Well, you had to wait a few months, but you can now read Popular Mechanic's useful article for budding inventors "How to Become an Inventor" (which I talked about on my July 9th blog "Inventors!! Get Your Hot Links!!").
This was the meatiest of the "inventing" links I left, but had to recommend you buy the magazine at the time. I knew they'd eventually be posting it on their site, so I felt the obligation to hunt it down after the fact. Now, read it for free (clicking the link below) from the confines of your cell, laptop, desktop, wii, ipad, etc...wherever you now lasso the web!
Those astute at these publishing style reindeer games, will notice they changed the headline from the original hard copy issue "How to Be an Inventor" to "How to Become an Inventor".
Nice try, PM, but you need to disguise your trail more...
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/gonzo/how-to-become-an-inventor-in-5-steps?click=main_sr