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Kickass Crochet Patterns

I love DYI projects and am a big proponent of small, one-man/mom-and-pop shops. However, I never caught the Etsy craze because there is just so much stuff on there! Alas, I have no need to worry. Fellow bloggers often come to the rescue by sorting out the best and the most interesting, saving my lazy ass from doing the task myself. Today, Geekologie combined two of my biggest passions, Star Wars and crafts, into a post called Yes!: Star Wars Arts And Crafts For Sale. Through it, I stumbled upon Etsy seller lafeecrochette, who sells crochet patters to some (if I do say so myself) kickass projects. My favorites are: Darth Vader The Boys of South Park Cookie Monster Yoda I haven't picked up a crochet needle...

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iPhone Numberpad App

As much as I *heart* my LG Voyager (especially its rockin' Navigation system), I do get tempted to by the lusciousness that is the iPhone. In particular, the Safari browser. Although LG and Verizon like to tout the Voyager's browser as a fully functioning HTML decoder, the fact remains that it doesn't work too well with anything other than HTML. CSS rendering is unreliable and JavaScript is a hit or a miss. My phone has also developed a nasty habit of automatically shutting off whenever it encounters a page heavy with JavaScript/AJAX. *Throws tantrum* So whenever I see yet another cool app for the iPhone, like the Numberkey, I end up emotionally cheating on my Voyager. Can you tell I have a weakness for simple solutions...

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Big Apple Tuesday

In case you live in a cave, I am happy to tell you that Apple made some big announcements today. (I followed the live blog at Engadget, which seemed to have some good pictures of the event. As such, the following pictures come courtesy of Mr. Topolsky at Engadget, unless otherwise noted.) The new MacBook Pros and MacBooks are cut from solid blocks of aluminum like the MacBook Air: That chunk of aluminum in the picture above is cut with (frickin) laser beams to form this: In my opinion, the biggest announcement of the day came when Steve Jobs spoke of the integration of the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chip with the laptop lineup: It is a chipset and GPU in one! It is capable...

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