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ThinkGeek website is offering a new wifi-enabled alarm clock that will make you think twice before hitting that snooze button each morning. According to the site, the device ‘connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze’.

Their suggested uses:

Are you a butcher? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to PETA
Are you a republican? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the ACLU!
Are you a land developer? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the Wilderness Society!
Enjoy your freedom? (Blue state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the GOP. or
Enjoy your freedom? (Red state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to MoveOn.Org
Are you a hippie? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the American Coal Foundation.

Are you a snoozer? How many times do you hit the snooze button each morning and to which organization would you begrudgingly lose your money if you had this alarm clock?

Never mention Hotmail in your CV. The HR department of a company was looking for someone with ample internet experience. From a pool of 50 candidates, they promptly discarded 30 resumes because of hotmail e-mail addresses. Afterall, you can’t be much of an internet specialist and still use Hotmail. It’s all about the Gmail, friends.

The Page Paradigm - “On any given Web page, users will either click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal, or click the Back button on their Web browser.”

Cool. Google has just released a new tool called Google Patent Search. It currently searches through over 7 million patents; so far, it seems much better than the US Patent and Trademark Office’s search feature.

Here’s an interesting page with the subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale. They admit that the Moscow diagram isn’t quite to the proper scale and the spokes don’t extend far enough out. While we’re on that topic, check out this article on Underground Typography and this collection of metro logos from around the world.

If the corporate world redesigned their logos by Web 2.0 design practices. Some of these are actually half decent, but a few of them just make me cringe…

Harvey Kane has a great article in the latest A List Apart on creating an automatic magazine layout for photos with a simple PHP script.

 How to convert a color photo to a single-layered stencil in Photoshop. Once I find a suitable photo later today, I’ll give this a try.