Genius nutcracker - Put a nut on the stainless steel base, place the flexible rubber dome on top, and then mash the rubber dome with your fist. Tada, the nut is cracked.

(thx, boingboing)

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Cat returns home after 10 years - Thank goodness for microchipping. Imagine seeing your pet again after 10 years. Ridiculous.

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Whenever I tune into NPR, I inevitably hear the part of the program where they announce the “sponsored by” companies. I usually hear this:

… and brought to you by Medtronic. Medtronic, saluting graduates in the fields of science and health.

All I can think is, “Saluting the graduates, yes. Hiring them, no.”

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Torchlight 2007 Registration - Go! Register for the Torchlight Run! Go go go!

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“This is a Really Long, Pointless Story about a Shirt” - A prominent coder/software developer/owner of Delicious Monster in the Mac community writes about his experiences with the importance of wearing nice shirts. For example:

I didn’t exactly hit on Laurie, per se, but I will say I was glad I was wearing a nice shirt. It wasn’t until the next night that one of her friends let me know, in a very friendly manner, that if I had intentions towards Ms. Anderson I might reconsider them, because she was, in fact, as interested in women as I was.

Read on for more shirt story goodness.

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Derek K. Miller and cancer - Stunningly honest and straightforward blogging from Derek Miller, a 38 year old family man with stage 4 metastatic colorectal cancer. When I read his writing, it puts my life, with it’s myriad “problems” and “difficulties” in sharp perspective. Thinking about what he’s going through, it makes me feel very sad.

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50/50 Sheets - With a lovely red line down the middle, so you never have an argument about who is stealing covers.

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If you look at them far enough away, trees look like big weeds.

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