http://www.fresharrival.com/blog one amazingly cool thing, every day. Mon, 12 May 2008 08:14:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The flip & tumble is a reusable, lightweight nylon bag with a 25lb weight capacity. That's cool and potentially very useful, but what makes this bag awesome is the "flip and tumble" aspect... Basically it folds into itself, making a palm-sized ball that you can bring/keep just about anywhere. ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/12/flip-tumble/ The FridgeFork seems like a cool little product to have around, either in your fridge, at picnics or both. It's basically a clip/fork that hangs on the side of jars so you always know where it is. Simple, useful, convenient. I like it. VISIT SITE http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/11/fridgefork/ Take a look at that picture right there. That's the office space of none other than Pixar. What follows are 9 more "annoyingly brilliant office interiors." There are some great looking workspaces here, and of course, they all make me resent the (comparatively) drab environment that I go to each ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/10/brilliant-office-interiors/ The Newseum is, well, a museum of news and journalism that used to be in Virginia, but less than a month ago reopened on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. after being closed for 6 years. Each day, on their website, they display over 600 front pages of newspapers in PDF ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/09/todays-front-pages/ SomethingStore is a site with a simple aim... you send them $10, they send you something. That's pretty much it. From the site: "Yours may be a cool gadget, rare book, table game, handmade necklace, reverse clock, box of gourmet chocolates, set of shiny shower curtains, popular video ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/08/somethingstore/ Today, the FreshArrival motto, "One amazingly cool thing, every day", would be an understatement. In fact, if you count all of the incredible little web-apps or tools on this page, there are 27 cool things. But I'll leave the counting to you. You may recognize isnoop.net from the now-defunct Gmail invite spooler, ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/07/isnoopnet/ No, not *that* WWF (besides, they're WWE now). These posters for the World Wildlife Fund are incredibly clever. I love how they get the message across without the need for large amounts of text or anything drawing attention away from the picture. They deal with topics ranging from global warming ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/06/wwf-posters-done/ This short film sounds incredibly interesting, and just looks amazing. Here's the synopsis from the film's site: The Animal Book is the story of two sisters who exist in a threatening world of giant machinery; a city of cog-mechanized buildings, where cars cruise shark-like through the streets. Even their sun is ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/05/the-animal-book/ Our friends at AudioEngine recently released their newest product, a pair of devices that work seamlessly to let you stream music from one room to another. They've dubbed them the AW1. In my testing, they work brilliantly, and couldn't be simpler to set up and use. Nearly identical in ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/02/audioengine-aw1-wireless-adapter/ Magic Pen is a Flash game that combines the laws of physics and crayon drawing to create a unique experience that will result in the death of a lot of your time. How many levels can you beat? VISIT SITE Also, Worldometers is both amazing and depressing, depending on what section ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/05/01/magic-pen/ and the San Francisco International Film Festival, one of the oldest film festivals in the US, began April 24. This, along with the interminably titled San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, is one I never miss. The past couple of years have been great ones, as far as my ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/04/30/its-film-festival-season-here-in-san-francisco/ What is an Eggcorn? I just found out a few days ago, and thought I'd share. An eggcorn, simply put is, according to GOOD Magazine "a type of common and somewhat logical language goof named after a misspelling of “acorn." The best way to illustrate this is with ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/04/29/eggcorns/ If you read a lot of blogs, chances are pretty good that you subscribe to them in Google Reader. ReadBurner turns the Google Reader feature of sharing an item with your friends into something more social and publicly available. Basically it's the del.icio.us/popular page for Google Reader. ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/04/28/readburner/ I chanced upon this in Catalog and if you ever get lonely in your cubicle, you gotta get Tengu. Tengu lights up and lip-syncs to music, or your voice, or whatever noise happens to be around at the time. Tengu has different facial expressions that you can match to different ... http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2008/04/27/tengu/