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My friends at Curious People for a Curious America have a new sketch comedy episode.
Check out the first episode here.

Curious People for a Curious America: Episode 2 from Curious America on Vimeo.

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New iPhone game: Crayon Physics Deluxe
This game is alot like Trace (free). It’s not made by the same creators, but the look and how you interact (by finger) is virtually the same, just a different game. Trace is a really fun game that you should definitely check out.

Meanwhile, Crayon Physics Deluxe is an update to Crayon Physics and created by Petri Purho. The game is based on physics puzzles in a crayon world. You have to create motion to get one object to the next by building a series of contraptions/pulleys using your finger. The game was The Grand Award winner for 2D Physics PC puzzle game in “INDEPENDENT GAMES FESTIVAL” and will be released in January. The cost is a mere $4.99 at the App Store, which isn’t so bad considering there are over 70 levels.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

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Agile Lie Detector for the iPhone
For $8 the Agile Lie Detector uses voice stress analysis, a 3D spectrograph and special lie meter to detect if the speaker of truth/non-truth is lying to you. The results are in real-time, so you can hold it up to someone speaking, hold it up to your computer speakers (test out politician’s speeches on youTube) and see where they start faltering.

(credit: Gizmodo)

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Erin Dollar is obsessed with beards.
She likes guys with beards, musicians with beards, she likes to draw beards and also makes felt beards. I think she’s pretty cool. You can check out her blog (link above) and her ETSY shop.


(credit: LikeCool)

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New Casio Calculator Watches
Casio have updated the geeky black calculator watch with some new patterns and colors. They look pretty darn rad, I think Roo would be happy with one. The colorful ones are priced at $59 a pop, while the black one is $10 more, $69.95

Record information, calculate with ease and keep track of appointments. This watch makes it all possible with its 25-page databank, 8-digit calculator and 5 multi-function alarms (with text).

Tech Specs
* 10 Year Battery
* 25 Page Databank: 8 letters and 15 numerals per page, Auto-sort function
* 13 Language Display
* 8-Digit Calculator: Constants for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
* Auto LED Light with Afterglow
* 4 Multi-function Alarms and 1 Multi-function Alarm with Snooze
* 1/100 second stopwatch
* Hourly Time Signal
* Auto Calendar (pre-programmed until the year 2099)
* 12/24 Hour Formats
* Accuracy: +/-30 seconds per month


(credit: Geek Alerts)

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C|NET posted about a Handy Dandy iPhone app that lets bypass the bull
to connect to AT&T’s free wifi
Just last week while at Starbucks writing thank-yous, I would occasionally hear Roo grumbling and cursing under his breath every time he needed the internet on his iPhone. AT&T has this annoying process where you have to go to safari and put in your phone number and connect. Doesn’t sound hard, but anyone with an iPhone knows that as soon as you close the browser, or set the phone down for a bit, everything connected quits. Also if you want to use other programs like Twitter, Facebook, etc, you can’t use the free wifi cause you weren’t in Safari.

Enter Easy Wi-Fi and start the glorious music. All you have to do is enter your AT&T number into the app’s settings, then when you’re in range of an AT&T hotspot (and the app will verify that you are), you simply hit the “Log In” button, and you’re on your way. Better hurry and get it now, Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T is a free download until Friday, Dec 5th. Link to iTunes : Easy WiFi

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Apple’s top 10 iPhone Apps downloads of 2008
Apple has released several top 10 lists of Apps downloaded since the launch of the App Store this summer. The categories (paid & free): games, entertainment, utilities, social networking, and music
Top Paid Apps (Overall):

1. Koi Pond
2. Texas Hold’em
3. Moto Chaser
4. Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3d
5. Super Monkey Ball
6. Cro-Mag Rally
7. Enigmo (Pangea)
8. Pocket Guitar
9. Recorder
10. iBeer


Top 10 Free Downloads (Overall)
1. Pandora Radio
2. Facebook
3. Tap Tap Revenge
4. Shazam
5. Labryinth Lite Edition
6. Remote
7. Google Earth
8. Lightsaber Unleashed
9. AIM
10. Urban Spoon


Top Paid Games:
1. Texas Hold’em
2. Moto Chaser
3. Crash Bandicoot: Nitro Kart 3d
4. Super Monkey Ball
5. Cro-Mag Rally
6. Enigmo
7. Air Hockey
8. Bejeweled 2
9. Flick Bowling
10. Line Rider iRide


Top Free Games:
1. Tap Tap Revenge
2. Labrynth Lite Edition
3. Sol Free Solitaire
4. iBowl
5. Pac-Man Lite
6. Touch Hockey:FS5
7. Cannon Challenge
8. Audi A4 Driving Challenge
9. Sudoku
10. reMovem


Top Paid Entertainment:
1. Koi Pond
2. iBeer
3. iChalky
4. Face Melter
5. iFish
6. TouchScan
7. What’s on TV?
8. Pocket Piano
9. Sketches
10. OneTap Movies


Top Free Entertainment:
1. Remote
2. Lightsaber Unleashed
3. i.TV
4. BubbleWrap
5. Movies
6. iDoodle 2 lite
7. Showtimes
8. Now Playing
9. Scribble
10. Crazy Pumpkin


Top Paid Utilities:
1. Units (crossroad solutions)
2. A Level
3. Air Mouse
4. Fake Calls
5. Voice Record
6. Clinometer
7. Spell Check
8. Speed Dial
9. FileMagnet
10. iNetwork Speed Test


Top Free Utilities
1. Flashlight
2. myLite Flashlight
3. Say Who - Dialer
4. Units (TheMacBox)
5. Compass Free
6. Alarm Free
7. A Free Level
8. Molecules
9. Speed Test
10. myLighter


Top Paid Social Networking:
1. MobileChat
2. BeejiveIM
3. Quip
4. Rooms - Your Mobile Chat Client
5. Twitterific Premium
6. Flutter
7. Twittelator Pro
8. mBoxMail
9. Secrets
10. hiCard - Suite


Top Free Social Networking:
1. Facebook
2. AIM
3. Myspace Mobile
4. IM+ Lite
5. Loopt
6. Fring
7. Palringo IM
8. Earthscape
9. Twitterific
10. Avatar


Top Paid Music:
1. PocketGuitar
2. Drum Kit
3. Ocarina
4. Pianist
5. Band
6. Tuner Internet Radio
7. Beat Maker
8. Guitar Toolkit
9. Harmonica
10. Guitarist


Top Free Music:
1. Pandora Radio
2. Shazam
3. AOL Radio
4. Midomi
5. Mini Piano
6. iheart Radio
7. MixMeister Scratch
8. FlyCast Mobile Radio
9. Last.FM
10. DigiDrummer Lite


(credit: MobileCrunch)

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Gizmine : The worlds largest Japanese gadget & lifestyle shop
Gizmine is the perfect place to find random gifts. They have a great search bar that will let you search by popularity, newness, color, price, theme, brand, him/her/kids, watches, home/office, headphones, toys, ipod, computer stuff, cameras, mobile phones, robots, and tons more. It’s filled with eye catching, fun looking things. This is my dream come true of fun stufffs.

I really like the navigation too. You get rows of good sized thumbnails of the products, and if you roll over one, a box pops up with all the info, so you don’t have to navigate away from the page if you’re just browsing.

They also offer a New Product Feed to keep you updated on all the new products. There is an additional advanced search option that will allow you to add tags to your original search to narrow things down to your specifications.

(credit: Crunch Gear)

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DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand
Created by Eric Skiff, the DIY stand is made from three pieces of cardboard cut to specifications from the pattern files. See more versions here.


(credit: LikeCool)

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Scientists poured 10 tons of cement into a large colony of ants to
dissect how it was structured.
I hate ants due to the great ant invasion of the summer 2008 in my apartment.
But I have to admit, this is really dang interesting.
Some fun facts about this colony:
-They had a system of ventilation, ducts on top of the ground blew out carbon dioxide
and brought in fresh air.

-They had little pods specifically made to contain garbage.

-This structure covers 538 square feet, and goes down into the earth 26 feet

-The colony moved 40 tons of soil to build the structure

-The size equivalent in human terms is building The Great Wall of China

(credit: Kottke)