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Cool way to look at time.

~Jeff

Combining the old-school concept of a refrigerator chore wheel with the level-grinding fun of World of Warcraft, it’s Chore Wars. The idea? Set up a system of experience points for household chores and “level up” your characters by vacuuming, cleaning up, doing dishes, etc.

I know people that would love this.

~Jeff

Act One: a man sits alone, in a recording booth, and gives hard-earned and thoughtful pointers on how to improve storytelling abilities.

I love his quote “Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap”. Amen to that.

~jeff

Fantastic compendium of unintentionally funny comic-book panels; rumor has it that some of the panels were nicked from Superdickery, but I can neither confirm nor deny that allegation… nor does it really matter, as they’re all lifted to begin with anyhow.

~jeff

Honestly, I could play with “Blueprints” all day.

~jeff

Radar Magazine is running a fantastic article on joke stealing, counting down all the usual suspects: Denis Leary stealing from Bill Hicks, Dane Cook stealing from Louis C.K., and Robin Williams stealing from, well, everybody. A fascinating peek inside the always surprisingly unfun world of stand-up comedy.

~jeff

No matter what Joel Johnson says about people like me, I love me some gizmos — but I’m usually flat broke, so I’ve developed a system I call the Constant Reward Strategy™ (self-help book forthcoming Q3 2007 in HarperCollins paperback). This strategy involves always having some ultra-cheap piece of electronics in the mail winding its way to my house.

To this end, the friendly folks at meritline.com have been a really enabling force; the prices can’t be beat and even the slowest shipping only takes three days or so. Highly recommended.

ADDENDUM: Evan rightly points out NewEgg — how could I forget about them — and I might as well plug Think Geek while I’m shamelessly plugging. Neither of them beat meritline for sheer “cheepnis” though.

~jeff

I had a boss once who was just like Phone Guy.

NOTE: Don’t be like Phone Guy.

~jeff

Valentine’s Day. link.

Edit: Feminist LGBT ally!

link.

~jeff

This is the controversy that Jon Land should have a hand in. Tragically, comments are closed, but the ones there represent the finest of Internet culture. Oddly, I mean that entirely nonsarcastically.

Duchamp would be so proud!

(Thanks to Rachie!)

Until we have the nifty rounded corners of CSS3 compliant browsers, web designers will have to resort to CSS skullduggery to get nicely rounded corners. Cornershop is a lovely interface for clear instructions on how to make your own rounded corner boxes, without a whole lot of foolish shenanigans and rigmarole.

~jeff

To complete the self-disclosure trifecta of foundmagazine.com and postsecret.com, I suggest getmortified.com, which is:

Mortified is a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts (journals, poems, letters, lyrics, home movies, schoolwork) as shared by their original authors.

…make sure you watch at least a little of “I Hate Drake“; by the end, you’ll probably hate Drake too.

~jeff

There’s something hypnotic about HornyManatee.com; my favorite has to the be “Mature Manatee“.

~jeff

Nifty webtool showing you the live results (and giving you the code!) of your CSS manipulations. Like my beloved CSSEdit, but on the web.

~jeff