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A Sleep Inducing Light, How to Build a Ring Light and an Awesome Tauntaun Costume

• LightSleeper, a sleep inducing light
  "LightSleeper is a device that projects a soothing light on the ceiling. The light moves in a circular motion above the bed. You follow the light with your eyes for a few minutes, and you begin to drift off. Following the light has the effect of relaxing the mind, a necessary prerequisite to entering a deep, refreshing sleep."
  
• Photography: How to Build a Ring Light for $10-$20
  "The assembly is built around a filter that attaches to his camera lens. Two rings of LEDs are then glued to a case made from the plastic of a CD-R container. To diffuse the light, he sanded both sides of the clear plastic housing to make it opaque.translucent."
  
• Scott Holden's Tauntaun Costume

a table and archistructure

• ontwerpduo | Work: marbelous
• Bubbletecture H, Shuhei Endo, Japan
  Shuhei Endo's steel, wood and glass structure, Bubbletecture H, inflates ominously out of the Japanese landscape. The visitor center, built in a valley between Osaka and Hiroshima, was planned in three sections housing a theater/lecture hall, a bookshop/galley and a workshop.

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of interest

• Bandcamp
  Slick service to post your music.
• synergy - mouse and keyboard sharing between multiple computers / os
  Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own display
• Cringely on Leadership
  Management vs. Leadership at technology companies...

more linky action

• Le Grand Content
  Clemens Kogler's pithy video in reference to Jessica Hagy's blog, highlighting societal intersections through diagrams and animation. Very slick.
• Things - task management on the Mac
  Oh the choices...

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my attention recently

• skforlee - anti-theft lunch bag
  Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are regular sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides. After your sandwich is placed inside, no one will want to touch it.
• Everything, Too Cheaply Metered
  "Flows of goods and services formed the basis of the first global economy. Flows of data, the second. We are headed toward an economy built on the attention to data's data, or meta data. And there after, we'll build on the attention to attention." Lovely.

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Organization Resources

Although I may not always be the most organized person, some part of me gets kicks out of organization tools. This probably explains why I love to collect blank notebooks.

Here are some interesting tools I've been looking at in the past few weeks.

(way to late for christmas) gadget consumerism

• DealExtreme
  Super inexpensive, super cheap electronicy gadgety products, shipped free. Can't vouch for ordering or quality at this time, but may give it a try someday.
• X-Treeme Geek
  is a nifty gadget retailer. Lots of interesting stuff.

lots of interesting things to link to from the past few days...

• Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby from Royal College of Art - Interview (Core77 Podcast)
  Dr. Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are faculty members in the Design Interactions department at London's Royal College of Art and have gained somewhat of a cult following for their provocative and future-scenario-based design work.
• Shelfari
  A website that let's you catalog your book collection and share your thoughts and recommendations with other people.
• Set Up a Self-Cleaning Mac with Hazel
  Hazel can keep your Mac's hard drive free of files you don't need anymore.
• Summize
  Summize crawls reviews and blog discussions on the web to create summations of reviews of music, movies, and books. Summize uses a colorbar to show the distribution of ratings.
• Add More Functionality to Leopard's Screen Sharing
• David Allen's Weblog
  The Getting Things Done guru has a weblog on Huffington Post.
• Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free Software and Webapps
  A nice selection... I don't agree with every one of them, the free stipulation leaves some important ones off.
• Clever Nut Bolt and Screw Salt and Pepper Shakers
  The threads are really a spring. Bend them to let the pepper and salt through. Very Cute.
• Winterbells
  An addictive little game - guide your bunny using your mouse to jump from floating bell to floating bell.
• TYPEflake*
  Slick typographic flash greeting cards.
• Release 1.0 Back Issues - O'Reilly Radar
• Hidden Network Cards
• Email client agnostic templates
  Outlook 2007 friendly email templates.

shrinky links

• DOPPLR
  Lets you share your future travel plans with a group of trusted fellow travelers that you have chosen.
• Cool Tool: Millepede Cable Ties
  Millepede is a refastenable cable bundling tie
• Fluidforms
  Products include a Fluid Earth Bowl - topographically milled bowl based on your location
• The Extreme Presentation(tm) Blog: Choosing a good chart

mind hacks

TimeSnapper - make timesheets a snap
TimeSnapper is an Automatic Screenshot Journal. It runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long.

Mood Foods
Six snacks that will help kick your mind into gear.