Digenis.org

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?

Not sure where this humorous comic on the Leopard delay originated, but it’s been floating around the net:

See also John Gruber’s comments.

Dylan Hears a Who is a free record that brings together the best of two worlds: Bob Dylan and Dr. Seuss. Songs include: Oh, The Thinks You Can Think, Green Eggs and Ham, Miss Gertrude McFuzz, McElligot’s Pool, Too Many Daves, The Zax, and The Cat in The Hat.

McSweeny’s Short Imagined Monologues: Professor Richard Dawkins speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten regarding Santa Claus, December 2, 2006. (via Kottke)

Here are a few Dilbert comics strips published in Russian by Bolshoi Gorod

From Kyle Spector at the Foreign Policy blog:

Instilling national pride is important for any country. It can be done through patriotic songs, the erection of monuments, or even fostering a great environment for foreign investment to boost the economy. But don’t tell Russia that. It has chosen a different path - fining officials for using the word “dollar” in any instance when they could have used “ruble” instead.

Earlier this month, the Duma approved (almost unanimously) a bill requiring Russian ministers to use the word rubles instead of foreign currency terms. Last Friday, Russia’s defense minister called the dollar “that thing you are not allowed to say” while discussing sales of military equipment to Venezuela. Today, the economy minister almost used the word dollar, corrected himself by announcing a statistic as “700 million rubles,” and then added “30 million not rubles” instead of 30 million dollars. The law also outlaws the use of “euro.” Some finance bureaucrats are certainly going to have their work cut out for them, given that customs duties in Russia are listed in euros, and the country’s foreign debt is counted in foreign currency.

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…

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