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Twitter from Google Reader

Treader, a greasemonkey script from crazybob for posting a link from Google Reader to Twitter.

List Of 19 Best Ads

A list of 19 amazing ads on UADDit. The Hoover ad is funny, and Amnesty International’s ad is simple yet powerful.

What is svchost.exe?

Ever wondered what all those svchost services are running in Windows? Here is the answer from the How-to Geek.

Facebook now allows apps on any website

Facebook has announced the release of a new JavaScript library which allows developers access to the Facebook API. This will now allow Facebook applications to be hosted on any website.

Posterwhore

A very cool blog of poster art from artists, illustrators, designers, and ad agencies.

Arab guy brings lion to party

I am surprised the lion kept it’s cool, considering all the dudes running around the room in fear. Well, at least the guy had the lion on a leash!!

Vintage Effect Tutorial

A neat tutorial by Veerle showing how to give your photos a vintage look in Photoshop.

Oriental Design Gallery

Oriental Gallery, a good looking new resource for web designs from the orient.

Sun Acquires MySQL

In a surprising and unusual move, Sun Microsystems has acquired MySQL.

Feltron 2007 Annual Report

Nicholas Felton’s year end annual reports are always amazing both in design, as well as how methodically he tracks a year. Also check out some of his other reports and photographs on his website.

As with my annual report, the underlying motivator is a deep curiosity. I REALLY want to know how much electricity I use in a week, how much music I listen too, and how much I drink. To that end, the more accurate my recordings are, the more satisfied I am. The figures that are most important to me are the ones which I know to be absolute. I can say with confidence that I know how much I ate and drank, whereas the range of my electricity use contains far more unknowns and moments of shared consumption.
- PRINT Maganzine Interview

America’s best-kept secrets

Photographer, Taryn Simon, captures America’s best-kept secrets, in her new book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Cambodian Toilets Sign

Funny sign in a Cambodian Toilet, just in case you are used to the Indian style squatting toilets.

Gmail adds new mailing lists feature to contact manager, with a simple interface for creating groups and adding contacts to groups. The group name can then be used to send email to all the members of the group. One missing option is the ability to share contact groups with other Gmail members.

Bank of America Buys Countrywide

Bank of America saves Countrywide Financial Corp from the brink of Bankruptcy due to the subprime lending mess, by agreeing to buy Countrywide for $4billion.