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Okay, I love my iPod too, but, seriously…

 
HowStuffWorks comes to our rescue again with some weird … stuff.
Check out John Fuller’s article entitled Bizarre iPod Accessories.  Most of them seem pretty tame, but you’ll have to check out the Bullet Proof iPod Case, the iPod Gloves and the iPod Thong…and, of course, the iPod Toilet [...]

 
FunnyCoolStuff.com does have that.  Funny…cool…stuff.
 
I found some amazing digital art there.  Here’s one of the images. 

 
 Look here to see more.

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I’ve noticed it myself.  I can find Paul McCartney’s tunes, but I can’t find tunes by The Beatles on iTunes.  What’s the deal?
 
Conspicuously absent from iTunes is the catalog of the Beatles music. Apple has clashed time and again with Apple Corps over the years, long before the advent of iTunes. Now each time Apple [...]

Anyone run across Lala.com?  A friend told me a bout it and, at first blush, it looks pretty cool.  
You can play an entire song on the web once free.  You can see other people’s suggestions of cool new music, you can download music from Lala.  For 10 cents, you have unlimited play of a [...]

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Time magazine has complied a list of 2009’s 50 best inventions…
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The end of the year is always a time to go back and review the year in pictures.  
And maybe play a little with the ones you took this year.
BigHugeLabs.com has a lot of fun stuff you can use to play with your images.
We have a lot of fun stuff to play with like our Motivational [...]

Perhaps you know exactly what an RSS Feed is and how to get them…you have a feed reader and have information you care about coming into your computer on a daily basis. 
If so, move along.  This post isn’t for you.
If RSS feeds are a mystery to you and seem like way too much trouble BUT, [...]

…with a Gravatar.
 
What’s a Gravatar?  I’m glad you asked!!!
 
“Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?”
The image your choose for your [...]

Want a quick look at what’s happening with topics you’re interested in?  Try Alltop.com
“Websites and blogs for any given topic and display the headlines of the five most recent stories. When you place the cursor over a headline, we display part of the story so that you can decide if you’d like to read it. [...]

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Are you blocked from Facebook at work?  Twitter?  MySpace?  YouTube?

Shel Holtz writes a blog called A Shel of My Former Self that he sub-labels “blogging at the intersection of communication and technology”.  

In his October 7th post he talks about “a study released last month by the Robert Half Technology, 54% of the sample of [...]

Have you tried the new search engine BING?

I gave it a quick look but haven’t delved into it yet.  What I saw looked cool asthetically but I couldn’t tell much of a difference at first blush.
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted on his blog on June 1st Bing Doesn’t Suck.  Bing got a rough start — one user [...]

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YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.

YouTube has more than 100,000,000 videos.
 
 
In case you care, here’s how it works.

(Article thanks to our friends at HowStuffWorks.com.)

(Statistics thanks to Social Revolution Video)

Google Wave is coming…
 
What is a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document.  People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone [...]

“Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on.”
Stan Schroeder recently wrote a post on this subject for Mashable.  He [...]

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Time.com came out with their 50 Best Websites…it’s worth a look!

“Clear out your bookmarks. You’re going to need the space for 50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.”

 
Flickr

California Coastline

Delicious

Metafilter

popurls

Twitter

Skype

Boing Boing

Academic Earth

OpenTable

Google

YouTube

Wolfram|Alpha

Hulu

Vimeo

Fora TV

Craiglook

Shop Goodwill

Amazon

Kayak

Netflix

Etsy

PropertyShark.com

Redfin

Wikipedia

Internet Archive

Kiva

ConsumerSearch

Metacritic

Pollster

Facebook

Pandora and Last.fm

Musicovery

Spotify

Supercook

Yelp

Visuwords

CouchSurfing

BabyNameWizard.com’s NameVoyager

Mint

TripIt

Aardvark

drop.io

Issuu

Photosynth

OMGPOP

WorldWideTelescope

Fonolo

Get High Now

Know Your Meme

Hey!  Check it out….a website that allows you to upload an image into several templates that are fun to play with.  You can also save them.  I have several that I use as my profile picture on Facebook.  
And it’s all free!  
Photofunia.com