Daily Drop Cap

iss those fancy intros to paragraphs from the print world? Go to daily drop cap to find awesome dropcaps...

http://dailydropcap.com

Chad Hagen

His series of nonsensical infographics is very interesting...



http://www.chadhagen.com

Write Your Own Book

Fast Pencil is an online tool that lets you write publish and print your on book in any quantity you'd like.

http://www.fastpencil.com/

Trekdesk

http://www.trekdesk.com/

desk for your treadmill...get work and exercise at the same time...

Exotic Stuffed Animals


http://www.thisplaceisazoo.com

http://www.dresserjohnson.com/design.html

Cool Jewelry



Made from eco-friendly plastic, these cool pieces look a bit like 3-dimensional tattoos...


http://www.brooklyn5and10.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BC3211

http://www.chompchomp.com/

for all your grammar needs...

National Punctuation Day

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

There I Fixed It

This site is full of hilarious half-assed attempts to fix things. Here's one of my favorites:



http://thereifixedit.com/2009/09/16/epic-kludge-photo-this-axle-is-perfectly-fine/

Street Food Festival

Tomorrow in SF, a celebration of street food with a gourmet twist.

http://www.sfstreetfoodfest.com/

from the website:
"The day-long block party will bring together micro-entrepreneurs, informal food vendors and renowned chefs to celebrate great street food, entrepreneurial spirit and the vibrant communities of San Francisco. In addition to delicious eats, the festival will feature a beer and spirits garden, roving street musicians, street art projects, and a hands-on children's play area, as well as multi-lingual services for attendees. The event is a benefit for La Cocina."

Artist Jill Lynn




http://www.jill-lin.com

French Artist Lyndie Dourthe




http://lyndiedourthe.monsite.wanadoo.fr/page5.html

OSCS Sailing



Wednesday Night Sails - $40 to go for a ride on a sail boat, and get fed? score.

Alameda, CA - Every Wednesday through October

An Awesomely appropriate use for Twitter...



Carte 415 is a lunch cart that is currently hanging out at 101 2nd Street in SF. Serving tasty food, and twittering you updates and specials so you don't have to hike all the way down there to find out. Follow them here: http://twitter.com/CARTE415

http://www.carte415.com/menu.php

Create a guest-requested playlist for you next party... http://www.flavortunes.com/

Plant ID

Every have a plant you lost the tag for and can't remember the name, or have a "weed" growing in your yard that you'd like to ID? or maybe even have a neighbors plant creeping into your yard? Find out what it is with MyPlantID.

http://myplantid.com

Helen Musselwhite is a paper artist based out of England. Her work look super intricate, and is layered for a 3D look.

http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Thanks to calamari for the link.

Cardboard Tube Dueling




http://www.tubeduel.com/sf/

Handmade Beards




imadeyouabeard.etsy.com

100 extraordinary examples of paper art from web designer depot

Awesome examples of artwork made of paper from artisits like Jen Stark, Peter Callesen, Simon Schubert, and others...




http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/100-extraordinary-examples-of-paper-art/

There I Fixed It

fantastic site of homemade fixes.



thereifixedit.com

Pimp That Snack



Why not? If you love you snacks, and want to learn to make gigantic versions of them, you must check this site out.

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com

Ugliest Tattoos

I think the title of the site is enough description to get you to check it out, but if not, maybe this photo will entice you




http://ugliesttattoos.com

Item Not As Described

Some of the funniest stuff that people are trying to sell...

http://itemnotasdescribed.com/

Hey Rude

Great site about rude people mostly on public transportation. Maybe check this site out and see if you are an offender...

http://www.heyrude.com/

Napa Bike Tour with Wine tasting

This looks like great fun! Wine, Bikes and Napa what more could you ask for?

http://www.getawayadventures.com/tours/one-day-tours/

Invites by Email



Love beautiful invitations, but hate using paper? Check out Paperless post.

http://www.paperlesspost.com/

Buy prints here

Thumbtack Press sells inexpensive prints from hip artists around the world. The site lets you browse by artist name, price range or randomly. I found this cool print there by Ken Wong.




http://www.thumbtackpress.com/

Tour de Fromage

Check out this awesome bike tour and cheese eating event, what could be a better combination? This Saturday May 30th in SF. Details at the link below. Check out the site for other cool biking events.

http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.sfbike.org/?chain

Vanishing Car Act

http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/05/21/art-students-vanishing-car-act/

iHouse



Here an awesome pre-fab house company with lots of floorplan options.

http://www.claytonihouse.com

Hand-held bug Zapper




Get rid of those mosquitoes, gnats and other flying bugs with a hand-held bug zapper. It's powered by batteries, I love this idea!

found at Tanga: http://tanga.com/deals/current

Fancy Coffee Art
http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/05/22/coffee-artwork/#more-19180

Sveinn Birkir's Project 1976



From the blog: Some posts on this blog are tagged with '1976' - the year I was born. The idea is that in time, these posts will pile up and establish an audio/visual anthology of sorts for the year 1976.

http://sveinnbirkir.tumblr.com/tagged/1976

Gigzee



See ALL the gigs going on near you. Gigzee promises to show you everything going on near you.

http://gigzee.com

Draw Food



Riki Takaoka is a freelance cartoonist, who loves to draw what's around him. Check out his cool drawing here:

http://drawfood.blogspot.com/

Bug Guide


I found this site when I was trying to find out how to keep the grasshoppers from eating all my plants. It pretty neat, you can look up any bug. There's even a Bug ID feature on the site that allows you to post a photo and have them tell you what the bug is.

http://bugguide.net/

Old Folks with Style



This blog documents older folks who have distinct style in their dress. Some are very funny...


http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/

Run Amuck

Photo from ronstar80 on flickr

Part of the Reno River Festival, the Run Amuck is a 2.5 mile 2-person relay race with a 60-foot mud pit and the most fun part is that you do it all in costume. To sign up for this years run, happening on May 8, 2009 go here:

http://renoriverfestival.com/runamuck/index.php

Meat Cards



Make your next set of business cards out of meat!

http://www.meatcards.com/

Thanks to TheJenny for the link!

Cheap Gas

find the cheapest gas on your daily commute or really any trip...

http://www.billshrink.com/gasadvisor/index.bx

Posters



This site has tons of beautiful typographic posters from designers around the world. Like this one from Begin, UK.


http://www.typographicposters.com/

Crazy Shit

http://peopleinolongertalkto.blogspot.com

You Can afford a Frickin Awesome Watch...

Much like bagborroworsteal.com where you can rent a fantastic purse by the week, here's an option for the guys: rent a fantastically expensive watch!


This Rolex is just an example of the huge selection of designer watches available to lease.

https://www.stealthetime.com/default.aspx

Rental Car Rally

from the site: RCR 2009 SF2Yuma is a single leg competitive road trip starting in San Francisco and ending in Yuma, AZ. There is no set route, but each team must hit pre-defined checkpoints, the locations of which will be provided in the rally booklet given to each team at the starting line. Each team must provide photographic evidence of each checkpoint. No photos = disqualification. Each team is scored by a combination of odometer reading, team style, and hijinks (details below).


http://rentalcarrally.com/

AWDIO

broadcasts live music 24/7 from around the world. Check it out - free to join.

http://www.awdio.com

Garden Journals

http://www.arbico-organics.com/gardenjournal1.html

http://www.gardening-quick-n-easy.com/Garden_Journal.html

Specialty Fragrances



Crazy scents like Dirt, Tomato, and Laundrymat are just a small example of the 200+ scents from Demeter Fragrances

http://www.demeterfragrance.com

Make a font out of your own handwriting!



http://www.yourfonts.com

XKCD - a comic strip



As the site says: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. There are some gems in here especially if you're bit of a geek.

http://xkcd.com

Awesome Vinyl wall graphics



Check out this cool guitar themed wall vinyl headboard from Vinylo Design.


http://www.vinylodesign.com

Recognize any of these people?



here's a blog dedicated to found cameras & memory cards.

http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Cool Jewelry on Etsy



This is from Alisa Miller - metalsmith

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5278612§ion_id=5275967

Cool Photo Blog



Great blog about awesome photographer like Chad Ress's image above.


http://www.featureshoot.com

An Airline where your pet isn't considered baggage...



Starts this summer.

http://www.petairways.com

Webcams

I love random webcams, this one has karaoke every night at 9:00 p.m.

Twofriendskeywest.com

Want someone neutral to assign your secret santas out?



http://www.elfster.com/

Native plant database




The Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center keeps a huge database of native plant info for all states.

http://www.wildflower.org/plants/

Awesome books from Tank Magazine


http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/index.html

Sweatshirt with built-in Beer bottle holder



find it here:
http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/product/84558.do?WT.srch=1&code=QJP&AID=10273822&PID=1493756

Lunch Bag Art




This guy draws art on his kids lunch bags, it's pretty cool.


http://lunchbagart.tumblr.com/

Beautiful long-exposure images

Awesome Jack 'o Lanterns



by Ray Villafane http://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm

Online photo editing - Phoenix by Aviary

Much cheaper than Photoshop and they claim it's just as funcional - but subscription-based, which means you'll have to pay every year. unless you can get by on the 50 projects allowed to you in the free version.

http://a.viary.com

http://www.brandtags.net/

Make shoes with your Photos!



keds and zazzle have partnered up to let you design your own shoes with your own photos! enjoy here:

http://www.zazzle.com/kedsstudio

Failed Bands



Shown above The Tribulations form New York

this is a great blog called For those who Tried to rock, we salute you... full of band making attempts that didn't quite make it...
http://triedtorock.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Ben G. For the link!

For garages with tight spaces:




http://www.carguygarage.com/spacesavingstor.html

Travel Planner Site

This site, NileGuide looks like it might be cool if they can get the data into that they need. I know it's still in Beta, but there is no way to plan a trip for a destination that isn't already in the site. and I couldn't find any way to add destinations or places to visit. If they could partner with a review site like Yelp this would be AWESOME!

http://www.nileguide.com/

http://www.liqurious.com/

Didn't get into your High School Yearbook? make up for it here and try out any decade you like...

http://www.yearbookyourself.com/

http://www.postcrossing.com/

Check out the french moustache site

http://themoustache.uber.com/Home