Links for November 23rd.

Fresh links for November 23rd:

• Buy Bookrest by Lars Nilsson for Paug. Worldwide shipping!
• CSI Image Enhancer – Neatorama
• Amazon.com: Official Nintendo and Star Wars Wii Darth Vader Sensor Bar Holder: Nintendo Wii: Video Games
• Evolution: One Leg Leads to Another
• Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches – Freedom leg – Gizmodo
• "I Love You, Mr. Star Wars" And Other Famous Movie Quotes – Supercuts – Videogum
• The Periodic Table
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Mmmvelopes.

Envelopes + bacon. When you lick them to seal them, you don’t get that tired old taste, you get the flavor of bacon in your mouth. Looks like it’s time to start writing snail mail letters again!

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Stormtroopers 365.

One photo of stormtrooper toys in funny situations per day, for a year. Hilarity.

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A Story Before Bed.

A Story Before Bed is a lovely new website aimed at anyone in a child’s life who wants to read them a bedtime story but can’t physically be there. The way it works is pretty simple. You go to the website with a camera-enabled computer, pick a book from the shelf, and use the website to record video of yourself reading it. You pay $6.99 for the recording, and you only pay for it if you’re happy with the results. Parents in the military can even sign up for free coupon codes, so they don’t have to pay a cent to give their child the gift of reading. This is a great idea, especially going into the holiday season.

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What the Movie.

If you’re into movies (and really, who’s not?, well except maybe Jason Fried, who has no time for fiction), you’ll love this site. Its main focus is showing you stills from movies and letting you guess which movie it’s from by typing your guess into a blank. You can comment on the movie, see how many other people have guessed correctly, get points that unlock different parts of the site, and more!

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Autistic artist draws scenes from memory.

When Steven Wiltshire sees something, he can go back and draw it, down to the smallest detail (like the number of windows on a building.) So awesome.

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Links for October 27th.

Fresh links for October 27th:

• SHOW OFF HOME | SHOW OFF –
• YouTube – Now THAT’s a close call. –
• HSN Breaks TV, Showing Need To Firmly Attach Your Wii Accessories [Funny] –

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Pear Note.

I absolutely love Pear Note. Wow. I really wish that I could go back in time to when I was in college and hand myself a laptop with this app on it. It would have saved me so much time and frustration that it would almost have immediately paid for itself. I literally do not attend any meetings without my laptop/Pear Note now. It’s made my notes useful, where previously I’d feel really good about the notes I was taking, then I’d go back and try to use them to review and not be able to figure out what they meant.

So why is it so amazing? Just about everyone who wants to remember important information takes notes in class or meetings. Those of us who’ve realized that we can’t possibly remember everything that was said have probably added audio recording to the equation. That way, we can go back and listen to a conference/meeting/class and have all of the information we need because we have every word that was said. The problem with simple audio recording is that you have to skip around or waste time listening to parts of the recording that aren’t pertinent to what you’re looking up at a given moment.

Pear Note takes audio recording a few steps further, and it makes all of the difference. It synchronizes every keystroke of your typed notes with the audio recording, and completely changes the game. By doing this, it turns note-taking into a much less nerve wracking experience. Where normally you’d be trying to type as much as possible to make sure you don’t miss anything, by using Pear Note you only have to annotate the recording. This allows you to pay more attention to the subject at hand, only pausing to type the most important points so that you can review them easily later. When you’re reviewing your notes later, you can literally just click on words that you’ve typed, and Pear Note will play back the audio at that point, starting from 10 seconds back. Awesome. Also, as your recording plays, Pear Note highlights the letters/words as you type them.

Pear Note also gives you full control over fonts, sizes, colors, easy shortcuts for bolding, italics, underlining and more. You can copy and paste hyperlinks directly into it and they remain clickable, and gives you easy highlighting ability in whatever color you wish.

And that’s just scratching the surface of what Pear Note can do. It can record video, import slides (Powerpoint, Keynote, and PDF) from a presentation and sync itself up with those as well. It has searching built in, so you can search through all of the notes you’ve previously taken. Imagine going to a meeting and taking notes with Pear Note. Then, 2 weeks later when a co-worker is asking asks you how many sprockets were supposed to go on that new widget, you can just open Pear Note, search through your notes for “sprockets”, open the right set of notes, then click on the phrase “number of sprockets” and it’ll play the audio from that point. So awesome.

If you have a regular need to take notes and you own a portable Mac, I can’t recommend Pear Note enough. It’s $39.99 and is well worth the money, due to the time and aggravation you’ll save yourself when you go back to review your notes. It’ll truly make your notes useful.

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Shopping Losts.

Shopping Losts is a collection of found shopping lists, converted into beautiful works of type. Pretty cool.

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Russian Doll measuring cups.

Okay, these are completely awesome. Matryoshka dolls + measuring cups = measuring cups that you can leave in plain sight on the counter! $16. Wow.

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Links for October 19th

Fresh links for October 19th:

• Canned Air Missile – a set on Flickr –
• Inhabitat » New Super Efficient Pharox 60 LED Bulbs Last for 25 Years –
• High Resolution 16 Things You Never Knew About the Automobile Pictures, Photos, Images: 16 Things You Never Knew About The Automobile id:100230762 – The Car Connection –
• Buy This: Cassette Tape Measure from GAMA-GO.
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Lunch Skins.

Lunch Skins are the brainchild of 3 moms who are trying to be more green and sustainable in their daily living. Rather than continually buying/sending their children to school with the same old zip locking plastic bags, which get used once then thrown away, they made moisture proof, grease proof, easily washable bags out of a food-safe German fabric, threw some fun designs on them, and dubbed them Lunch Skins! Pretty cool.

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SlouchBack.

This is totally the Slanket all over again. Someone comes up with a nifty idea, and in about a year there’ll be a Snuggback, a Freedom Sloucher and a Slouchcoat. The SlouchBack is a $99 inflatable cushion with drink holders and arms that turns any bed into a sofa. It’s a simple, great idea.

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Canvaspop.

After a dearth of cool things to mention, the last few days have been filled with awesome product/web app announcements. One of the best of the bunch I’ve seen is Canvaspop. I can’t wait to find a reason to use this service. They take any photo, however big or small, and turn it into a work of art, printed across one or more pieces of canvas. Awesome!

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PhotoSketch: creates a “photoshopped” image consisting of elements from numerous photos, but based on a simple annotated sketch.
Brinno Digital Peephole Viewer – When I buy a house, I totally want one of these on each outside door.
Keyboard Blackboard Wall Enter Schticker – both a blackboard and a door sign. Pretty neat.

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Links for October 1st

Fresh links for October 1st from 02:49 to 02:50:

• A Peek at Mel Gibson and His Beaver – Cinematical – This has got to be some of the funniest marketing for a movie that I have ever seen. I laughed for a couple of minutes after seeing this.
• ohnotheydidnt: Did somebody say……..wood? – More Mel Gibson + the puppet
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Persistence, Jury-Rigging, and Ingenuity Against All Odds – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – Gizmodo –

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Links for September 29th.

Fresh links for September 29th:

• Red Dust – a gallery on Flickr –
• A fruit of two halves: Meet the red and green apple with a split personality | Mail Online –

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Long-lost Brothers .

Two brothers grow up in 2 different adoptive families, not too far from each other. Eventually, they live in the same town, but don’t know that the other exists. They both end up working at the same company, riding in the same delivery truck everyday. Eventually, they discover they are brothers. Then, their half-sister shows up! This story is completely crazy, but completely true, and also completely awesome.

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Will Return Clock.

This clock made me laugh out loud. It looks just like one of those “Will Return” boards that people sometimes have in their offices or in front of their places of business. However, it’s actually a clock, so if you set it a few minutes ahead, you never have to come back. Funny!

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Links for September 23rd.

Fresh links for September 23rd:

• ICETRIS Ice Tray –
• Awesomely BAD engagement photos –
• Google changes its logo to ASCII art when you search for "ascii art" –

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Aardvark.

I’ve got to thank my friend David for introducing me to my new favorite web and iPhone app this past week: Aardvark. It harnesses the power of social networks and their collective knowledge to give you answers to just about any sort of question that you might have within 5 minutes, using people you trust. You sign up, connect with some people you know, or just ask a question!

It works over IM, Push notifications on the phone, and via the web, so you can get questions answered wherever you happen to be. You can also sign up to answer questions about things that you are knowledgeable about, so you can help answer others’ questions. Oh, and the best part is, it’s totally free. Want to join my network? Here’s a link!

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