into the life of each interviewee. I recommend the Batso interview as a good start to the 91 currently available. Tell me your favorite in the comments.

Joe Whitmarsh: Onion Ring More Popular Than Justin Bieber in Latest Facebook Meme.This just might be my favorite Facebook Meme. One also wonders can this pickle get more fans than Nickelback?

Jacquie Meehan: Test-Driving Domino’s New Pie. If you liked the old Domino’s, time to say arrivederci.

Caleb Brown: Vibram Five Fingers Shoes: The Barefoot Alternative. The best Five Fingers review I’ve ever read. I’ve had my pair for just under a year and I LOVE them.

Matt Sitomer: Don’t Like Product Placement? Here’s Why it’s your Fault. This sentence: “At some point, ads and shows might blur so much that the notion of a ‘commercial break’ becomes a silly, antiquated thing of the past.”

Mike Boyd: Meteorologist freakout. I would love to live in a world where all the news was reported in this fashion, ha! I wonder what this guy does when it becomes unbearably hot outside.

Sameer Tanakia: Mosquito Getting Killed By a Laser Bad ass…. “it was built out of parts found on eBay”

Zak Jacoby: Multicolr Search Lab Flickr Set. An interesting way to search for images.

Adam Kopec: Better User Experience Using Storytelling. How user experience professionals and designers are using storytelling to create compelling experiences that build human connections.

Stephanie Bagley: Guide to the Vancouver Olympics. 1. 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games start today, who will light the torch? 2. Men’s ice hockey will be a spectacular competition. 3.Awesome events like snowboard cross, skeleton and skicross–making it’s Olympic debut!

Jon Troutman: Chocolate Hearts Make for Healthy Hearts. Even if we don’t have a special someone to spend Valentine’s Day with, we can take comfort in knowing that our massive chocolate consumption is doing some good.