Beginning this week, the IRS will begin distributing Economic Stimulus Payments (or “tax rebates”) to 130 million households. If you made more than $3,000 & filed your taxes last year, you’re getting one. Single people can expect $600. Married folk: $1200 + $300 per child. That’s a significant chunk of change. “So what do I […]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
The Mixtape Is Back With Mixwit
Rock out this weekend with my first mix: Can’t Stand Still, a collection of “party rock”. Then, why not make your own mix? Just go to Mixwit, sign up, and search for the songs you want to add. The tape templates & animation (check it out below) are a stroke of genius.
BlackBerry (& others) For ONE PENNY
** TODAY ONLY ** Get great phones like the BlackBerry Curve, RAZR2, BlackJack II, even the AT&T Tilt for $0.01 after rebate, with two year activation! This is a hot deal, valid 4/24 only! Link to Offer
The ‘Impossible’ Art of Li Wei
Li claims these photos are not Photoshopped. Looks like the laws of physics gave him plenty of “leeway”… groan via Clicked
The Greatest Home Shopping Bloopers
From Cracked, The 7 Greatest Home Shopping Screw Ups of All Time. “And that has never happened.” “OW! Oooh… Ow, THAT HURT.” LMAO
Test Your Awareness
Friday Fun
… can be had outside today. Go on, get off your keister. Nothing goin’ on here anyways.
Movie Editing Software For 5 Bucks
… after rebate of course. Nonetheless, Buy.com has Sony Vegas Movie Studio+DVD 8 for $4.99 after mail-in rebates (which Buy is usually pretty good at fulfilling). I’ve used the professional version of Vegas for years, and can say it’s the best video editing package I’ve ever worked with. If you’re into posting video on your […]
My New, Deserted Neighborhood
MSNBC touches on an under-reported side effect of the housing crisis — underdeveloped, abandoned communities. Places (Philly area featured) where hopes were high, but prices higher. All the gold has been mined, and what’s left is a ghost town.
Our Chilly OCNJ Weekend
A few weeks ago we took an overnight trip to OCNJ — just to get away, and to root on David, who ran in the Ocean Drive 10 Mile Run (and finished in the top 100). Chilly OCNJ Weekend
Magic Pen – Draw Your World
In what looks like an 80% “repurposing” of Crayon Physics, Magic Pen is a puzzle game that allows you to draw your own freeform physical objects in order to manipulate existing objects — namely, nudging the red ball to the flag. But in a unique twist, you can create pins & hinges (which, in practice, […]
Ten Thousand Cents
Check out Ten Thousand Cents, a Mechanical Turk project. Each participant was paid a penny to draw one section of a hundred dollar bill. Ten thousand of these images, at one cent apiece, make up $100 (clever). U.S. users spent just under 3 minutes, on average, creating their little slice. That’s less than $0.20/hour for […]