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Here's What's Awesome: Musical Pilgrimages, Frustration-Free Packages
By Brady Carlson on Friday, November 21, 2008.
Despite the downturn in other areas of the market, awesome link futures remain high, as investors try to shed themselves of declining non-awesome links. Meanwhile, rubber hardened and string remained confident. Here are today's top gainers on the Here's What's Awesome link index:
No one I think is in my tree (click for driving directions to the tree)
They say there's a story behind the writing of every song, but often there's a place behind the song as well. Music Pilgrimages takes some of these places and puts them on a Google Map, along with photos and tales. So far the site features only places in the UK, but there are plenty - along with song-specific places like Strawberry Fields in Liverpool, the site also features places where music history took place, from the birthplace of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett to where Keith Richards spent a night in jail. [Google Maps Mania]
Or you can trade it all for what's inside those 74 boxes
Amazon.com is testing out Frustration Free Packaging - meaning a single product is delivered in a single, eco-friendly box instead of a large shipping box holding a plastic container that can't be opened without power tools and loud cussing. Amazon is also asking customers to upload videos of their horrible packaging experiences, which I suppose you watch on computers or TV screens that you ordered frustration-free. [Inhabitat]
They have the Internet on computers now?
For computer-savvy people, the only thing more frustrating than opening unnecessarily complex packages is answering tech questions from people like me, who call or drop by with a constant barrage of questions we could easily look up the information ourselves. Now you can fight back with Let Me Google That For You, which sets up a fun and very passive-aggressive link to send to your computer-illiterate shadow. Here's a demonstration. [Los Angeles Times Technology]
Now it's your turn - share an awesome link of your own in the comments field. We will, however, turn away any awesome links that come wrapped in 20 twist-ties inside their plastic containers.
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Amazon is definitely doing a great thing here, by making it easier and less costly to ship their items to us, as well as helping the environment. But we all can do our part here. Check out UsedCardboardBoxes.com, for instance. People who need boxes for a move or for shipping Ebay stuff or whatever can go here, buy boxes that might otherwise wind up in a landfill and save money at the same time. Talk about win-win!