bookofjoe

Bernard Madoff's complete client list

Part 1 here.

Part 2 here.

Part 3 here.

Personal Travel Fan

Directable airflow, 3 speeds, finger-safe plastic blades, neck strap.

 

Requires 4 AA batteries (not included). 

 

$12.85.

BehindTheMedspeak: 'Snake Oil? Evidence for popular health supplements.'

By David McCandless and Andy Perkins for Information is Beautiful.

[via Milena]

Dew Quiver Sound Control Shoulder Strap — Just the thing if you're in a beauty contest and want to keep your music with you

 

You control your phone/MP3 player with the buttons on the strap.

 

The phone/player/wallet/keys etc. go into the pockets.

 

$84.99.

[via Gizmodiva and Wholly's Blog]

The increasing irrelevance of what's in newspapers to what matters to most people

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It's like there are two worlds: the one covered by the Times and Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, with front pages replete with stories about gridlock in Washington and infighting in the White House, and style sections that cover boring and repetitive fashion and gossip about dull people, and the one that I find unceasingly arresting, where people with lives and passions who actually know something and do stuff that can make the world a better place hang out. 

The first one, increasingly out-of-touch with what matters, is Landliner Nation.

The second, where the action is and where people are spending more and more time and money, well, I'm not sure what to call it.

Flautist?

Bueller?

clifyt?

Anyone?

Hermès Baseball Glove

 

The only place in the world you can buy the extra-supple limited-edition mitt is at Hermès new men's store on Madison Avenue in New York City.

[via The New York Times and Luxist]

Why Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17-year-old Russian inventor of Chatroulette, won't be returning home

 

He's currently in the U.S. having a blast and trying not to get suckered into accepting millions of dollars for his company, the hottest thing since sliced bread.

[via The Economist]

Banana Split Banana Peeler — Episode 2: It's back

 

Four years ago I featured this device to much silence.

Then Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing, on what must have been a really slow day there, happened on it and featured it. 

That was on December 7, 2009. 

Cory's got a banana jones — but that's another post.

Ever since he wrote about it, I've gotten requests from people who want but can't get one any more from the original source, which sold it back then for $3.99.

I put my best people on it, pulling them off all the breaking stories and other stuff they were working on here, and charged them with finding a place Cory and his posse could buy one of these nifty devices.

After three weeks of non-stop searching: success.

Even better: it's 25% cheaper than back in 2006.

From the new source:

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Banana Split Banana Peeler

Place ring over banana and pierce skin with flat prongs.

Flip handle up to pop the banana top and being peeling.

Heavy-gauge plastic.

Made in Denmark.

4.4" long.

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As before, TechnoDolt™-friendly.

$2.99 (bananas not included).

Fair warning: don't come crying to me six months from now because they're sold out.

You're lucky to even get this second chance.

What was it F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote?

"There are no second acts in American lives."

Yes, that's it.

And in a rather recondite place.