A Doomworld Forum thread shared a few links about the original DOOM game. Two links were worth sharing and reading:

Dilbert comic strip and Savage Chickens comic strips show clever ideas

VideoSift shared an over 1.5 minutes YouTube video showing "Pumpktris is a fully playable version of Tetris built into a pumpkin, with 128 Light Emitting Diode (LEDs) for the display and the stem serving as a game controller.

Last month (way behind for this old BUSY overlord), Dark Roasted Blend showed "Olympic Flame Torches & Cauldrons: A Retrospective -- ... it's time to reflect on some of the greatest and most innovative Olympic designs. Each edition of the summer and winter Olympic Games has featured a cauldron, in which the Olympic flame is lit. The cauldron is actually a link to the games as they existed in ancient Greece and first became part of the modern Olympics at the Amsterdam Games in 1928. The torch relay was introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

Dark Horizons share the upcoming schedules for television/TV/telly series in United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom (U.K.) over the next two months -- "...

HardOCP and Mashable report that National Broadcast Company (NBC) Olympics web site will be airing a live feed of the XXX (not that, you perv(ert)s)/30th Olympics closing ceremony over the Internet at 4:00 PM EDT/1:00 PM PDT.

Yes, your overlord is way behind with Internet links, but they are still interesting. :( Neatorama shared Balladeer's Blog post that examines the various events that took place on other July 4th's

Boing Boing shares The New York Times' City Blog on "what happened was air-conditioning. Sort of. July 17 was the date on the blueprints for newfangled equipment to temper the air..."

TV.com has its fall/autumn 2012 television/TV preview with news, schedule, etc.

Chicken (remove AQFL to e-mail) just shared NBC 5 Dallas-Forth Worth's automat(ed/ic) image gallery (static one ugly web page with thumbnails) that shows fifty-eight (58) photographs/photos. showing wipe outs from previous/past Olympic games

[H]ard|OCP shares American Pyrotechnics Association (APA)'s directory of state laws. It has an United States (U.S.) map that shows which states allow and does not allow fireworks, the fireworks laws are in each specific state, etc.

Slithy Tove's Neatorama comment mentioned an almost three years old New York Times blog saying that "the white doves released during wedding ceremonies are usually not doves at all, but white homing pigeons, which are specially trained by professionals to return home.

/. mentions today is Atari's 40th birthday, and shares a Time article with photographs/photos.