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Online mileage tracker. You can also report to it via your mobile device, or Twitter.
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A case for the iPhone, hand carved from a single piece of wood. Cases for the second-generation iPod nano and fifth-generation iPod also available.
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Kindle is Amazon’s new ebook reader. In addition to reading books on it, you can read newspapers, magazines, and blogs, all of which cost extra. I’m not overwhelmed.
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Web nerdery for future self-reference.
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For future self-reference: “BookSurge offers complete publishing, inventory-free fulfillment and online distribution services for independent publishing.”
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Lucasfilm needs to pay this artist some moolah, throw Jake Lloyd and Alec Guinness in to the artwork, and sell a poster-size version on StarWarsShop.com.
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The two billionth–yes, that’s billion with a B–photo has been uploaded to Flickr.
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Cheaper and more compact than Apple’s charger for the iPod.
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The Always-On Wrap-Up is a camera case with attaches to your point-and-shoot’s tripod mount, and wraps around the camera to protect it. (Though there is little to no protection on the sides.)
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“[P]rofessional grade shotgun mic” for “any Camcorder that has the standard camera-shoe fitting and utilizes a stereo mini jack for audio output.”
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Backpack-toting road warriors may want to check out this exo-shell pack. There’s a briefcase version, too.
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“This package contains a BBEdit codeless language module for the simple to-do list format used by TaskPaper. It is intended for Mac users who want to edit their TaskPaper lists in BBEdit from time to time…”
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If you carry a shoulder bag, you may want to look at Skooba’s Superbungee Strap as a replacement for your bag’s strap. It features a “high-density, floating bungee/shock cord ring which acts as a shock absorber, minimizing carrying shock…”
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“[L]ets users carry a single compact power adapter to charge iPod and many popular mobile phones at home or on the road.”
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Affix a tag to your electronic gadget, register it on the zReturn web site, and should it be lost, and found by a honest member of society, they can log in to the zReturn web site and contact you for the device’s return.
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“The best league in college football this season is not the Big 12, or the always overrated Big Ten. Nor is it the Pac-10, where its handful of good teams has been tested twice or thrice.” And this comes from a guy in TEXAS, ladys and gents.
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Have a custom jigsaw puzzle made from the front page of The New York Times, or from a U.S. Geological Survey map, centered on whatever you prefer, like, your house, for instance, or a famous landmark.
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Duncan’s promotion of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono over Monaco as his preferred monospaced font in Terminal generates a lively discussion of monospaced fonts in the comments.
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The Deja Vu fonts are based on the open source Bitstream Vera Sans family.
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“[A] TrueType version of Anonymous 9, a freeware Macintosh bitmap font developed in the mid-90s by Susan Lesch and David Lamkins. It was designed as a more legible alternative to Monaco, the mono-spaced Macintosh system font.”
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$50-per-year kid-friendly search engine, supposed to help children avoid adult-oriented content while they search the web.
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Find a local FM frequency that’s not being used so you can get the most out of the FM transmitter you’re using with your iPod or iPhone to play tunes in your car or home stereo.
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Hugh MacLeod, of Gaping Void, interprets the Twitter mascot.
