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#goodreads – Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

In his book, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi tells the story of how he converted from Islam to Christianity. I found the book fascinating for the insight…

How to use that extra eyelet on your shoes

Ever wondered what that extra eyelet is for on your running shoes? Watch the video I’m including with this post. HT: John McCully

Bruce Feiler: Agile programming — for your family  – TED.com

I was a little skeptical as I started watching Bruce Feiler’s talk Agile programming — for your family. However, I found that there is a lot of truth…

PENXO – 2mm lead holder pencil — Kickstarter

Penxo is a very cool, very minimal 2mm lead holder pencil available on Kickstarter. Penxo is a minimalist 2mm lead holder with no springs, buttons, or mechanical parts….

Shady Characters

If you’re a fan of typography, you’ll like Keith Houston’s Shady Characters blog. Get the back story on your favorite marks of punctuation. Keith Houston’s blog about the…

Powerwall – Tesla Motors

In my book, Elon Musk gives that Dos Equis guy a run for his money as the Most Interesting Man in the World. This week he announced his…

Mystery House – 99% Invisible

I was familiar with the story of the Winchester Mystery House before I listened to this week’s 99% Invisible podcast. As I listened, I was thinking it was simply…

Crystal – Communicate with anyone, based on personality

I first learned of Crystal via this WIRED post. Crystal is a service which analyzes publicly available data about your contacts, matches your contacts to one of 64 different…

StartUp, Season 2 – Gimlet Media

Season 2 of the StartUp podcast landed today. This season follows the ups and downs of the founders of Dating Ring as they try to build their match-making…

Elevator.js

Ahhh…so, nice. Elevator.js provides actual “elevator music” when visitors click your “scroll to the top” buttons. Elevator.js fixes those awkward “scroll to top” moments the old fashioned way….

Fiverr Faces

Fiverr Faces is an app that makes great use of Fiverr’s vertical: affordable web labor. Upload your photo via their app, and receive a caricature of yourself. Your…

CrowdLoot – Best Kickstarter Projects

CrowdLoot is a curated list of cool Kickstarter projects. Crowd Loot is the place to find out about the latest, coolest stuff on Kickstarter. Or at least we…

GoButler – Your SMS Butler

Text us to get whatever you want on demand with no hassle! We have trained operators standing by 24/7 to answer every one of your requests. We’ll order…

WIRED Has an Exciting New Way to Build Multimedia Stories | WIRED

I like how the engineers behind the WIRED website utilize WordPress to make it happen. In building the Feature Story Builder tool, we extracted what we learned from…

Welcome to Macintosh

Welcome to Macintosh – a tiny show about a big fruit company. John Gruber commented: Concise, tightly-edited, informative, and fun new podcast by young Mr. Mark Bramhill. Three…

Mines – A modern take on Minesweeper on the App Store on iTunes

Mines is a modern take on the classic minesweeper game. Play with a timer for added pressure, or the old fashioned way. Have fun, and be careful. ~ Mines…