Booksi Recycled Book iPhone Docks: Don’t Read While Docked

I’ve never though of recycling books, since I’m a bibliophile, but there’s something marvelous about these docks that are made from old books. Rich Neeley custom makes them for the discerning gadgeteer.

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Pad & Quill Littlest Black Book for iPod nano Is Not an April Fool (or is it?)

There are thousands of different iPad and iPhone cases out there, but other than watch bands, the little iPod nano hasn’t got that many, which is one of the reasons why Pad & Quill developed the Littlest Black Book, a teeny tiny case for your iPod nano.

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Unlikely Recycling: Book into Synthesizer

I don’t like to hear or read about people destroying books, which is one of the reasons why I strongly dislike a few scenes in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Indy was in Berlin witnessing a Nazi book burning), but I guess there’s something to be said for destroying a book to turn it into a synthesizer.

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BookBook iPhone Case Turns Your iPhone into a Book

I always liked the BookBook MacBook case, but the new iPhone case looks really nice as well. The neat thing about it is that it can double as a wallet (if you don’t need to carry around too much stuff). It’s hard to find anything that beats the aged book look.

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On Bad Reviews

Emily St. John Mandel talks about dealing with bad reviews.

Tony Hawk and the 900

Great column over at McSweeney’s about Tony Hawk’s new book.

It’s the kind of thing you would actually need to see someone else do before you believed it was possible.

His peers, out of reverence, stopped skating and surrendered the ramp to him.

He doesn’t look like someone who’s found religion; he looks like someone who’s found divinity.

I saw this when it first aired because back then I was a street rollerblader. I was also flabbergasted.

Here is the video from the 1999 X-Games when Tony Hawk first landed a 900.

Emily Gould Vs Cristina Nehring @ n+1

Emily Gould reviews Cristina Nehring’s A Vindication of Love: Reinventing Romance for the 21^st Century [Harper, June 2009]. Nehring responds to the apparent vitriolic Gould.

The Business Brickyard

Howard Mann’s book The Business Brickyard is available as a free PDF download. (via Seth Godin)

Numerical Analysis Art

Here are the pieces that I worked on last night for about 45 minutes. It felt good to do this amidst the craziness of the end of term.

Rapture Ready

Adventures in the parallel universe of Christian pop culture.

Kind of makes me want to read this book by Daniel Radosch.