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'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. — 'Slumdog Millionaire' Track 4 — 'Everyone's a winner'

My new addiction, after listening to the entire soundtrack about 15 times yesterday.

I can't get enough.

That's the definition of an addiction, isn't it?

Gotta go, it's coming on again (surprise).

Infrared Flashlight Video Recorder

From the website:

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Infrared Flashlight Video Recorder

This flashlight illuminates subjects while capturing their actions on video.

With the heft of a tactical police flashlight, it produces three levels of brightness from its 3-watt cool-white LED main light.

Seventeen infrared LEDs encircle the main light to provide night vision illumination up to 13 feet for nighttime recording.

Video and snapshots are captured at 30 fps with 640 x 480 resolution by the color CMOS sensor (night vision footage will be black and white) with a 66° field of view.

Up to 15 seconds of video and 500 snapshots can be stored on the built-in 128MB memory; supports up to a 2GB mini-SD memory card.

A USB port connects the flashlight to a computer to download videos.

Built-in microphone records sound clearly.

An LCD indicates battery life remaining, recording format, time, date, and storage capacity.

Requires three C batteries (not included) that provide up to three hours of operation (as light; one hour for video).

Durable aluminum construction.

13"L x 3"Ø.

Weighs 1 lb.

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$399.95.

bookofjoe on Facebook — 'real soon now'

According to Facebook's latest bulletin on my bookofjoe page (above; you didn't know I had one? Join the club — neither did I until I happened on it by accident last year), "To limit the load while we continue to upgrade our servers, we're limiting blogs that we pull feeds from. We're currently pulling feeds from blogs with 7+ followers [down from 15], but we continute to lower the threshold gradually."

What say a few of you joeheads seeking fame and (deferred) fortune sign on and join the two (2) lonely souls currently following me?

Let's light this firecracker, what?

While you're at it, feel free to "Help confirm the author," whatever that means in English.

I wasn't born Catholic but they say it's never too late, right?

Lap Counter Mobile Kitchen

Perfect for those airport layovers.

 

Now you can prepare your salad while you're on the way home.

 

A 2006 design by Tomas Kral.

[via freshome and Ray Earhart]

The proof of the blogging is in the reading — Or, why I just wrote a check for $348 to renew my Financial Times subscription

In the spirit of the global financial downturn, my crack accounting team here at boj World Headquarters™® is scrutinizing every expense with gimlet-eyed green-eyeshaded grimness, looking to cut costs and keep the bottom line healthy.

In that regard, subscriptions to the many newspapers and magazines I receive are being reexamined with an eye toward their 1) enjoyability [ai, me realizes this is a variation on the dreadful "drinkability"-themed Bud Light commercials, but what can you do, you take what's useful and try to outrun the nose-wrinkling smell...] and 2) utility as regards how much grist they furnish for the yawning maw of the bookofjoe mill, which runs 24/7/365, even while I sleep.

So when the Financial Times renewal form came last week, rather than automatically write the check as in flush years gone by, I put it aside for deeper analysis.

That just happened, in the following fashion: I went back through last month's (April 2009) posts and discovered at least 16 directly attributable to the FT (among them the Homer Simpson Talking Fridge Guard pictured up, from Jonathan Margolis's always entertaining "technopolis" column).

I never, ever, would have run across these items of interest if I didn't read the FT regularly in its dead tree incarnation, as many if not most of the items I featured don't appear online, as they oftimes come from the "How To Spend It" magazine supplement which, for all practical purposes for a reader here in the U.S., doesn't exist online due to the FT's dreadful website.

But hey, that's their problem, not mine.

Honestly, before I actually looked at each of the 240 April posts I'd have guessed perhaps four or five came from the FT.

But 16?

Book it, Danno.

What is it?

Answer here this time tomorrow.

KnowEm — 'thwart social media identity theft'

"KnowEm checks the availability of your brand name, user name or vanity URL on 120 popular social media websites."

For $64.95 they'll do your heavy lifting.

[via Milena]

Swarovski Bling Band Aids

"Each slide top tin contains three band-aids, each with different crystal colours: 1x ice white, 1x rose, 1x blood red."

Designed by Fabian Seibert.

$12.