Beautiful Notebooks
Field Notes, of course.
Put some on your advent calendar.
U2 Covered
Usually I don’t like when bands cover other bands songs, unless it’s in live concerts. But, this is a HUGE exception. I love ‘Ahctoong Baybi Covered’. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Patti Smith, Depeche Mode, Jack White, The Killers and others covered Achtung Baby, U2′s 1991 hit record.
All proceeds will benefit Concern Worldwide’s work in famine-stricken areas of East Africa.
Get it now, on iTunes!
Make Your Own Coffee Table Book
Blurb:
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them.
This is how I will make my cookbook!
Early Xmas Present?
What I want for Christmas:
A limited, numbered Uber Deluxe Edition is a magnetic puzzle tiled box which will contain: 6 CDs including the original Achtung Baby album, the follow-up album, Zooropa, B-sides, remixes and re-workings of previously unheard material recorded during the Achtung Baby sessions. 4 DVDs including ‘From The Sky Down’, ‘Zoo TV:Live From Sydney’, all the videos from Achtung Baby plus bonus material. There will also be the Achtung Baby double vinyl album plus 5 clear 7″ vinyl singles in their original sleeves, 16 art prints taken from the original album sleeve, an 84-page hardback book, a copy of Propaganda magazine, 4 badges, a sticker sheet, and a pair of Bono’s trademark ‘The Fly’ sunglasses.
Fly sunglasses people… fly sunglasses. This is fucking brilliant!
Trixy? Trixy, are you listening??
Watch the video to see the full deal.
Man, I want those glasses!
Worlds Collide
On the same day that swissmiss posted the remote control space man on her blog, the Holiday toy catalogue of our favorite local toy store showed up in our mailbox with, you guessed it, that space man in it.
Thermostat For Geeks
Never once before, and not since every geek needed a digital watch back in highschool, have geeks been this excited about something as mundane as a thermostat. Yeah, a thermostat.
The iPod’s Inventor Strikes Out On His Own, And Invents…A Thermostat?!
I really wanted to make fun of the fact that every geek is going to post a link to this today. But then I watched the video, and now I want one too.
Inventions like these are the proof that America is not down and out quite yet. Inventions like these are.
Ebook Or Hardcover
I can’t decide between the hardcover or the ebook version of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, an obvious must-read. But in what version?
Angry Birds Ham’O’Ween
My love for that silly little game Angry Birds started last year with the Halloween Edition of Angry Birds Seasons and Rovio just released their latest update Ham’O’Ween.
Must. Play. All. Night!
Steve Jobs On Android
The book also provides insight into the unraveling of Jobs’ relationship with Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and an Apple board member from 2006 to 2009.
“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
From the upcoming Steve Jobs biography, written by Walter Isaacson.
Can’t wait to read it. I just can’t decide if I should read it on the iPad, and make it the first book to read on the iPad, essentially as a tribute to Steve. Or if I should get the hardcover book, because that’s how I want to own it for posterity.
New Way To Take A Picture
Meet the Lytro.
Everyone is talking about it. love the simplicity, very attractive.
What The Troll?
That’s right, there is now a Chia Fremont Troll. And, yes, he has a Twitter account.
‘Fire Spotter’ Already Sold Out
Latest limited edition Field Notes Colors: Fire Spotter is already sold out in individual 3packs. You can now only get them as part of the Color subscription package.
Crazy, I wanted some. And Hello, Coudal, we need more of those…!
Which really brings me to the Color subscription package which is really is a great deal once you calculated this all out. They made it quite hard to figure out what the savings are, but I think I got it. And should subscribe now… while the Fire Spotter edition is still out… hmmm…