Well well it’s Friday, December 21st 2007 and here’s a few of the things I’ve run into this week.

Geek Chic - Indeed, it’s a Space Invaders themed scarf complete with QR codes. What’s a QR code? Look it up¹.

The Most Expensive Drink At Starbucks -  Spoiler: It’s a 13 shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel. It cost the writer $13.76. Those are the stupid/silly blog posts that I love.²

Got iTunes? Get Addons - Lifehacker lists the 23 best addons for iTunes - from cover art, to keeping synced, to tagging songs.

DIY Fisheye lens - Have a spare shiny Christmas ornament around? Use it as a fish eye lens to take some 360 degree shots

Paper Toys -  CustomPaperToys.com makes, well, custom paper toys - they offer them up for sale as kits, and look quite stunning considering they can’t get wet.³

Rock Star Prof - At 71, MIT physics professor  Walter Lewin is an internet sensation, thanks to the school’s OpenCourseWare.

Clocks - Pricey, but this clock is just so cute and retro.

That’s the links for today - and the commentary is really more like a question - should I begin video blogging? I’m thinking about it - once a week. I took a little phone video awhile back and it sparked my interest. Hrm.

1. Or make your own [↩]
2. Which is why Cockeyed.Com is so sweet - thanks for existing, Rob [↩]
3. Oh, you can also buy a kit to create an AK-47 out of paper. Seriously. [↩]

Yeah, so I didn’t get this posted in time, but here it is today. It’ll be a busy week, but I’ll see if I can’t get a few things posted.

It’s Friday, December 14th 2007 and here’s a smattering of links that I’ve come across this last week.

Best of 2007 Podcasts¹- At least according to iTunes. The noteables are Ask A Ninja, Brave New Films, MAKE Magazine and This American Life. Congrats guys.

Spectrum Z510 - It’s all I really want for Christmas.

Extreme Business Cards - A DIY Auto-dialing business card. Prove to the world you’re then alpha geek.

Subway Burlesque - A group of women get together and take on a challenge to ‘Dance sexy in a public place’. You’ll need a pole to dance on, and what better place then the subway? And what better subway system then NYC?

It’s Me, Every Girl Ever - A wonderful Craigslist “Best Of”

Pict.Fm - An awesome Last.Fm addon, it creates an animated avatar based on artists you’ve listened to recently. How sweet!

Windows Feedback Program - In exchange for sacrificing your privacy, get yourself a free copy of Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate, Encarta, or Trips and Streets². Sweet, sort of!

Porn for Girls, Written By Girls - It’s a parody, SFW (Maybe)

1. You need iTunes installed to see it, though [↩]
2. Except I read right after that that they stopped offering Vista - but I can’t find it on the web [↩]

And we’re off, it’s the newest feature that I just decided upon, the Friday Link-O-Rama. So sit down, grab a beer, and check out the things I liked this week.

Microsoft Embarrassed about computerized Santa - MS created a neat little Santa-bot that youngsters could send text messages to with what they want. A young girl (I assume mentally challenged) kept asking the virtual Kringle about eating pizza, to which it finally responded “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to talk about something else”¹

10 Geeky Websites Where the Real Geeks Gather - Ok, not entirely sure how true this is. Some of these I go to regularly (Hack-A-Day) while others I’ve never heard of, so this is definitely not a “You’re not a geek unless you go to all of these”

The Treadmill of Poverty - Welfare, as it currently works, actually punishes people attempting to improve their situation. But we don’t want to give people a free ride - how can we balance this?

LOL Creashun - Ur Doing It Wrong

Buy your own flux capacitor - Great Scott! Delorean and 80s power ballad sound track not included.

Octopart - Greatest place ever to find electronics. If you’re looking for it, they’ll tell you where to find it.

IDK, My BFF Jill? - 15 years ago today the very first SMS message was sent. Those bastards.

It’s the 66th anniversary of the attack at Pearl Harbor.

Tom Jones will be here in March! Zomg!

I have a ton of personal projects I want to work on, but Team Fortress 2 keeps pulling me back in!²

Side Note: Some Microsoft software is damn near impossible to install without a prayer³

Robert Fisher gives me way to many kudos in his most recent blog entry, but I will attempt to be humble and accept it.

Healthy Nutritious food is 15 times more expensive then ‘junk’ food.  - I’m not fat, I’m thrifty?

1. That sounds like the final response to a turing bot - the name of which escapes me right now - any help? [↩]
2. Oh, I’ll be in the top 10 soon. Very soon [↩]
3. I’m talking to you, Operations Manager 2007 [↩]

A smattering of links this week - here’s the cool, the weird, and the broken.

Grocery Guide - GroceryGuide.Com helps you compare prices on food in your area. Sure, Cub might have the lowest price on beef, but everything else is higher then at Super Target. These guys help you find the price, what’s on sale, and just how to cook it once you’ve got it. Learn more about it.

Google Mobile Maps - Google Mobile Maps announced a new feature the other day, the “My Location” button now uses triangulation between cell towers to figure out where you are. Or, in my case, no matter where you try it it only says “Your current location is unavailable”. Maybe you’ll have better luck¹².

Going from 36A to 36DD garners more attention - whew knew? The Daily Mail has an interesting piece by Clover Stroud about a prosthetic ‘instant boob job’ that took her from a petite 36A to an overflowing handful of 36DD. Both men and women treated her differently. Yes, we knew that already, but it’s still an interesting read.

Bench made out of 1600 pencils. And you can remove and use them individually, then put em back. Sweet!

Operation Cat Drop - In Borneo in the 1950s, the World Health Organization sprayed DDT³ to kill the mosquitoes. It did its job very well, and the malaria rate dropped as a result. But, the DDT infected insects were eaten by geckos, which were in turn eaten by cats, which then died. So the WHO dropped 14,000 cats by parachute to the people of Dayak. Yay WHO!

Transit Librarian - One of my new favorite blogs, as found over at MNSpeak⁴. Tales from a bus driver for Metro Transit. I really dig people stories like these and as I was once a professional driver⁵, I can also empathize a bit.

1. If you’re curious, I’m using Google Mobil Maps version 2.0.0.11 on Windows Mobile 5.0 [↩]
2. Drat! This comment on SlashDot had a fix that made his work. Didn’t work for me. Oh bother. I bet it’s Verizon’s fault. [↩]
3. Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane [↩]
4. Here’s a trackback link just so I can use my footnote reference thing again [↩]
5. Go Big Orange! [↩]