Print & Fold iPhone/iTouch dock.

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All dishes must be wrapped! Extra points for multiple wraps.

To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935.

Except for the dayglow-ski-jacket-inspired burst of neon magentas at the end of the ’80s, the official color set has remained remarkably faithful to its roots!

Ever industrious, Velo also calculated the average growth rate: 2.56% annually.  For maximum understandability, he reformulated it as “Crayola’s Law,” which states:

The number of colors doubles every 28 years!

If the Law holds true, Crayola’s gonna need a bigger box, because by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons!  Shortly thereafter, frazzled packaging designers rejoice, for to the rescue comes a revolution in household appliances: the new-fangled Replicator-Dissociator!  Load it with the Crayola plugin, and you’re seconds away from every shade in the rainbow – no boxes required!

hat tip.

I have used it for two nights now and the first night it was not picking up much but the second night it produced a classic sleep histogram. Unfortunately I left my normal alarm on and so didn’t get to test the built-in alarm. Price is .99 cents.

When Apple added multi-touch features to the (PowerBook and) MacBook trackpads several years ago it was a significant and intuitive breakthrough in human-computer interaction.  The iPhone followed shortly after, improving multi-touch and introducing gestures.  These improvements are now standard technology on all Apple laptops, but those of us still rocking early models are missing out on all the features.  Unless you get a Magic Mouse.

Elph was kind enough to pick up a Magic Mouse for me a couple weeks back.  It’s the sexiest peripheral I’ve ever owned. It’s ergonomic: if you lay your open palm on a desk, the Magic Mouse nestles in the space between your hand and the surface of the desk.  It’s has an optical sensor like a traditional mouse, so you move it around in the same fashion, but your fingers are given much more control.

Swipe a finger up/down to scroll – or two fingers, if you can’t break the trackpad habit like me.  When browsing in Firefox or Safari, swipe fingers right/left to go forward/back in your browsing history.  To call up the secondary menu you can touch two fingers and click, or designate a hot corner on the mouse.  Improved hot corners let you call on some of OS X’s features by just tapping a single finger on a corner (Dashboard, Expose, show desktop, secondary click).  You can even use the pinch & expand gestures to zoom in & out.  All of this control comes in a sleek and smart design; a giant button with a big multi-touch surface.

The Magic Mouse is Bluetooth and I’ve had no problems pairing with my laptop.  I haven’t owned the Mouse long enough to judge the battery life.  It comes in the clever, minimal packaging of most Apple gadgets, so is scarce on documentation.  After you pair your Magic Mouse with your computer be sure to run Software Update to get the driver & preference pane for setting gestures and behavior.

After I adapted to the two-finger scrolling of my MacBook I had a hard time using other laptops: sliding two fingers down the trackpad with no result, frustrated when I had to cursor to a scroll bar and click.  I worry I’ll soon find myself feeling the same when I interact with mice not my own, longing for the elegant innovation of my Magic Mouse.

Head Chef JoeG brought toppings, Whole Foods pizza dough, homemade sauce, salad and vino. Elph brought his own cauliflower crust. We made 8(?) pizzas including a calzone and a dessert pizza with cinnamon sugar and chocolate bits.