Warm, Glowing, Warming Glow: We have a string of Christmas lights that are lizards with little lights inside of them. Here’s the real thing, frog-style. If you haven’t bookmarked National Geographic’s Daily Dozen photographs page, you should.
Unnecessarily Hard Software Department: I’ve been experimenting with Adobe Lightroom, based on a number of positive reviews. Once again, an Adobe product seems as intuitive as pig-latin in Chinese. I’m sure Lightroom is the bees knees, but I have to believe they make those programs difficult on purpose.
Stupid Web Tricks: I was going to link to this story about strange, extinct creatures, but Discovery spread the article across 10 pages. If every site that engaged in article spreading- normally done in the name of page views for serving ads- would immediately disappear off the face of the net, the net would be a better, more efficient and reader-friendly place.
Planet of the Twits: Robert Scoble has a very interesting read about what Twitter could and should become. I would really like to see native, expanded photo and music integration. In sum, I’d like to see Twitter add some of the features that Pownce had. But I don’t want Twitter to become too intermingled with Facebook or FriendFeed. I really don’t like the Facebook interface and I think FriendFeed, while interesting and useful, is greatly overrated by many. Sort of like Twitter, actually.
Musical Mashup Department: Southern Shelter, one of the web’s best music sites, has some live tracks from the Drive-By Truckers and Booker T. I’m looking forward to that new record. Here’s Angels and Fuselage, with DBT, Booker T. and Kelly Hogan. I know a Cajun girl that is going to dig this set.
He’s Not that Kat Anymore: Speaking of music, my other favorite music site, Twangville, pays tribute to Townes and Sir Douglas.
I Guess that’s Not the Word After All: Lifehacker asks if Thunderbird (the email app, not the wine) is dying on the vine (pun intended). I tried Thunderbird (the app) for the first time about a month ago and was epically unimpressed. And I am a rare in the nerd-zone desktop email user.
Till Her Daddy Takes the iPhone Away: Here are 60 free tabletop games for your iPhone.
About Time Department: An upcoming version of Firefox will allow you to install add-ons without restarting Firefox.
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