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2008 Hotel WiFi Chart — Why pay more? In fact, why pay at all?

[via hotelchatter.com and technologyevangelist.com]

Lang Lang plays the first few measures of Chopin's Op.10/5 'Black Keys' etude with an orange

According to the YouTube description, "This is Lang Lang in his practice room at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. Who knew he could play piano in a different way? Lang Lang ... learned this technique from Daniel Barenboim, a famous conductor and pianist. Apparently this 'orange technique' helps relax the wrist and the hands too!"

Where is Prokofiev when we need him?

Narrative Magazine — 'The future of reading'

You decide.

Cone Table

"If the road is closed, this tool will help to have a fine coffee break."

Glass, plastic and aluminum.

H 29 x W 50 x L 50cm.

Apply within.

[via Shawn Lea, BallerHouse and BornRich]

Human Mirror

Res ipsa loquitur.

What is it?

Hint: It's not a deer whistle — but it could be.

Answer here this time tomorrow.

Enhanced reverse phone number lookup

By now even TechnoDolts™ like me know that occasionally you can get information about the owner of a phone number by putting it into the Google search box, etc.

But more often than not Google doesn't give back the information you were looking for.

phoneinfosite.com takes you a step closer than Google's area code lookup by providing the location of the three digit exchange following the area code.

My top 10 songs of the '70s

In alphabetical order:

American Pie — Don McLean (1972)

Dancing Machine — Jackson 5 (1973)

Dancing Queen — Abba (1977)

Hot Stuff — Donna Summer (1979)

Levon — Elton John (1971)

Loco-motion — Grand Funk (1974)

Smoke On The Water — Deep Purple (1972)

Tiny Dancer — Elton John (1971)

We Are Family — Sister Sledge (1979)

You Don't Mess Around With Jim — Jim Croce (1972)