If you know me, you’d know I have an unexplainable fetish for squids. SylvanSF has this and more in their new lineup. Unfortunately there is only a few select stores that carry this furniture, but if you can find it, it might be worth it (and if you manage to get you hands on the squid trunk, you know Christmas IS just around the corner).
Just a quick update on the whole iPhone jailbreak thing. This is my current lockscreen on my phone. As you can see there’s weather, an agenda, and the number of new emails. You can also configure this to show number of missed calls and new SMS. The program is called Lockscreen Info and is available on Cydia. Winterboard is required to theme as you wish (including my minimal unlock swipe), and there are various programs that allow you to remove your clock (I’m using Clock Hide). Additionally, check out Popup Blocker, which can remove the redundant “missed calls” popup.
Hopefully this will at least help smooth over those who are gripped over no Android on Bell’s new network (Adam). Keeping things just that much more customizable.
You know what’s smart? Thermodynamics. What’s even smarter? Using it to your advantage. This device chills your wine in 90 seconds (or what’s claimed). I don’t see why it wouldn’t work, you get a piece of metal cold enough, with enough volume and surface area and it’s sure gonna cool your wine down fast, I’d be worried that ice could form on the device itself and there’s no telling what that’ll do to you wine.
Never-the-less great idea when you just can’t wait for that bottle to chill.
I haven’t really gotten into the whole tumblr/tumblog thing yet, seems like an interesting way to blog easily/share with friends. I see it an am amped up version of twitter. One enterprising individual has managed to make his/her tumblog into some weird trip art blog. By taking 3 sequential frames from movies and making animated gifs out of them (which I can’t seem to recreate here, help?), Three Frames really adds dynamic to an otherwise boring image.
For another set of images check out Keggers of Yore, which documents keggers from what seems anytime before the mid-80s.
Yeah, that’s right, over 1/20th of worldwide internet traffic is from google’s servers, according to this NYT article and 256 exabytes of data.
We’ve already shared our love for everything Moleskine over here at CONVOKE, so here’s another product for our favorite journals. This folio really brings it home by being waterproof, protecting not only your Moleskine but your pens (specifically the G-Tec-C4, right?), money, business card, and whatever else you shove in there.
Check out this video for a full feature list.
I hope all you in the white north had an excellent Thanksgiving (I know I did). While everyone else was stuffing their faces in what can only be called splendor, geohot (George Hotz) was releasing blackra1n. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time coming.
My biggest gripe with the iPhone is the inability to set custom sms sounds. Not only is this possible on all but the cheapest phones, but due to the popularity of iPhones it only takes 8 people before 2 of you HAVE to have the same sound, quite confusing. My phone is now back and talking to me, just as my old one did.
Since the thing is now jailbroken, why not add a few more beneficial hacks to make the phone even greater? Here’s what I’m running:
5 Icon Dock: Allows for 5 icons on your dock, I have sms, phone, safari, mail and iPod.
QuickReply: Reply to sms messages without leaving your current app. Super convenient, you can also reply from your lock screen by double tapping the sms notification.
SBSettings: Quick access to your bluetooth, wifi, brightness, edge, 3g and running applications without leaving your current app. Also allows you to hide applications from the home screen. I never use stocks, compass, voice memos, stocks or iTunes, so it frees up quite a bit of real estate. You can still find these applications by searching with spotlight.
Installous: Might be unethical, but you can install hacked applications with this. Meaning the $100 tomtom app from the app store? Free. My phone is filled with stolen music already, so why not applications (and it’s still legal in Canada for now)?
statusnotifier: Allows for status of the phone to be placed in the top bar. Quick checks for email without unlocking the phone is now possible.
Ever wanted a real human skeleton? How about a dingo or pit viper (shown above)? Well, The Bone Room is what the doctor prescribed. Not only do they have a wide selection of animal bones but also odds and ends such as fossils and mounted insects. They also have a respectable collection of taxidermic items.
A human skeleton will run you $2,500-$4,000. Worth it.
I usually try to avoid posting things that have made it to such big sites as uncrate, but this was too good to pass up on. Urban Outfitters’ Mustache Bandages are exactly what you need to use when you’re in need of that type of thing. Otherwise, just stick them on your upper lip before going out to your next soirée.
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Sure, the GNP is important and all, but facebook can now “prove” Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year (followed by Christmas then New Year’s Eve). By using people’s status updates, facebook has been able to rate the “Gross National Happiness” (for the USA at least). They pick out certain words that are attributed to being positive (eg. “happy,” “yay” and “awesome”), and those that are attributed to be negative (eg. “sad,” “doubt” and “tragic”) and plot their use. Weird use of facebook to say the least, but interesting concept of national feelings.
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