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Jelly meetings are a way for folks who usually work at home to get out of the house, find kindred workers to collaborate with, or simply to socialize — without having to commit to the gym-like membership setup of most of the country’s coworking arrangements, where rented office spaces feel much like a traditional workplace and require a regular financial commitment beyond the means of most freelancers. Indeed, the term “office” can happily be avoided all together with Jelly. Unlike most coworking setups, Jelly exists for only one day every other week, and it’s free.

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A look into the items that people carry via a Flickr group. The Items We Carry “are the small things we put in our pockets or on our persons — the essentials we need to function daily at a basic level”. Similar in part to the group What’s in your bag?. My entry pictured above.

Near-Mint Heroes a weblog about comics, art and design. Including the “The Marvel Guide to Collecting Comics”, something I should have read. I have hundreds if not thousands of comics haphazardly put in storage in Canada.

This clip shows the desktop metaphor in reverse. A ‘real-life’ desktop inspired by a digital one. Well done but a tad ‘slow’ with an amusing bit at the end. Link. Via Neatorama.

The Logitech VX Nano, a smaller version of Logitech’s MX mouse designed specifically for the needs of laptop users, is given a largely positive review by Dan Frakes for Macworld magazine. He calls the mouse “tough to beat”. I’m not happy with my far less expensive Logitech LX so I may give this model a try.
Read the full review.

Advanced common sense.

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What makes it indispensable is the many nonmusic applications dreamed up by iPod-crazed people unwilling to leave well enough alone.
Today, for instance, I am in Paris on a park bench in the sun. I am wirelessly downloading driving directions to Toulouse on my laptop and transferring them to the iPod in my pocket. Finding the route online and dumping it into my iPod’s “Notes” application takes less than a minute, courtesy of a little program called PodQuest, from Mibasoft.
With the information in place, I navigate the Champs-élysées while wirelessly playing my iPod’s road-trip music mix over the car’s stereo. The car-stereo trick is accomplished with the help of Griffin Technology’s iTrip, a tiny FM transmitter that plugs into the iPod’s earphone jack. With iTrip, the same music that keeps your ears company in airports can now be enjoyed in cars, via hotel-room sound systems, virtually anywhere there’s a radio to receive its signal.

iPod is My Co-Pilot : Condé Nast Traveler

You may have seen luxury handbag designer Anya Hindmarch’s “I’m Not A Plastic Bag” bags around and maybe thought nothing of it other than “okay, obviously you’re not a plastic bag, so what?” What you might not know is that at 8am this morning, 15 Whole Foods stores around NYC began a first-come, first-serve sale of 20,000 of these $15 cotton grocery bag alternatives, limited to three per customer. A similar event for the bags in Taiwan required riot police and landed 30 people in the hospital.

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