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Over the past year we’ve pimped people's profile pics, created 

Differencebetween.net not only facilitates your understanding of a topic, but it also enables you to differentiate two similar subjects. The site provides

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The electric guitar brings back memories for me of exchanging riffs with friends and wearing out cassette tapes as I meticulously learned songs. Today, we’re attempting to recreate that experience with a doodle celebrating the birthday of musician and inventor Les Paul. For the next 24 hours on the Google homepage, you’ll find an interactive, playable logo inspired by the guitar developed

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There is an old story about an illiterate man who was walking along when he saw a rock with a perfect hole drilled right through it. Amazed, the man stopped and looked a bit closer. Upon examination he realized that every few minutes a drop of water fell from the top of a cliff far above and landed on the exact spot where the hole was. It was then that he realized what had happened. One drop of water had little impact on something as hard as the rock, but one drop of water, followed by another and then by another eventually became powerful enough to wear the hole into the rock

an online threshold pledge system for funding creative projects. Kickstarter has funded a diverse array of endeavors,ranging from indie film and music to journalism and food-related projects. One of a new set of fundraising platforms dubbed "crowdfunding", Kickstarter facilitates gathering monetary resources from the general public, a model which circumvents many traditional avenues of investment. Project owners choose a deadline and a target minimum of funds to raise. If the chosen target is not gathered by the deadline, no funds are collected (this is known as a provision point mechanism). Wikipedia

1. Describe yourself in a tweet – and don’t forget the #secretportraits hashtag
2. If your tweet intrigues us, our illustrators will dive into your Twitter profile to find out more about you
3. They’ll draw a secret portrait based on

However, instead of receiving status updates from the companies you follow, you will instead get information such as recent hires and promotions, new job opportunities and company profile updates. “Follow” has been added as a tab on company pages now as

Utah is known for its

Manpacks is... the Netflix of underwear. (As opposed to Underoos... "the underwear that's fun to wear!!")

Manpacks is a subscription service for underwear. Yes, you read that right. With Manpacks you sign up for a skivvies refresh every three months. That way just about the time they are wearing out, shrinking to nothing, or... (use your imagination). Anyway, just when you need them, new underwear show up in your mailbox...

Yes, this is a real eCommerce company that is intended for the bachelor single man guy among us. Seriously. Really. Has it really come to this? We need a subscription tighty-whiteys??? As my grandmother never said, "Oy vey!"

There are four different subscription levels... and what levels they are...

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""I understand you are good with numbers," the lady says. Randy is really racking his brain now. How does this woman know he's a numbers kind of guy? "I'm good with math," he finally says. "Isn't that what I said?" "Nah, mathematicians stay away from actual, specific numbers as much as possible. We like to talk about numbers without actually exposing ourselves to them—that's what computers are for."

Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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The App Star Awards is the first contest to highlight and reward new iPhone apps eventually heading to the App Store … 30 apps will be preselected and our prestigious Jury will pick 3 lucky winners in each category (game, entertainment, utility and other).

The jury members include a whole bunch of well-known and hugely

Thanks to my friends here on Gear Diary I've found some neat sites that I didn't previously know about but now read daily. In fact a few months back I simply copied Larry's Google Reader subscription list into mine and then removed the duplicates. The end result... WAY too many feeds to stay on top of but that isn't a bad thing.

It is kind of neat to realize that the varied interests of everyone on the site results in exposure to things that we might not otherwise hear of. To leverage that we're adding a Facebook note to