Check out the great sketching from Kaffe 1668 coffee house in Greenwich Village, NYC

http://kaffe1668.com/index.html

Crime Map

Are you curious about the neighborhood you're moving into? or even just about the neighborhood you live in? check our Truilias crime heat map. It's in Beta, so it's only avail for some areas, but soon it will be avail in more locations. It is pretty slick though.

http://www.trulia.com/crime/#!san-francisco-ca/13/37.77096,-122.42529/San_Francisco,CA/

Funny Rings

These rings from the Smiling Silver Smith's Etsy shop make me laugh!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SmilingSilverSmith?ref=top_trail

UI Stencils

User Interface stencils? Yes. this are handy tools for sketching out all of your UI needs, browsers, iPhones, iPad or Android, oh and yes, even windows.

Get them here:
http://www.uistencils.com/products/browser-sketch-pad

Urbio Magnetic Garden Pots

These guys are asking for funding from micro-lending site kickstarter to create and sell their modern planters that make keeping plants in small spaces easier.



Donate to their start-up here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1627079510/urbio-vertical-garden

Modernist Chicken Coop

If I ever raise chickens (which I hope some day to do), I'd like to raise them in these...

http://www.nogg.co/

Two Leaves and A Bud Tea Sampler

http://www.twoleavesandabud.com/p_Canister-Sachet-Sampler-117.html

iPhone app for the color blind...

Dan Kamisky has fixed color for the color blind with this app he built for the iphone...I love the story on how he came up with the idea (from his site):

'So, we’re in Taiwan, building something…amusing…when we go out to see the Star Trek movie. Afterwords, one of the engineers mentions he’s color blind. I say to him, these fateful words:

“What did you think about the green girl?”

He responds, with shock: “There was a green girl??? I thought she was just tan!“'

http://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/15/dankam/

SpoonFlower Fabrics

There are some super-cute fabrics to be found on this site, but the best part of Spoonflower, is that you can order them on pretty much any kind of fabric you want!



http://www.spoonflower.com/

Cool Basket for Your Bike

http://mioculture.com/accessories/pop-up-bike-basket.html

Action Method

I'm always on the lookout for good project management tools, and I have just discovered a new one. Action Method, it would be most closely compared to BaseCamp, but seems to have a better User Interface (UI) and looks like it works well for keeping a personal to-do list as well.

It's free version allows you to create projects and delegate tasks to others, but limits you to 50 tasks total with unlimited projects (plenty for your day-to-day projects on a personal level) but if you plan to use it for an actual event planning tool or project management tool for your small company, you might want to fork out the $99 for a years worth of access. With this upgraded plan, you get file storage, and a whole slew of other features to make your life easier, like collaboration space, and online discussions.

It also has a free iphone app that ties in beutifully, and some paper accesories that you can order for your team to ensure that eeverything stays beautifully tracked even when you're jotting notes down at meetings.

http://www.actionmethod.com/Tour

A blog that record the daily routines of interesting people. You can sort by type of jobs such as artists, stesmen, or writers; or habits such as procratinators, drinkers, early risers.

http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/procrastinators/

Ego Book

ever wish you had a physical book out of your facebook page? well, here it is...

get your own here...facebook account obviously required...

http://apps.facebook.com/my-egobook/

Recipe Look

Cool site where folks send in graphic instructions for cooking.

Jackets out of upholstery

http://www.thrillist.com/video/179801

A Life on Facebook

DamnYouAutoCorrect.com

These are hilarious.
DamnYouAutoCorrect.com

Find out if you're overpaying for rent

see how your rent comperes to others in your neighborhood

http://www.rentometer.com

Awful Library books

Check out this site fr some terrible books found in local libraries around the country.
http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

Using a Bridge to make Housing

What awesome ideas...I wouldn't say it's a smart thing to build housing on a bridge that is slated to be torn down for not being safe in seismic activity, but still, awesome conceptual ideas, and maybe better used in less shaky ground than the California Bay Area.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/bay-line.html