Top 10 Apps via WSJ

Wall Street Journal identifies the Top 10 Apps to change your life

Passive iPhone Speaker

From Science & Sons, The PHIII is a passive, non-powered amp

Wodtalk magazine

A new and exciting online magazine for Crossfit enthusiasts.  WODtalk

iPad Typewriter

This is ridiculously cool and impractical - it's a typewriter modified as a usb keyboard - via Etsy

LED Football on iOS

My favorite portable gameof all time - LED football

Ten Commandments of TED

Love this - Ten Commandments of TED

Sony's new NEX-7

Wow does this mirrorless camera look amazing - NEX-7

How Marty McFly met Doc Brown

Straight from the source

Printing from an iPad

Have an iPad and need to print?  Check this out.

Ancestral Health Symposium

The most influential Doctors behind the Paleo movement were brought together at a symposium and their talks were recorded here

Most interesting were Dr. Eades and Matt LaLonde - but they are all fascinating.

Steve Jobs Outfit Through the years

via Gizmodo

Achtung Baby

Crazy reissue of Achtung Baby with 6 cds and 4 DVDs

Klinggon

Love this Kickstarter project - it's a neat earbud clip

Klinggon

Ready Player One

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline - found out about this book and am very excited for it's release.  If you are a product of the mid-eighties pop culture then it's definitely a must read

Neatoshop

Just discovered the Neatoshop - cool geeky stuff

Harry Potter Cast - through the Years

Harry Potter cast grow up

Brand New Classic Cars

WSJ article on the New Classic Car Business

More Evidence that Counting Calories Doesn't Work

Counting Calories?  Your Weight-Loss Plan May Be Outdated via NY Times

Japanese Pens and more

Japanese pens (and all their stationary) is the best in the world!  Check out this link to get some stateside:

JetPens

Free handwritten snailmail of your email

Snail Mail My Email

The Incomparable Podcast

Another good geeky podcast - at this rate I'll never listen to my music again:

The Incomparable Podcast

The Bob Harrington Show

I stumbled across an excerpt of this podcast in The Latest in Paleo podcast and really like to see an impartial science based discussion about low-carb (and they get it right).

Atkins, diet, obesity, and cardiovascular disease risk with Dr Eric Westman

Wolverine 1000 Mile 2012 Collection

Wolverine 1000 Mile 2012 Collection via Alex Grant

Columbia's Best Beans

Fantastic long article on Wired.com about coffee in Columbia:

Sip, Spit, Grade

Now this is Motivation

Top 20 motivational pictures

Think Different Posters

In my mind this was the best Apple marketing campaign ever - check out the posters:

Think Different

Are You a Mac or PC?

via Hunch Blog - nice infographic

Jay Leno's Garage

Jay has a fantastic blog and is an engaging writer - check it out:

Jay Leno's Garage

Khan Academy iPad App is coming

This is great news - the Khan Academy iPad app is moving forward on the development path:

Khan Academy iPad App Progress

Khan Academy

CocoCozy

I love design (and I'm an Accountant during the day - go figure), check out this site:

CocoCrazy

Board Game Q&A Site

I love board games and I love Stack Exchange:


Board and Card Games on Stack Exchange

Netbook to Chromebook

Have an old netbook that you aren't using anymore?  Check out this post on Lifehacker that steps you through upgrading (?) to Chrome OS:

Netbook to Chromebook

Put This On

I really love Jordan, Jesse, Go - it's a fun podcast - I just discovered Jordan has a style blog and video podcast called Put This On, check it out:

Put This On

A Dance with Dragons Event

My local Barnes & Noble is having a signing event for A Dance with Dragons tonight - I can only imagine the craziness:


George R.R. Martin - A Dance With Dragons

7 Tips for a Photographer Traveling With Kids

Found this article from The Digital Photography Schoole - great tips:

7 Tips for a Photographer Traveling With Kids

Crane's Beach

Voted #1 on Boston.com - this is the best beach in Massachusetts:

Crane's Beach

iPhone DSLR lens Mount

And I thought my 70-200mm looked ridiculous on my Sony NEX-5:

iPhone DSLR lens Mount via PhotoJoJo

Hipstamatic

I love Hipstamatic - my go to favorite iPhone photo app:

Hipstamatic

Swiss-Miss

Just discovered this site after listening to The Pipeline, Swiss-Miss is Tina Roth Eisenberg's design blog, getting more than 900,000 views a month:

Swiss-Miss

Need a Productivity Boost - Try Pomodoro

Been flirting with the Pomodoro Technique lately to counteract my summer blahs at work:

Pomodoro Technique

The Presurfer: Top 100 Images Hubble Images

Follow this link to some amazing Hubble telescope shots


The Presurfer: Top 100 Images Hubble Images

Vintage Stickers

Presurfer posted a link to a Flckr account with hundreds of vintage stickers:

The Presurfer: All Kinds Of Stickers

Kickstarter

How can you not love Kickstarter - amazing and interesting projects and the ability to be part of it:

Kickstarter

Time Lapse Video - the Vastness of Space

This video really drives home my earlier post about Carl Sagan :

Time Lapse Video

and you absolutely need to check out their site - Terrastro:

terrastro.com

Capture App

I'm sure this has happened to you, I know it's happened to me, looking to capture a quick video - you select the camera app on your iPhone and then realize your in photo mode, by the time you switch over the moment is gone.  I found this app through wired.com, it starts recording the second you select the app.  Very cool - and hopefully, no more missed opportunities:

Capture App Review via Wired

StandUp Desks

I've been looking at stand up desks lately and came across this nice one and a website that sells all kinds:

GeekDesk

Stand-Up Desks

How Would You Measure Your Life

This quesiton on Quora really made me think:

How Would You Measure Your Life

321 Apparel

Cool looking Crossfit clothing:

321

Kelly Starrett @ Google

This is a great talk about sitting at your desk all day form Kelly Starrett (crossfit & MobilityWOD superstar)

Kelly Starrett @GoogleTalks

Happy 4th and a Link for Civic Mindfulness

Interested in researching a bill in congress - check out OpenCongress for a non-partisan complete update on any bill currently in congress:

OpenCongress

Smashing Magazine's Desktop Wallpapers

For a few years now, Smashing Magazine pulls together monthly wallpapers, available with calendar and without, from design professionals and artists and makes them available for free, check them out:

Smashing Magazine

Olympus EP-3

Phoblographer has a nice hands on review of the new Olympus EP-3, Olympus' new micro 4/3rds camera (one of three announced):

Olympus EP-3 Hands-on via Phoblographer

WODTalk Magazine

There's a new unofficial Crossfit magazine that just launched their premier issue - downloadable as a pdf - WODTalk Magazine - check them out:

WODTalk

History of the Space Shuttle in Pictures

Some stunning, fun (picture of the original Star Trek cast at a PR event) and unintentionally (check out photo #56) frightening photos of the Space Shuttle program via The Atlantic:

History of the US Space Shuttle

107 Best Sites on the Web

From Makeuseof.com - a nice list, with a geeky bent:


107 Best Websites via makeuseof.com

Physics of Cheating in Baseball

I love Presurfer - and they are an inspiration for what I am trying to do with this site - great link to the science behind baseball:

Physics of Cheating in Baseball via Presurfer

New da Vinci Painting Discovered

Via Gizmodo:

Leonardo da Vinci - Salvator Mundi

The Numbers League

I discovered this card game a number of years ago and thought it would be a great way to introduce basic math to my kids in a way that they would enjoy.  We've continued to play it and have progressed to the more difficult expansions.  I just found out it's available as an iPad app - check out the Wired review:

Numbers League for iPad

Blog Recommendation

Just stumbled across this stream of conciousness blog -

You've Broken The Internet

ePatient Dave on TED

A friend of mine, Dave DeBronkart was fortunate to be invited to speak at TED - check out his amazing story and what he advocates:

e-Patient Dave at TED

Olympus PEN E-P3

Olympus announced three new micro 4/3rds cameras - this one being the most interesting - they also announced a number of new, interesting lenses:

Olympus PEN E-P3 via dpreview.com

The Paleo DIet and Multiple Sclerosis

More proof that a lot of our autoimmune diseases have roots back to our diet:

Dr. Cordain on Paleo and MS

The Case For Mars

An update to the book and compelling case for more Mars research -


Why we must plan to settle on Mars via io9

Make Facebook look like Excel

Can't stand the obsession with Facebook and think that it's a huge productivity suck at work - but this is cool:


Disguise Facebook as Excel via Unplggd

A New Crossfit Podcast

I can't get enough of Crossfi, I love the training program and the lifestyle evolving out of it.  The UnRx Podcast is a new entry in a relatively unpopulated field, check them out:

UnRx Podcast

Two Google Projects Get Shut Down

This is a bit sad, Google is shutting down Google Health and Google PowerMeter - two very influential and groundbreaking projects due to lack of user involvement.  I think Google was just ahead of the curve on this one and I wish they kept them going until a real legitimate business developed.  It's not like it was killing them from a cash flow standpoint:

Shutdown via Mashable

MAKE - 10 Projects to do with Kids

I like this list of projects to do with the kids, now that summer is here, not sure I have the skill for someof these but, worth a shot:

MAKE: 10 Projects

John Doerr - How to be a Remarkable Leader

I ran across this video through a Quora question asking if John's take on "family First" was genuine - it's a great video and Chi-Hua Chen's response on Quora is excellent and concise:

Youtube

Quora

Young Me Old Me

Ze Frank is an interesting guy and his site is a constant source of amusement.  Even though this is by no means a hidden treasure, I love visiting Young Me Old Me every once in a while:

Young Me Old Me

Kettlebells

Rogue Fitness makes very high quality gym equipment, and is the "Sears Christmas Wish Book" for Crossfitters, check out these Kettlebells:

Kettlebells via Rogue Fitness

Dr. Faustman sees remarkable Type I Diabetes Results

This is amazing and very encouraging, Dr. Faustman has been working on a cure for Type I diabetes using an off-patent TB drug that she has succesfully used on mice.  She now has published a successful trial on humans:


Dr. Faustman

Scrivener

Just downloaded a 10 day trial - writing software that is a very different take than Word

Scrivener

Anne Frank - Only Known Video

I showed this one to my kids after they read The Diary of Anne Frank, it's pretty powerful.  It's a short clip showing Anne Frank looking out a window prior to WWII, in 1941 - about 4 years before her death.  Guess what - she looks and acts like an ordinary, innocent, excited little girl:

Anne Frank Video Link via All Things Digital

Awesome People Hanging Out Together

This blog perfectly sits in the crossroads of really cool, bizarre and WTF photos of celebrities and amazingly famous people photographed together in casual settings:

Awesome People Hanging Out

Merlin Mann - Cranking

Merlin Mann lays it all out there in a very personal, very deep and amazing short piece on his site, 43folders.

Cranking

Gary Taubes Rules

I watched the first part of this debate between Gary Taubes, Dean Ornish, Barbara Howard and Dr. Oz.  I love how smart and well researched Taubes comes across in this discussion, while Howard, the AHA rep appears dismissive, angry and ultimately unfounded:

Youtube Video

Pale Blue Dot

Check out this amazing thread on Quora and really examine the photo of earth from 3.7 billion miles away,  Carl Sagan said, "From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

Iconic Images

Everyone needs a pocket knife

Pocket knives are extremely useful and anyone can find the right knife in the blog post, via Red Clay Soul:

Pocket Knives

Drawer Organization from Daily Grommet

Interesting way to organize your kitchen drawers

Custom Drawer Organization

Not your fathers resume

Check out this post on 7 different resumes to give you inspiration over on Mashable:

7 Ingenious Resumes

Lilliputian Raise Money

A company I once worked at has raised additional VC money:

Lilliputian via Xconomy

Steve Martin, more than comedy

In his own words, on Smithsonian.com back in 2008, this is really interesting stuff and there is a lot more there than comedy:

Steve Martin

Pottermore

Who isn't excited about Pottermore - I love that Rowling has kept ownership of the digital rights to her books and she has figured out a way to extend the brand:

Pottermore

iHealth

Came across this Blood Pressure cuff via Gear Patrol, connecting to an iphone and enabling you to track readings is interesting:

iHeath

Everyday Carry

I love this blog, posts are carefully composed shots of equipment, electronics, etc that people carry in their pockets every day.

EDC

Timeboxing and more procrastination links

Reading through the earlier blog post on procrastination led me to this site, All Japanese All The Time, and the article below.  I really like his writing style and am going to dig into the site a little more - in the meantime:

How to Accomplish Great Things

Wear this not that

Nice article on small changes to sharpen up your business casual wardrobe:

EffortlessGent

Nice Computer Desk

Bluelounge has a really nice computer desk - with excellent cable management:

Blue Lounge Studio Desk

Favorite Cocktails

Gourmet's favorite cocktails and how to make them:

Classic Cocktail Recipes

Procrastination

This is a pretty deep discussion of procrastination on one of my new favorite blogs:
LessWrong - How to beat procrastination

The Main Page:
LessWrong