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Turning old board games into wall hangings is a lot of fun. I did it with Monopoly (well, the campus themed Auburnopoly) and it turned out great. The hard part was getting the stack of Chance and Community Chest cards to stick in a pile.

One advantage the tablet version of board games has is unlimited pieces. For some games this isn't allowed since the set number of pieces is part of the design but for others where it was merely a manufacturing issue, you can get more out of the tablet version.

The SteriPen worked great for me on a recent trip to Tanzania. While bottled water was available at our hotel, once we started climbing Kilimanjaro, all of our water came from nearby streams. My fellow hikers all complained of water tasting like a swimming pool since they had to treat it with chlorine. But the SteriPen did its job and I have had fresh mountain water to drink which is really important when going to high altitudes. The only downside is that it does take a couple of minutes to treat each liter of water which can be inconvenient when everyone else is waiting to break camp.

Pretty sure I'm not going to use it at home though unless perhaps there is a boil water advisory.

We use to do this as kids though our designs were a bit more ragged and a lot more boxy. My favorite included a little door for the built in waste basket.

Alarm clocks kill dreams!

Wow, the Nook does offer much more than an iPad.

There have been several similar services in the past and Craigslist has blocked them all. I'm not sure why they are so insistent on each link being clicked individually except perhaps they feel that it'll make people choosy about which links they click and save the company's bandwidth.

Staplers, maybe... if I often stapled two different types of paper groups. Perhaps I generate forty TPS reports each day at 2pm that are thirty sheets each. I'd need a really heavy duty electric stapler for that. But then I also print up the late afternoon tea menu that is printed on delicate paper and on a second sheet is the list of watercress, cucumber and other crustless sandwiches. I'd want a different stapler for that. Not everyone needs the same items in their their toolbox.

Dual dishwashers aren't likely to be needed for the volume of most households (the Duggards would probably need at least three) but in a country of over three hundred million people, I can see the dual setup fitting the lifestyle of some social butterflies and culinary craftspeople.

If you really want crazy, talk to the woman that needs a second washing machine due to her huge quanity of napkins!

When I bought my home eight years ago, I took it as an opportunity to ditch the land line. I actually don't know if the telephone wiring in my house even works!

Nice placement of the Chinese flag app logo. Seems appropriate.

"Well with a 95% acceptance rate within 7 days, we don’t really see any problem with Apple being rejection-happy. "

If you were in the other 5%, you might feel differently.

"Now, everyone is on an even playing field and has the possibility to get mass exposure."

Kind of like that place called the web, where anyone can put up a site and anyone can get to it? (Well, unless you live somewhere like China) No Apple approval required!

The mass exposure part will go away just as soon as more apps are added. Look at the app store for the iphone. It's very easy to get your app lost in there. I'm sure there are plenty of companies, developers and designers who would rather they had a choice to put their iphone apps out on their own web site, with their own marketing instead of being at the mercy of Apple.

One nice thing about the Mac App Store over the iphone app store... you don't have to use it. Macs can still install apps from places other than the App Store... at least for now.

The Mac App Store is a nice convenience. There are certainly benefits to it but let's not be glib about the potential downsides, especially when dealing with a company that has a long history of being obsessed with control.

ESPN3 on the Xbox has a huge problem with the advertisements. At first it was like espn3.com where commercial breaks are replaced with a message that the program would be back in a moment. But during the college bowl season, they started putting in their own commercials.

The problem was that they kept playing the same commercials over and over again. For many bowls there were only two commercials, one by AT&T and the second by All State, repeated endlessly. It was grating on the nerves to hear the same commercial over and over each break, sometimes played three times in a row. Anyone who has had a child get obsessed with a song knows that even the most innocent sounding audio quickly will drive you mad when played over and over again.

The really odd thing happened during the BCS Championship game between Oregon and Auburn. ESPN3 kept playing the same internal commercial featuring everyone mindlessly cheering "Roll Tide!" over and over again. Since it was an ESPN commercial, it wasn't even that anyone paid to have it inserted. Anyone whos anything about college football knows that Auburn fans don't want to hear "Roll Tide!" several thousand times while watching their game. Out of all of the ESPN commercials, why pick that one?

Whoever is in charge of inserting commercials into Xbox Live's ESPN3 feed needs to go. If they can't leave that space empty and can't play the normal network commercials, they need to get some good variety in the advertisements or risk alienating viewers before the service even gets a chance to get off the ground.