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Water powered calcualtor – novelty item – Link.

Interesting high-speed video clips – Link.

Whatever you type in, it shows in multicolored balls – Bokeh Type- Link.

Nudge is a virtual-instrument widget designed for self-expressive online music making & sharing. It’s fun and simple to use. Link.

List of things to do when you are bored – Link.

National flags made out of food – Link.

‘Never Again’ is a novel in which no word occurs more than once. Link.

88 counties in Ohio. 88 keys in a piano. A musical map ensues. Link.

Why I don’t have a girlfriend – Link.

8 robots that do all the jobs that you hate – Link.

Officer Dudley, Purveyor of Truth, Outfitter of Justice, Importer/Exporter of Righteousness can send cards showing what you think of someone – anonymously – Link.

How to let go of possessions – Minimalism – Link.

How to use your linkedin profile – a checklist – Link.

If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, then you may be interested in reading this. Link.

A Periodic table of visualization methods – Link.

Ultra luxury theatre in Sao Paulo Brazil – where popcorn comes with olive oil – Link.

Scott Berkun Essays – Work vs progress – measuring progress vs measuring work – Link.

NPR’s Rob Sachs talks about life’s sticky situations and how turn them into an opportunity for adventure, growth, or at the very least, laughter.” Like how to propose, or if that doesn’t work, what to do when you run into your ex (Mp3) (turns out being calm and collected beats out feigning not to have made eye contact), how to talk to strangers (Mp3), sing a lullaby (by interviewing Rob Springfield), or how to, you know, avoid, um, Verbal Ticks. Each podcast episode is an interview with one kind of expert or another. Some posts also go on the Monkey See blog as well as a facebook fan page.

Some of the world’s most weird prisons – Link.

When cute animals make you angry, you start a blog and make your ideas known to the world. Link.

7 thoughts that are bad for you – LiveScience – Link.

“Dry humping has been recognized as an act of cock terrorism by the international committee of penis affairs. But why it hasn’t yet been banned from modern society… I don’t know.” Link.

Squawkfox – 6 words that make your resume suck – ‘responsible, experience, team player’ etc. – Link.

16 wicked easy word-of-mouth marketing tactics – Link.

10 irrational human behaviors and how to exploit them commercially. – Link.

I turned down sex because I had to poop. – Link.

Make your own Britney And You Pics for a friend with Britney Spears And You – http://apps.facebook.com/britney_fb/index.php

The Complete TechRepublic Demotivator poster collections – Link.

How to give a lousy presentation – ways to make a bad impression- Link.

My Middle name is Satan. – interesting short read – Link.

Dirty vendor tricks in corporate IT – Link.

How much radiation does your cell phone emit? – Link.

If you can tell names of cheese from names of fonts you can try this guessing – Link.

If you’re a guy with a penis then I need you – funny posting on craigslist. Link.

Chinese chef forms noodles by hand – Youtube 04:40 Link.

How to live with just 100 things – TIME – Link.

5 financial rules for startups – Link.

Six word Stories – not that interesting – may be more like ‘tell short story with 1 tweet (140 chars) – Link.

Dividing ‘free’ and ‘paid’ features in ‘freemium’ products – Link.

Entertaining, humorous, funny RFC’s – Link.

Best resource ever seen on logical fallacies- Link.

Chicken Nugget Lemon Tooty is a blog featuring selected drawings by Isaac age 10; Grace, 9; and Lily, who is 6.

How men and women think during argument – funny yet true. flowchart, not an article – Link.

Predictive personalized news – DailyPerfect – Link.

Driving San Francisco to Washington – time lapse video 4m:35s- Link.

An essay on productivity and procrastination – I didnt read it in full for I thought it would affect my productivity so I procastinating reading this. Link.

“Nowadays, a balanced diet is when every McNugget weighs the same!” and other food-for-thought Alfred E Neumann quotes – Link.

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions – a visualization – Link.

Toys that you would not buy your children – starts with a pole dancer doll – Link.

Technology allows people with JetPack to fly over surfaces of water using water itself, as a form of water sports – Link.

Create and share diagrams written verbally – Link.

Augmented reality apps proliferate – Link. – its where you show your iphone camera onto a street and it immediately tells you which house has been listed for sale, who is twttering from where, etc.

Glossary of sexual and scatological (?) euphemisms – Link.

A zoomable map/visuo-spatial representation of books of amazon – link.

Ways to destroy the internet – Link.

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Love the concept: Track supply chains of how the product you are using arrived, from where, how and when: I imagine something like, Made in China, plot on map, Carried by Inter Express Line in container, reached Shanghai, Travel by sea, 10 days, reached some port in Canada and blah ablah – Link.

Expressing yourself using punched cards – Link.

My friend had to write a letter to a soldier in Iraq – funny – Link.

Nerd Venn Diagram – Diff between dweeb, dork, geek. nerd/ Link.

7 steps of a research strategy – Link.

An 18 minute plan for managing your day – Harvard Business Review – Link.

How to create a profitable freemium startup (with downloadable spreadsheet model) – Link.

Does this secret code to change traffic lights really work? Video 0:39 – Link.

Are our brains getting hard wired to use Google ,twitter and the like? Link.

Five free business tools for Mac users. Link.

Personalize currency notes with your own pic – Link.

On the lines of “people of walmart” photo series – Partly Boring; SLYT; Ikea Heights is an online video series (secretly shot inside the Burbank Ikea Store). Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4.

The Weak Man Argument or Getting Duped: How the Media Messes with Your Mind. A variant of the ‘Straw Man fallacy,’ the ‘weak man’ doesn’t misstate a rival’s position like a ’straw man,’ but instead chooses “the opposition’s weakest (or one of its weakest) arguments or proponents for attack.” Originally proposed by Robert Talisse and Scott Aikin here. (pdf)

Now you can buy sunglasses with hidden spy camera in them – easier than using handycam for recording a party or travel episode? Link.

Speed reading is more like skimming or linear reading – you scan the topmost half of words quickly trying to grasp the meaning as fast as you can – I believe I am a fast ‘absorber’ not a speed reader – for I grasp non-linearly, look here and there on a web page to understand the concept quickly – now they have got a term for it – photoreading? Link.

If you liked Wordle’s word clouds you may also want to try WordSift – visualize text – Link.

50 things that are being killed by the internet – Link.

Hardware hacked into geek fashion – examples of tech geek jewelry. – Link.

If you are finding a hard time trying to find the nearest bathroom and if you remembered to pack the pocket urinal then you are safe – urine becomes gel in this apparatus – Link.

What’s special about this number – a collection of numbers 0-9999 and their special properties (all one liners) – Link.

28 Rules men wish women would learn. – Link.

Wedding invitation showcase: 45+ excellent examples. – Link.