Just discovered this store along Atlantic Avenue. It's owned by a female designer who sells t-shirts, jewelry, handbags and housewares. There are also some classes on various crafty things. I got a t-shirt with the infamous Heinz ketchup packet. It's not on the site, but is similar to this.

 I definitely recommend popping by if you're in the hood, or just feeling some love for the BK.

Why isn't this on the front page of every newspaper?!

I saw this sign on the LES a few nights ago – seemed like a brilliant idea at the time, but check out these portable charging options:

Turbo Cell Charger (Feel the POWER!!!)
SOS Charger (Crank it)

It's rare to see a company so masterfully market to women.
Even if it means an odd kind of "all-in-one" shampoo.

Oddcast is the company that makes those horrifyingly creepy Avatars like "Anna" from Ikea (scroll down). They also have cornered the market on interactive audio. Check out this campaign for Comcast. The technology for recording your voice, or dialing it in, was created by Oddcast. Big Spaceship is doing something similar for a project and I've been unable to find any competitors. As it stands, audio is still spotty on the web, but as video is becoming more and more popular, audio will start to become increasingly important as well. I'm surprised there aren't more companies offering these services.

Just got this email from DSW's brilliant marketing team. White is right this season?

The debate rages on …

Although us children of the 80's know from school lunches that boxed drinks are and always have been quite delicious, the wine crowd hesitates.

From the WNYC site:

A Good Box of Wine

Celebrity chef Daniel Boulud and sommelier Daniel Johnnes think box wines have gotten a bad rap. They join us to describe the merits of drinking wine from a box.

Google recently added Google Talk to its services and unlike their other launches, there was no long-awaited invitation of exclusive membership. Google Talk just appeared in the left nav of Gmail one day. I didn't even realize I had it until a friend of mine who also uses Gmail and happens to be in my address book sent me a message.

I haven't had any problems with it and am always eager to try the latest Gwhatever, so I didn't think twice about it, until I was discussing it with a friend. The new Google Talk/Gmail poses this problem: when you log on to Gmail, you're automatically logged into Google Talk, unless you specify otherwise. This means that anyone who also uses Gmail knows when your accessing your email.

So any emails that you've been delayed in responding to, or are flat-out refusing to respond to, can come back to haunt you. A simple, "I've been soo busy I haven't even had time to check my personal email!" wont' do. It makes those little white lies that are often necessary to balancing life priorities and needy friends complicated.

I realize that in a perfect world, we would always be honest and simply say: "I haven't had time to reply." or "I wanted to make you wait a few days for my response." or even "I wish I never met you or given you my email address." But, in reality, there is a need to occasionally "hide" from each other and technology should allow for that.

This has always been a problem for me with AIM. I'm a terribly chatty person, but even I sometimes need to buckle down and get to work. As it stands, I can be invisible to my entire buddy list, but it would be great if on a particularly busy day, I could hide from my friends list, but remain available to co-workers.

A former co-worker always keeps his AIM on "Away" so he can be selective in responding and still spare feelings. Theoretically, this is a good idea, but there's always that lingering, is this person really away or just ignoring my message?

And what about people who are in your proximity, see that you're at your computer, and know that you're not really "away" regardless of what your message says? Maybe you just need to chat with people you're working with on a particular project, and don't have time to flirt with that guy from media?

I don't advocate that technology should be an enabler of less than perfect aspects of human interaction, but the dynamics in communication are not quite so straightforward as technology sometimes allows.

I thought CPR stood for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The NYPD, however, has to co-opted this anacronym to mean: Courtesy, Professionalism and Respect.

When my massive intakes of caffeine, nicotine and stress catch up with my heart, please know that I need the former and not the latter. Unless they I can get a combo of CPR with CPR, in which case, kudos.

My achy breaky heart always loses any sentimentally over the South when I go home to visit and see things like this. It's a plaque that was by this cpr kit, it reads: "for your achy breaky heart, this life saving device was donated by the billy ray cyrus charity foundation."