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If I were to live in the world of social communities, I would reside on the border of Last.fm and Flickr, with a summer home in WoW. This geographical depiction of the most popular of social networks is a fun and playful ode to Web 2.0. The “Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest”, as it is titled, ...

What’s Apple gonna do with all that junk? All that junk in the next gen iPod’s trunk! I’ll tell you exactly what Apple is going to do. They’re going to drive us all crazy with the suspense until it’s released. A newly released patent suggests that the next iPod release will have a touch surface on its backside, with the ...

Let’s be realistic. If you’re sitting in front of a computer screen all day, chances are that your insides are slowly becoming a gelatinous blob of what use to be considered muscle. The Muscle Suit promises to increase the average human strength by using a cyborg exoskeleton. Soon, we too will have a chance to compete in strongest man competitions. ...

Haha, bad grades are so funny. As long as they aren’t our own bad grades. Let us all laugh at this kid’s D- paper. HA…HA. Giggling aside, these Comic Book Bubble Paper Clips are really friggen cool. The traditional paper clip gets a shakeup with its bubble design, like which is used for comic book dialog. Bad grades are funny ...

The on-going project by Howard Hallis, entitled The Picture of Everything, which is an attempt to draw, well, everything, in one large picture, has just gotten another addition added on to its massiveness. This time, Hallis opted to add a section for cartoon characters. This new add-on features, like, totally every major cartoon character ever created. Or at least thats ...

Those of you who live in urban areas will know exactly what we are talking about when we bring up those tree protector cages that cities put up to protect the tree’s precious trunk. Here’s an idea to make these protectors functional for us non-chlorophyll producing beings as well. This mutation on the original protector idea adds a nice little ...

This Cork Chair continues the trend of building furniture with unorthodox items. This chair is made of logs made of corks. There’s really only so much that can be said about something like this. So let’s just let the image do the talking, shall we? — Andrew Dobrow Link [via]

Thanko has released info about their newest attempt at creating a USB Radio. As you can tell, this time around, they at least have a better looking design, with a sleek white finish. The USB AM/FM Radio is considerably larg as peripherals go, but the quality and performance prove to be worth the size. Its external antennae, which is visually ...

When you think of comfort, what are one of the first things you think of to lay your head on, apply directly to the forehead? Well, I dunno about you, but one of the first things that pops into MY head is fresh salmon. Thank goodness that someone else feels the same since now there is a Fresh Salmon Pillow. ...

That old expression “Go fly a kite”, which is basically a nice way to go tell people to go f*ck themselves, is brought to mind with this Cursor Kite. Since the kite string is almost invisible to the human eye the kite just looks like a real-life floating cursor, which is just beyond awesome. The Cursor Kite reminds us of ...