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Check username availability at multiple social networking sites. - Jacob

Sartorial and epicurean aesthetics come together to tease you with creative essays presented in great big photos. - Jacob

"brainwear for smart people" A helmet that's also a hat. - Jacob

Use Google Earth's real-time tracking or any other GPS capable app on your laptop with your [Nokia] phone's GPS via Bluetooth. On OS X simply add a new serial port in Bluetooth preferences when your phone is paired and ExtGPS is running on it. - Jacob

Private vacation rentals, rooms, sublets by the night, worldwide. - Jacob

"create, print and mail personalized photo postcards directly from your iPhone" [or web browser]. Currently US-only. - Jacob

A semi-submersible 'powerboat' that looks and behaves like a dolphin. $48,000. - Jacob

Rooms and tents in the Binsar Sanctuary at 7,500 feet with view onto the Himalayan peaks. No grid electricity but has solar lighting. From $95. - Jacob

Cottages and tents at 7,000 feet *without* a view onto the Himalayan peaks. No electricity. From $15. - Jacob

"The historic hamlet of Abbott Mount is at 6500 ft in the eastern Kumaon Hills. It was founded by an English businessman who wanted to start a hill station at the turn of the 20th century. Unlike many Indian hill stations Abbott Mount has changed little since its inception." From $50/night. - Jacob

"Accessible Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas" (Generated from an HTML table.) - Jacob

"a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac can be sent to your iPhone over push" - Jacob

"a museum that celebrates the relationship between sculpture and nature. Five hundred acres of landscaped lawns, fields and woodlands provide the site for postwar sculptures by internationally renowned artists. At Storm King, the exhibition space is defined by sky and land." - Jacob

"a museum that celebrates the relationship between sculpture and nature. Five hundred acres of landscaped lawns, fields and woodlands provide the site for postwar sculptures by internationally renowned artists. At Storm King, the exhibition space is defined by sky and land." - Jacob

A very simply chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, in other browsers that do not support <video>, it falls back to Adobe Flash. - Jacob

a Cocoa wrapper to Lua - Jacob

Distributed and persistent key-value database built on Tokyo Tyrant. Use for persistent key-value storage. Potentially complimentary to both memcached (non-persistent key-value storage) and MySQL (persistent relational data). - Jacob

A Lua interpreter for the Symbian operating system that integrates Lua coroutines with Symbian active objects and the active scheduler. - Jacob

A Lua and toLua Port for Symbian S60 OS (2nd edition). - Jacob

"a forward thinking fashion label where the designer and the consumer are one in the same. users submit designs to the site for review by other community members with the highest rated garments of each voting period actually available for purchase in the online boutique." - Jacob

"generates sparklines (small inline charts) directly in the browser using data supplied either inline in the HTML, or via javascript" - Jacob

A maintenance-free compressed-air powered water pump with no moving parts. - Jacob

Online marketplace for designers and craftsmen akin to Etsy. - Jacob

Discover Sustainable Materials - Jacob

"Just nine amazing rooms." A shabby-chic listed building in WC1 decorated with rare objects and new art. - Jacob

"Create great meals with our Michelin Star Chef—no washing up in sight!" (Parsons Green) - Jacob

A 'remarkably authentic' fourteenth-century castle complete with moat owned by an English family in Poitou Charentes. - Jacob

"A summary of projects by MA students in the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art exploring future possibilities for e-money." There's some great visions here, particularly "National Fiscal Health Service", and "Consumption Currency." - Jacob

Social recommendations are almost passé now, but this site (and its sister sites for NYC and Toronto) reinvigorates by letting you browse a sample of suggestions for things to do based on your mood (e.g. naughty, chilled, or [new!] broke). Some cool ideas on the map. - Jacob

A simple little lifestream aggregator that lets you group your activity into event-based "stories". - Jacob