http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff All the good stuff that we find and want to save for later. Fri, 06 May 2005 03:02:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A map of the US, with the states colored in according to average credit score. Congratulations, South Dakota, for having the best credit scores! http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Common/Flash/P114904.asp?special=IA http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/average-us-credit-scores-map/ A ranking of cities based on the “visual impact of their skylines”. http://www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/sr/ http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/skyline-ranking/ A container for holding frosted cupcakes in a way that keeps the frosting intact. http://www.cupacake.com/ http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/cup-a-cake/ A product that keeps your banana from getting bruised in your bag. http://www.bananaguard.com/ http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/banana-guard/ Dyeing clothespins in a washing machine. http://stranko.com/clothespin.html http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/the-fancy-clothespin/ A demonstration of why graphic artists ought to take CSS seriously. They also invite people to contribute designs that modify the stylesheet while keeping the HTML intact. http://www.csszengarden.com/ http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/css-zen-garden/ Tumbleweed’s owner, Jay Shafer, lives in a 100-square foot house. His company Tumbleweed builds meticulous, made-to-order little houses. http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/tumbleweed-tiny-house-company/ The Physics Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fills someone’s office with lots of colorful balloons. http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/groups/physics_society/2000-2001/pictures/balloons.html http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/05/an-office-full-of-balloons/ From the Spaghetti Ice Cream website: There is no spaghetti in Spaghetti Ice Cream, just vanilla ice cream (the spaghetti), blended strawberries (the sauce) and grated white chocolate and grated almonds. (the cheese). Here’s a great picture of the stuff: http://spaghettiicecream.com/Spaghetti-Ice-cream.html http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/04/spaghetti-ice-cream/ An Implicit Association Test (IAT) is “a tool to gain greater awareness about [your] own unconscious preferences and beliefs”. Take various forms of IATs here. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ http://blogs.orangelabs.org/goodstuff/2005/04/18/