The End of Aught Five

[random]
One last thought for 2005-
Charles Nelson Reilly = Fred Schneider

Photoshop Bling Tutorial

[www]
Christmas is just days away and you still can't find that
perfect gift? No cash? Time to bust out Photoshop and
*make* a certificate good for some future 'bling:'

http://ga2so.com/bling.html

[Also would be good for that Mix CD you were going to burn]

For you Holiday/ Christmas Enjoyment

[www]
Chewbacca sings!

http://christmaschebacca.ytmnd.com/

Fun with Faces

[www]
Find your celebrity-twin with facial mapping software site:

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/face_recognition.php?s=1&lang=EN

NYT: Would You Like Some Fries With That Download?

[www, mp3]
"If the Walt Disney Company has its way, McDonald's Happy Meal toys
could be replaced with portable media players that hold Disney movies,
music, games or photos, according to a pending patent application.
Users could add files to the devices by earning points with food
purchases."

Read it all at: http://tinyurl.com/d962f

(And how soon would these be hacked just like those one-time-use
camcorders from CVS?)

Look: Live Local

[www]
Hideous name but the Redmond crowd remains hot on the heels of
Google Maps and Google Earth (which is to have an OS X version
soon!) with 'Windows Live Local'. Not sure why the name-change
and the 'Windows' naming scheme as I am looking at Disneyland on
my PowerBook running Tiger 10.4, but I guess much like Victoria's
Secret having everything from bras to perfume be Angel-this and
Angel-that, you have to repeat the brand name until it becomes
second nature.

Yahoo! Buys del.icio.us

[www]
From the del.icio.us/blog comes word that, "del.icio.us has joined
the Yahoo! family."

Some days I feel like an unpaid beta-tester for those guys....

Name Your Tune

[www, iTunes]
Tunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and
creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you
listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a
few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes analyzing your
collection and generating the audio signature.

http://www.jasonfreeman.net/itsm/

WordSpy

[www]
ubersexual (oo.bur.SEK.shoo.ul)

n. A heterosexual man who is masculine, confident,
compassionate, and stylish. —adj.
—ubersexuality n.

[politics]