Category — Cool Stuff

BookMooch:
At the meeting he told me about BookMooch which just launched today.

BookMooch is very cool.
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yep, it is cool

Please don’t send me Microsoft Word documents — Tristan Miller:
Please don’t send me Microsoft Word documents

Most likely you have been directed to this document because
you have attempted to e-mail me a document in Microsoft Word
format. I would like to explain to you why I am probably not
able to access this document, why you should reconsider
sending Word documents to people, and what better alternatives
are available for document exchange over the Internet.

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great page, excellent idea.

Well, this place is pretty packed, and I Think it is smaller than the soho store. there are some <a href=”http://www.t-mobilepictures.com/7076872″>some pics on my moblog</a>. more or less just todays pics, yesterdays were from elmhurst in queens and such.

ianhenderson.org – megazoomer:
Megazoomer makes windows full-screen. Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again. Like Graffiti, you have to download SIMBL in order for it to work.

/Message: Edglings: A Well-Ordered Humanism and The Future Of Everything:
Here’s some thoughts on the emerging characteristics of web culture: the glue that holds Edglings — and through them, everything else — together:

These facets of society are arrayed in no particular order, and are strongly mutually reinforcing. They share, at the core, a strong predisposition to reject centralized authority, whether in business, goverment, media, or religion. The web allows us to change all the major axes of life, and to work our way onto a substantively different cultural ethos than what has preceded it, specifically the structures of life and work that have been thrown up by the industrial revolution and its aftermath.

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stowe boyd has some insights into a phenomenal he calla ‘edgelings’… to me it looks remarkably like postmodernity combined with a more personal informationalism and consumerism.

Pete H’s Homemade Air Conditioner:
PETE’S HOMEMADE AIR
CONDITIONER

Credit goes out to Pete H. in
sunny England for this great build. This version of the homemade air
conditioner removes the need to drain water outside by using an
aquarium pump, and sits on a rotating base.
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brilliant.

BOM:
The Bacon of the Month Club is the greatest of all gifts. I’m not making that up. I get calls from customers all the time that tell me this. In my humble opinion no other club in the universe gives you as much pleasure and sheer delight as The Bacon of the Month Club. The Bacon of the Month Club is the go-to gift for that person in your life who loves bacon, who has everything or who has very little. Join for yourself. Give yourself the gift of bacon.

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the greatest of gifts! it must be better than freedom, than happiness, than a grandson or granddaughter… etc. etc. which is quite a feat.

My Robot Brain Needs Beer:

Leslie Powell:

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the robots are missing!

Paper Airplanes – the best origami paper planes to fold and fly:
Best Paper Airplanes .com is a free site that illustrates how to make unique folded paper planes that you’ll find nowhere else
- because these ten models are original, copyrighted designs. Some are easy to make, some are
flying origami as well as paper aircraft, but they’re all fun to fold and fly.
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i tend to make paper airplanes out of any rejection letters that i receive. it seems to be the ultimate treatment for good paper.

Pirate Squirrel Poem.:

PIRATE SKWERL
by skwerly scouts club
O pirate skwerl, o pirate skwerl,
Trying to take the great black pearl.
Musket fire all around,dead skwerls on the ground.
The pirate skwerls will fight for rum, rum, the lovely rum.
Pirate skwerl Prizm, will take a stand against the demon skwerl band.
Shooting left and right,the demon skwerls will stand to fight.
Prizm falls, Prizm dies, never again to see the blue sky.
Now the demon skwerls are using hooks,
Launching themselves to every nook.
Now the pirate skwerls send out their best,
Putting Chipper the Ripper to the test.
Chipper, slaying left and right, the demon skwerls have lost this fight.
Now the pirate skwerls break out the rum, WHOOZA,WHOOZA!
More squirrelly things at Scary Squirrel World – via Frozen-One via Neatorama

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aieeee, the squirrels are coming…..