“As Warhol predicted with ‘15 minutes of fame,’ hundreds of millions of individuals are craving immortality, or at least some public attention. Whether it’s blogging, participating in Big Brother, having a character in a novel named after you, or adorning your car with personalized license plates, the masses want their names out there. This is where graffiti meets vanity to form GRAVANITY: an entire industry catering to the obsession of ordinary citizens wanting to leave ’something’ behind in print, audio or imagery, preferably in the public domain.”

“Bringing you the best of bygone eras. I’ve been an admirer of all things with a retro feeling for a few years. Nowadays it’s something that’s being revived in many areas such as design, music, fashion and so on.”

“Reprodepot Fabrics was started out of a love for vintage fabrics. We hope to provide the best selection of 20th-Century reproduction fabrics on the internet.”

“The STACK figures are the basis of competition flying, but some of them are hard to make out from the static diagrams. In order to make them clearer, I have produced a set of animations of all of the figures. The animations now allow you turn both the grid and figure lines on and off. This can give flyers an idea of how the figures look when seen against a clear sky.”

“Ticket stubs are everywhere, one of the many receipts in our daily lives — but we all save some from time to time. The Ticketstub project is a place where you can upload scanned images of your saved stubs, and tell a story about that night, that concert, that movie, what happened on that date; basically, ask youself why you saved the stub as a reminder.”

“List stuff on Trodo. When a person asks for something, you ship it. When they get it, they give you feedback and you earn a credit. Use credits to get stuff from any other Trodo member, for free.”

“We are the only source in America that provides in-depth, objective analysis of the financial health of more than 1,700 of America’s largest charities, for free.”

“We’ve flown over most of the California coastline before and have seen the beauty of the natural coastline and destruction that man has wrought unto it… and from time-to-time over the years we have volunteered our time and resources to help protect the coast. We’ve been called to photograph ‘after’ pictures of illegal activity that has destroyed the coast, but rarely do we have the ‘before’ pictures. More than once we wished we’d used the opportunity to photograph a ‘before’ picture. This started us thinking — what if we photographed the entire coast as a baseline of ‘before’ pictures?”

“postcardX is about exposing a part of yourself to a random person somewhere out there in the ether. you can send a postcard with your latest poem or life instance. send a dried flower you found on a walk the evening before. send a box full of trinkets found from your childhood. send that book you just finished. send a mix CD or tape of your music. send that painting that took you 40 hours to a stranger along with a packet of your favorite tea. send a secret.”

“Paperstuff.com is dedicated to bringing you vintage fruit box art at a reasonable price. We stand behind our labels, and make sure the customer is always satisfied. To the benefit of the customer, we offer an easy-to-use shopping cart with top of the line, secure online ordering.”

“A guide to locating events for each day of the year.” Good reference, includes Today’s Date and Time, Astronomical Events, Historical Events and Birthdays, Holidays and Festivals, The Religious Year, Timelines, The History of the Calendar and Clocks and Create a Calendar.

“It prevents burnouts and ameliorates loathings and lightens the spirit and lets the psyche breathe and I am now utterly convinced that we are all idiots. Or rather, the Europeans, with their regular, multi-month vacations, are geniuses. And the Australians are super-geniuses. Three months per year, paid. They pity us. They sip their Victoria Bitter and grin and make their enviable plans to travel across Asia on a Vespa for the summer and they look at us and shake their heads and say, ‘Jesus, with a brutal mortgage payment and a weekly performance evaluation, we are just *so sorry* you’re an American…’”

Be careful of the slow, stupid nav applet. “SandlotScience, the Internet’s premier source of complelling optical illusions, and interactive exhibits.”

“Whether you are tying a bow tie or tying a shoe, the steps are the same. Here are some helpful hints if you are learning to tie a bow tie.”

“The Internet allows us to link millions of people worldwide and solve computationally intensive problems by using thousands of computers (e.g., distributed.net or SETI@home). Could one develop an analogous method of using the creative thinkcycles of people everywhere to work on global design challenges? ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open-source design innovation, with ongoing collaboration among individuals, communities and organizations around the world.”