Last minute printable gift tags

via LifeHacker.

Your own Yule log

Download to your iPod or Desktop. Your own bit of virtual warmth.

Hard to find 1.800 numbers

Telephone numbers for all those companies that would rather you fill out an online form.

1.800.FREE.411

Never pay for information again. Here's Snopes take on it.

Google Zeitgeist 2005

Lots of lists, including: Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005 Myspace Ares Baidu wikipedia orkut iTunes Sky News World of Warcraft Green Day Leonardo da Vinci

GrooveTube

The best thing to happen to television. This innovative accessory will change your TV from into a work of colorful, abstract art that changes in rhythm with whatever is on the channel.

Google space

Google sets up PCs in waiting areas, to observe how they're used. Sort of Google Labs, but face to face.

"Things" = wine?

Linens ’n Things has opened an online wine boutique. Buy from LNT and get "three sheets to the wind".

y.ah.oo!

Yahoo! buys Del.icio.us. More comments here. And from their Venture Capitalist here.

Share Excel spreadsheets

Don't E-mail spreadsheets. Just copy and paste it into JotSpot Tracker.

New IM worm chats with intended victim

Now you can IM chat with a virus, that encourages you to activate the payload.

Bra company thrives with help of eBay

The eBay power seller runs Bramania, an online seller of bras ranging from 34A to 54J, from a self-storage unit in Wixom. There he and employee Sandra Nelson ship out about 450 bras and panties a week all over the world.

Google Calendar tomorrow, 12/6?

Rumor has it...

40,000 XBox360's sold on eBay?

Apparently that's what Meg Whitman revealed.

Gmail Virus Scanning

Gmail's "What's New" page say virus scanning is up.

If a virus is found in an attachment you've received, our system will attempt to remove it, or clean the file, so you can still access the information it contains. If the virus can't be removed from the file, you won't be able to download it.

New PayPal coupon

Scott Wingo has a new PayPal coupon code. C11-GIFTGUIDE - this is a 10% off coupon, no min, $25 off max.

Sofa that converts to bunk bed

Doc is a comfortable divan with slipcovers, which requires a simple gesture and no physical strain to become a practical bunk bed with a safe ladder that is both a support element and a protective barrier.

UL refuses to certify Turkey fryers

Heh... them Southerners. It ain't a meal less someone's risked life and limb.

Gmail Cornucopia logo

Hmm... as of 12:30am Eastern, the Gmail logo is a cornucopia, but the Google logo remains the default.

Google Click-To-Call

You click the ad, enter your number, Google calls it, when you pick up, Google rings the other end. Your phone number is hidden. The call is free.

Cyber Monday gaining ground

The very existence of an entity known as Cyber Monday points to the Web's growing force as a retail outlet.

75-year-old jewel thief looks back

Style and cunning allowed her to confuse store clerks

How to fix Mom and Dad’s computer

You’re headed home to a turkey feast with all the trimmings - and Mom and Dad’s computer. You know what’s going to happen...

Internet Retailer's top 50 web sites

In Housewares/Home Furnishings it's:

Furniture.com Waterford.com Wedgwood.com Wisteria.com

Xbox 360 campout on eBay

For the right price, I will fly to your location, camp out for 24 hours in front of your local XBOX 360 retailer, and personally deliver the new game system to your front door on release day next week.

The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles

Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars—it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color.

The 100 Best Products of 2005

PC World's list. FireFox and Gmail at the top.

Discovering Sherlock Holmes

Stanford is republishing Sherlock Holmes stories as they originally appeared in The Strand magazine. You can have them mailed for free, or pick up the PDF each week.

Floppy disc notebook on Etsy

Blank book made from recycled 5.25" floppy disks.

Doodle4Google

Here are the finalists in Google's contest for kids around London.

All Earth's air & water visualizations

Graphic scaled images showing All 1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of water in the world and all 5140 trillion tonnes of the air in the atmosphere, massed in one geographic location.

Profile of an eBay clothing PowerSeller

So, to make a long story short, a leather jacket turned into three weeks of bliss in Europe. It doesn't get any more exciting than that.

Save $25 on PayPal use

Scott Wingo, of ChannelAdvisor, has an entry listing discount codes for money off eBay purchases. Good for the rest of November.

"Parts" Cars on eBay

No more nice parts cars. All listings must include:

This vehicle is being sold for parts only and is not operational or street legal. Therefore, upon purchase, it will need to be either towed or trailered. eBay encourages its members to learn about their state laws governing vehicle sales prior to the sale or purchase of a vehicle.

Note: You should copy and paste the description into your item description exactly as it appears above. Even an extra space or character will prevent you from being able to submit the listing.

Google buying eBay?

Wall Street rumor...

Top of the Rock

One of the best views in New York City - at the top of the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan - reopened to the public on Tuesday after almost 20 years.

Windows Defender

Anti-Spyware is no more. Sporting the new name "Windows Defender", it will be bundled into Windows Vista and will use Windows Update for grabbing new signatures.

FlightAware - Live Flight Tracker

Besides tracking any flight, you can follow a specific airport, a specific type of plane, or even a random flight.

Windows Live / Office Live

Microsoft announces two new web based services. Think of Windows Live as kind of a like a My Yahoo! -- but on steroids. I played with the Safety Center. It has virus scanning, defragging and cleanup. Also Favorites, which looks like del.icio.us. OfficeLive coming in 2006.

Pet Strollers

You can now stroll your pet in comfort and style... will turn heads and make a statement as you enjoy an outing with your cat or small dog. Nevermind.

Meals Ready for eBay

U.S. Looks into whether eBay sellers in Gulf Coast states are trying to profit from selling MREs. E-mails sent by The Associated Press to eBay's MRE sellers in Gulf Coast states went unanswered.

The Swiffer CarpetFlick

How Procter & Gamble conquered carpet.

White is the new Orange

The albinos are called ghost, snowballs, luminas or Caspers -- presumably a reference to the friendly ghost. And the ones about the size of a baseball? Baby Boos. Still the same inside.

Photo printing on Flickr

10 Free 4x6 mailed, or pick up for free at your local Target.

Keep The Change

Slick new marketing campaign from Bank Of America. They round up every purchase to the next dollar, and transfer the difference to your savings account. 100% matching for the first three months, 5% thereafter.

Migraine attack art

A representation of the visual symptoms of a migraine attack. Won an award from the Visions of Science. More 2005 winners here.

BudgetTracker - online money manager

BudgetTracker allows you to track your Budget, Bills, Transactions and tie all these together in an easy to read Calendar that can send you reminders when Bills are due. You can also view most of the data stored on this site with your Cellular Phone so you can take all your data with you where ever you may be.

WestPoint interactive "smart" sheets

In an exclusive strategic partnership, WestPoint Home Inc., America's largest manufacturer of fashion bed and bath products, has teamed with T-INK Inc. to produce innovative, interactive products using patented "thinking ink" technology. An interactive Cinderella–theme comforter "that lights up like Broadway and makes the sound of a fairy godmother's wand sweeping through the air" is headed for Sears, Mervyns and Wal–Mart . via bookofjoe.

Is it time to hit the deck?

Robert Burns of Mauckport, Indiana, caught this shot. via AvWeb.

"It" is coming Oct. 20

eBay's new advertising campaign. Scott Wingo of ChannelAdvisor, says his office picks: some kind of skype hype, the integration of ebay/shopping.com/skype, or a new way to shop on ebay (easier, more convenient).

Baby named Google

A Ph.D. in search engine marketing names his kid "Google". He has his own domain "google-kai.com". One day his Dad will say, "But ya ought to thank me, before I die, for the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye".

WSJ top 5 books on dot commerce

The top books on what the Internet means for business.

Picasa 2.1 available for download

Print CD covers, BlogThis!, more RAW support and external drives.

23 Ways to speed up WindowsXP

Concise list of tweaks to try.

Remember The Milk

A new ToDo list application. Remember The Milk is the best way to manage your to-do lists online.

The personal global microbrand

A small, tiny brand, that "sells" all over the world.

eBay blocks stun guns to NY

Online auctioneer eBay Inc. said Tuesday it will block the sale and shipment of stun guns and other illegal weapons to New York residents under an agreement with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

The Ultimate Bed

And that's not even showing the optional integrated TV stand.

UFO's in West Chester

Google Maps hack for UFO's.

YahooMSN merged

I'm sticking with Trillian.

Create a palette with ColorBlender

Pick your starting color. ColorBlender builds a 6-color matching palette (a "blend"). via LifeHacker.

PayPal buys Verisign payment unit

The move was seen as letting PayPal, already the largest online payments company, expand faster beyond its core audience of eBay-based transactions and to compete better with credit cards as an online-payment system, analysts said.

Spam stock tracker

What if you purchased 1,000 shares in each of the hot stock picks you receive every day?

Workplaces

Lecture on open source discusses the effectiveness of workplaces.

Another thing blogs and open source software have in common is that they're often made by people working at home. That may not seem surprising. But it should be. It's the architectural equivalent of a home-made aircraft shooting down an F-18. Companies spend millions to build office buildings for a single purpose: to be a place to work. And yet people working in their own homes, which aren't even designed to be workplaces, end up being more productive. The atmosphere of the average workplace is to productivity what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed.

Six Drinks That Changed World History

About one of these, Great Britain's Fleet physicians thought that this had doubled the efficiency of the fleet.

Google's NewsReader is out

Looks cool, but it's slow, I can't get my subscription OPML file imported, and it crashed my whole browser at least once.

American Diaspora

Sharp graphic depiction of settling Katrina refugees.

Blackmail Boxes

A public art peice by Chaos Studios in Colorado Springs. It's just randomly dropped in the middle of the downtown area.

eBay fabrics glossary

Fashion expert Frances Harder describes every type of textile so you can peg down which type of fabric you really want to buy.

New Gmail features

Auto-Save, Contact export and a Gmail enabled Toolbar.

The Google Ant

Entomologist so excited about Google Earth that he has to name a newly discoverd ant after it.

James Dean - 50 years ago today

James Dean died in a car crash 50 years ago today.

Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album

Don't EVER push a creative. This is what you get. Don't miss: The Big Royalty Check, Ring Worm, Want A Danish and Dum Dum George.

The 55-Plus Crowd Takes to eBay Auctions

WSJ Startup article. It's never too late.

100 Most Often Misspelled Words In English

Here are the 100 words most often misspelled ('misspell' is one of them). Each word has a mnemonic pill with it and, if you swallow it, it will help you to remember how to spell the word. Acceptable, accidentally, accommodate, acquire, acquit, a lot, amateur, apparent...

How Four eBay Stars Got Started

Entrepreneur.com article. An idea, a need, a passion, a calling--everyone has a reason for starting a business on eBay. Here are 4 entrepreneurs' stories.

OnGuard OnLine - Federal Trade Commission

Stop. Think. Click. OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.

Amazing food photographs

An amazing set of photographs of little people in food landscapes. Skip the intro, click on "minimiam", and then select one of the "galeries" (primeurs, gourmandise, etc.). The first and second dot in the bottom right corner will navigate each series. via kottke.org.

Everybody hates Chris premiers on Google Video

Inspired by his childhood experiences, comedian Chris Rock narrates the hilarious, touching story of a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York, during the early 1980's.

Keyboard Keys Klutch

Purse made from keyboard keys. via BoingBoing.

Rita on Google Maps

The Central Florida Hurricane Center has a Google Maps plot of Rita.

"Rush Hour in Reno"

John Endter of Minden, Nevada made it out to Reno for the Air Races this year. He tells us this photo was taken during the T-6 Silver Series, as the racers were rounding Pylon Number 7. via AvWeb.

eBay: 10 years, 10% off, 10 days only

Anniversary promotion starting tonight. Listings offering PayPal payments only.

Voo2do - Task and To-do Management

Another ToDo list web application. Similar to Ta-Da, but with more details.

Writely.com - Online word processing

Another excellent web application. Simple & SECURE web document sharing.

Mom's recipes, a photo set

Interesting use of a Flickr photoset. Kissin' wears out... cookin' don't.

Motley Fool on eBay/Skype

Exchanging goods? Exchanging words? It may seem like a stretch, but eBay couldn't afford to let the other Internet giants grow unchecked.

Plastique Chic

Purses made from drive-through bank carriers. Choose from Deep, Fresh, Ripe, Wet, Blast, Lucky, Fire and Rebel. These are colors?

Blog Thesis

James Torio's Master's thesis for Syracuse. It's a comprehensive view of blogging. via GapingVoid.

LibraryThing

The "Flickr" of books. Uses the Library of Congress and Amazon to identify your books. Tagging allows for powerful retrieval.

Dig a Hole

If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop? An impressive use of Google Maps. Hmm... I'd have a long swim to Australia.

Happy Birthday, Mencken

Writer, editor, philologist, social critic, and Baltimore native H. L. Mencken was born on September 12, 1880. Mencken, who generated a strong literary current in Baltimore during the 1920s and 1930s, was best known for his scathing social commentary, critical support of emerging writers, and for his scholarly understanding of American usage of the English language.

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

Gizmo - Open standards alternative to Skype

Gizmo Project is an open standards based implementation of VOIP. Calls want to be free.

eBay wins Skype

The rumors were true. Bringing more "humanity" to eBay.

Google saves twin

A Google of hemoglobin "premature infant" saves twin from extremely dangerous transfusion.

eBay responds to Katrina

eBay to deposit $1,000 into the PayPal accounts of the top 1,000 eBay sellers in the affected area.

NOLA Flood in your city

The NOLA flood in your city.

Five Days with Katrina

Beautiful photo essay before, during and after Katrina.