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Improve your memory. Read better, faster. Think out loud.

For those of us who still dream of our green-backlit little friends. (I should probably recharge my MessagePad’s battery…)

Finally, a source for the world’s finest-tipped pen, the Uniball Signo 0.18mm! Also a source for the 0.38mm version of my current favorite pen, the Pilot G-2.

Shoot like a Marine. Well, at least have the same gear as some of the world’s most feared marksmen. S&B’s 3-12x50mm PM II Military scope is now standard-issue for USMC sniper rifles.

A video camera anyone can use. Really. Anyone. Even your grandmother. 1 GB of storage, good for 60 minutes of 640 x 480 video. One-touch recording. About 122 bucks. It’s a video camera you can easily carry with you anywhere.

I am way impressed.

The odd-looking but operator-approved Duostock is a must-have for those in close quarters battle situations. Consider a purchase if you have a loved one serving in a combat zone. (Or if you just want a really comfortable stock for your own AR.)

Since I cannot make use of our pool right now, thanks to the busted foot, perhaps this would be a fun project…

Free fonts from pop culture: movies, music, games, and random corporate life.

“The web’s top 500 free fonts!”

Huge collection of more than 8,000 free fonts and dingbats.

I don’t spend any time on IRC, but if you do, this looks like a nice Mac OS X client.

Author Steven Poole gives up on Microsoft Word, which I continue to maintain is overkill for 90 percent of the word processing population. Like killing a fly with a cruise missile…

A free, lean word processor for Mac OS X by James Hoover.

James Hoover’s essay on the thinking that went in to the creation of Bean, notably as a successor for WriteNow, as a lean, mean, writing machine.

An article from February 2001 by Marten van de Kraats, in which he details the need for a lean word processor on the newly born Mac OS X. Marten was a huge fan of WriteNow (as was I). This served as James Hoover’s inspiration for Bean.

Jos Buivenga has some outstanding fonts, and while he should be charging for them, he offers them as donationware instead. I love Fertigo!

Until Apple decides to give us this obvious, brain-dead feature for free, you can get whatever ringtones you want on to your iPhone with iToner. $15, free to try for 30 days (some features not available during trial)

Somewhere in this house is the Mont Blanc pen my wife received as a law school graduation gift. She doesn’t use it. Until I find it for myself, I’ll be content with my G-2s.

For soon-to-be moms and dads. Wish I would’ve thought out something like this when the little phisch was in diapers.

The domain and title are pretty self explanatory.

Thinking of switching to Mac? (You should.) Just bought a new Mac? (Hurray!) This site will be very helpful to you either way.

Print these out and cover those new textbooks. I wish we would have had cool art like these when I was a young Star Wars geek…