Happy Second Birthday, Sweetheart!

Clever trick using physics to keep your camera steady and put an end to blurry shots.

$1 Image Stabilizer For Any Camera – Lose The Tripod

Not one to be left out of the American Idol critics’ chairs, Ryan Seacrest gets in on the judging act and analyses this contestant’s “talents.”

via PhillyBurbs

Print out this coupon and take it to your nearest Big Lots!, where you’ll save 20% off your entire purchase, from now until Sunday 2/3.  Big Lots! is a discount retailer that features mostly off-brand, but surprisingly decent quality, goods.  Find a store near you.

It’s only a month until the iPhone SDK is released, but those wacky hackers are still at it. Witness PocketGuitar, a realistic-sounding (using sampled .WAVs, I imagine) guitar simulator.

iPhone Pocket Guitar

Play Block2Lock, a “slide the block out” puzzle game. It’s designed for play on the iPhone, but works just as well on your PC.

A little late for “top xx lists” for 2007, but hey it was just posted last week.

Check out Fortune Magazine‘s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. More than just a boring list of business news, it’s a great general year-end wrap up of many of the wacky events of 2007.

Not sure how this headline gets approved by the editor, by the way…

People have been asking what to get for Lindsay for her second birthday. (She’ll be 2 years old already?!) Here are a few suggestions:

• She loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse right now.
• She used to love — and still enjoys occasionally — Blue’s Clues.
• She always loves Elmo.
• We could always use more Children’s DVDs for rides (see above characters).
• For clothes, she’s a 2T.
• For toys, anything without small parts is nice
  (she still shoves things in her mouth from time to time).
• Educational toys like time-telling, spelling, adding/subtracting.
  (she’s got her colors, letters, numbers and counting down!)

For Christmas, she received lots of Barbies… so she’s good with those for a while. And she’s enjoying her full kitchen set with plastic foodstuffs from Christmas.

Thanks!

That day being today. It’s the largest single move “in recent memory”. Read More »

It seems like this is a bold stroke to fend off recession, but I think it can only serve to do just that — fend it off. It’s still coming, perhaps towards the end of Q2 ’08, but The Fed is trying to soften the blow.

In the meantime, borrowers rejoice… Refinancing, here I come!

UPDATE: or maybe not…

Bill Maher speaks up for Rationalists, and their role in the election.

“If you believe you’re in a long-term relationship with an all-powerful space daddy who will, after you die, party with your ghost forever…” LOL

While I’m holding out for the razor with 11 blades — that will shave my face, chest and armpit hair simultaneously — I’m settling for a free Quattro Titanium from Shick. Even though it’s actually a Cinco, as it features a fifth, “leading (bleeding?) edge”, blade.

That’s the tagline of this game. At first, it would seem that all you have to do is click on the stairs to reach the next level up — the goal being to reach Level 16. However, you only have 10 cursor lives, and each one has a time limit. And with each new cursor that spawns, you’ll see the “ghost” of the last cursor’s movements that you played.

You’ll see that your current cursor has to work with your previous cursors to solve the puzzle. You’ll have to plan ahead and help your future self with well-placed clicks. In other words, “Cooperate by onesself?!”

Got it? Thought so. Great. Now let’s play Cursor*10.