Technologist

This is Kiviak, a traditional winter foodstuff consumed by Greenlandic Inuits. It may look like a seal's carcass stuffed with whole, fermented birds because, well, it is. Trust me, this is one dish you'll want to eat outside. More » - Technologist

If you've ever tried to do so much as ride amble down the street on an old steel-frame bike, you know they're unwieldy. It's unbelievable what this rider is able to do on one. More » - Technologist

A giant metal palm tree branch crashed through an El Paso, Texas man's windshield, splashing glass in his face and coming inches from impaling him in the head. Why was there a giant metal palm frond crashing to earth? It fell from a T-Mobile cell tower dressed up as a tree. More » - Technologist

Amazon has the Google-TV enabled Sony NSZ-GT1 Blu-ray player on sale for only $203, with free shipping. - Technologist

Dieter Bohn / The Verge: iOS apps and the address book: who has your data, and how they're getting it  —  Over the course of the past week, a firestorm has erupted in the world of iOS apps, thanks to the discovery that Path was uploading data from your iPhone's address book without asking for explicit permission. - Technologist

A Seattle-based artist etches personalized designs on the battery doors of Galaxy Nexuses through IndieGoGo. - Technologist

Tim Conneally / BetaNews: Curtains for LightSquared?  NTIA says GPS interference is unfixable  —  LightSquared, the aspiring 4G wireless network built in the “L band” of spectrum has been under fire from the GPS industry for the last year over the interference the experimental network was shown to create for GPS receivers. - Technologist

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: Reid Hoffman's New Business Book Tells Everyone to Act Like Entrepreneurs  —  Reid Hoffman is a nice-guy billionaire who founded LinkedIn, was an early backer of many of the most important Internet companies of the last decade and now also invests professionally as a Sand Hill Road venture capitalist. - Technologist

SanDisk announces its latest solid-state drive, the SanDisk Extreme SSD. - Technologist

Mat Honan / Gizmodo: Happy Valentine's Day, Tech Bloggers  —  There's been so much hate and self-righteous indignation in tech blog circles lately.  Name calling.  Ugly accusations.  Petty bickering.  It's even divided good friends, brother against brother.  Can't we all just get along? - Technologist

Hewlett-Packard and Intel are rethinking processor upgrades in servers, coming up with a new chip-slotting technique that could reduce the chance of errors, and... - Technologist

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: AT&T's data traffic is actually doubling annually  —  AT&T is now claiming on its Innovation Space blog that its mobile data traffic is doubling every year, rather than increasing by the more modest 40 percent annual rate it detailed in recent investor and analyst calls. - Technologist

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Why Would You Pay $12 a Month for Free TV?  Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia Explains.  —  If you want to watch TV that comes from one of the broadcast channels, you've got options: You can get it for free, using an old-fashioned over-the-air antenna.  Or you can pay for it as part of your cable TV package. - Technologist

The video streaming company is coming out with another original TV series, this one called "Orange is the New Black," as it continues its ongoing tug-of-war with HBO. - Technologist

Guess who knows what's best for the future of Facebook? It's certainly not public investors looking to cash in on "social" 8 years after Facebook started. That's why those same investors should actually be happy about a warning from Institutional Shareholder Services noting that Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg will own roughly 57% of the company after the IPO. He's a lot more likely to steer the company to long-term mega-profitability than they are. - Technologist