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Friday Smackdown: The Beans Have It

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It’s one thing if you’re just standing there waiting for the subway to come by, it’s a completely different thing if you’re standing there minding your business, maybe reading a paper, and someone throws beans point-blank into your face. These links help the stinging though.

Creatures in my Head - The enchanting and wonderful illustrative works of Andrew Bell will not give you nightmares.
Twingly - the greatest of blog search engine launched yesterday. Subscribing to searches and looking at blog profiles is way fun.
Google Reader Easter Egg - Special things await the one that uses the Konami Code (up up down down left right left right b a) in Google Reader. Thanks noych!
Hotpads.com - Home search that helps find the coolest place to live.
DIY Planner Kits - Release your obsessions and get organized with the ultimate in free ‘Getting Things Done” planner templates.
Photojojo Father’s Day Gift Guide - You have two days left to get something nice for pops. This may spur some ideas.. or some guilt.
A Weekend with Warren Buffett - What one question would you ask the richest man in the world? Here’s what Tim Ferriss asked.

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Friday Smackdown: Elimination Mode

I picked’em off one by one, but it was actually the giant multi-headed caterpillars that really made things a mess. Had to use these links to clean up.

Spiral Coverpop - Jim Bumgardner can make photos pop-up. These are Spirals from Flickr. Check out the other ones too.
DIY Ballistics Gel - You never know when you’ll need to pour a gel encasement around you to stop a bullet. Thanks Ben.
Glide OS - A very slick multi-platform syncing tool. It should always be this easy really.
Picasa2Flickr - Finally! This great Picasa plug-in to upload photos to Flickr has been upgraded! Get it!
Gmail Labs - The last Tab in your setting has cool new feature you can test out in Gmail. Try the mouse gestures!
Slow-Motion punches - Looks kinda rough… but also kinda funny.

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Friday Smackdown: Sawdust Eye

Man! this is just stingin’ like crazy! I’d think I’d rather fall on top of a bowl of boiling gravy and incredible links.

Compfight - The best, and I mean, THE BEST, Flickr search tool. good options and fast as milk.
The Drugstore Game - Save hundreds. Seriously. My wife and are are doing this very thing today to get $30 worth of free stuff at Walgreens.
BrandDoozie - Make really slick marketing material for your biz, really fast and really free. Lots of options too.
Trulia Snapshot - A sweet interface for finding a home to buy or land to plant cabbage on. It’s all interactive like.
FlyClear.com - Cut the security lines at airports and save a ton of time, while mocking those standing in line.
Plants for your health - Plants that will remove toxins from the air, but unfortunately will not remove people from the air.

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Friday Smackdown: Amazin’ Bean

That’s what I called it, and nobody dared challenged me. Being covered in oil, cayenne pepper and these links probably helped.

40 Professional Free Icon Sets - The best darn icon sets I’ve seen the last couple days. Box icons, food icon, and, yes, even some 3D icons.
SmallWorld - A 3D Virtual World? Inside your browser? Play games and watch videos together? Pigs can fly?
All about ROWE - eww, business stuff. But, I bet you would love working anywhere, anytime. yeah, I thought so.
The Telectroscope - A tunnel between New York or London? or a broadband network? you decide.
Hubcap Creatures - your life will never be the same. That’s all I’m gonna say.
20 ways to learn language online - Like you need 20 right? well, one of these is bound to get you into trouble with new words and phrases.

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Friday Smackdown: Step to the Left

electronic architechture bookYes’m, the sky split open like one of them biscuit cans and then my mama takes out this laser shootin’ thing, but these links were downright mean I tell ya.

Piel.Skin Contemporary Architecture - An online architechture book, but whats cool about this is the live link to Google Maps that shows where the buildings are.
How to Make a Physical Gmail Notifier - I love the links my brother finds. They use a lighted cub, but police sirens would be more approriate.
TwittBuzz - What’s going on in the Twit-osphere? THIS is. Shows real-time most linked-to topics being discussed on Twitter.
Vistas Best Features on XP - They’re not all in one program, but you may find something cool, like that 3D screen flippin’ stuff.
Free Photoshop book - A totally free, and totally useful book for getting graphics going on the web with PS. Yes, that is really cool.
BrandTags.com - What one word would you use to describe SolidSmack? This site shows what people feel a brand is.

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Friday SmackDown: Tiny and Creepy

Yes, it was very tiny and I don’t think it had any eyelids, which made it all the more creepy. I’m glad you have eyelids, they look good on you with these links.

Thomas Doyle Miniatures Art - Tiny but not necessarily cute. Miniature people in odd and surreal situations.
Addictomatic - The is what I use to search topics now. It’s customizable and it feels like your searching everything.
Webmaster and SEO Optimization Tools - Who wouldn’t like a little optimization right? A great list of free and useful tools to help you out.
EverNote - In beta, but signup, you will want to use this to capture any information you want really fast on any type of device.
PassPack - All your passwords in one spot. This is one of the single best online tools out there and the security is phenomenal.

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Friday Smackdown: This Be Viscious

web charactersIndescribably small and cuddly, the albino water dragon can suddenly turn on his owner, devouring him and unleashing the fury that are these snazzy links.

Cool Web Characters
- Just think, one day you could be an illustrated character online. Something to aim for anyway.
XSketch - an online social pictionary-type game. Highly addictive and time consuming like online games should be.
German Script - Yes, this is a page of just Old German Script. The difference of some is really interesting to me.
The Art of Asking - Some people..not so good at this. Amazingly, sometimes the right question has nothing to do with the topic being discussed… and sometimes it’s just nice to waste someone’s time with obscure questions.
ReadyMech Cameras - Print and build your own pinhole cameras. cool designs, no lens, endless possibilities.
It’s Our Tree.com - I do a bit of genealogy stuff. This is a cool web2.0 family tree maker. Cool visualizations and gedcom import. nice.

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Friday Smackdown: Magic Water Babies

kid-drawing-photos.jpgNo, seriously, they came out of nowhere and took my toothpicks, canteen and a small stash of onions in my back pockets… Left me with these stupid links.

Dipity - Why does someone always think of a way to create interactive timelines before I do? This is so seriously cool.
Vibram FiveFingers - Hey look hon, gloves for my feet. he! no slipping on mossy rocks anymore. I’m getting one of each color.
Blowtorch - Your chance to pitch a movie, go shoot it and be cool… or be really lame at pitching movies.
Tools for your Video Career - With these, the video you come up above may be less lame. Some good info on liveStreaming and distro.
CreativeSpace Image Search - a really quick and fun way to find photos. Wish some programs I use had search functions like this’un.
Interpretive Kid Drawing Photos - or somethin’. This is what kid drawings would look like through the interpretive lens of a photographer.

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Friday Smackdown: Man Down

1903s-color-photos.jpgAnd then, when I fell off the top of the fence, this tiny possum army carried me off to a tree to have some cake and visit these useful links.

1930’s Color Photos - The Library of Congress has a Flickr Account with color photos from when a roll of film cost more than a days wage.
FontCubes - My secret obsession with cool fonts finds a home. My new favorite site for type.
Stylish - An add-on I use in FireFox to change website style. I use this one for Gmail. Much more rockin’.
Yodlee - I’m using this to pay bills with a credit card, get airline miles and mange finances. Amazingly helpful.
9 Free Vector Graphics - Like Vector graphics? want to know more about them? Here are nine free ones for ya.

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Friday Smackdown: 10 Bean Burritos

some-ecards.jpgImagine that. All them misbehavin’ beans there have uploaded themselves to the Interweb to start an anti-literacy campaign. I didn’t know beans had interesting literature, or links like these.

Drop.io - Quickly share files. I mean quick. Drop 100MB like its hot.
SomeEcards.com - Yeh, ecards. Ok, some of these are REALLY inappropriate… but some are really funny so that makes it ok.
Remember the Milk - I don’t use this, but if I needed to manage tasks I probably would.
Adobe.tv - Looky here, another online TV, but this one is from Adobe. I hear they’ll be getting other shows.
WorldClock - The stats of the world dynamically making you realize that a lot of people are dying and pumping oil.
FontStruct - Saved the coolest for last. Create and Share your own Fonts. For a font geek like me this is bleepin’ cool.

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