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I am giving Shelfari and test ride this week to see if it does anything useful. So far, neat widget in the sidebar of the blog. There is a surprising number of people already on board, you can check their libraries as you browse around.
The interface is decent and responsive, might as well take a spin. You can sign up yourself rightHere.
Personally, I am just adding books as I read them rather then back filling them all. So, go ahead and read along with me.

Nothing says Halloween like themed icons for your computer, well except perhaps a spooky Shark Costume.

Feel free to download the free icons here, from the good people at Iconfactory.

Not sure how to use them? Check out this article.

Animoto is about the easiest way to make a 30 second video I think I have ever seen. Sign in, choose a source (you can pull from sources like flickr, picasa, etc), pick some music (they have a library or you can use your own), and submit. Give it time to render and viola, instant online video. Very slick. I appreciate the transitions, I can see this being big on myspace and the like. Would be nice there was an option to not use Skate Board Movie Transitions.

Also, best tagline ever:
“Why Sign Up?
Because Steven Seagal Did!”

Sidenote:You can buy points to produce longer, full length video.
Read more about it at their site

Now that I am on the Hill and have some more interesting landmarks to remark on, I referred back to wikimapia. As I have covered before on the CHILL site, wikimapia is a user based collaborative geographic doodad.

Near to me you find such wonders a street marked “DO NOT PARK HERE!”

Nice.

So now you can embed simple widgets right into your website. Check out google’s gadget site.

“Yes, a little too fair.”

I like this guy.

Also I am trying out veoh as a video site.

VIA TUAW

What Makes Us Tick - Google Video

I went and saw the new Superman, I really liked it.

But you know what? I would take the old old stuff any day.

Case in point:

The Artic Giant (1942)

From Superman comics

“An expedition unearths a frozen Tyrannosaurus in the Siberian tundra and brings it back to the USA. Naturally, it accidentally thaws and runs amok. Can Superman handle it?”

Stream or download here:

I can appreciate a really good and usefull application on a computer, something that helps organize your day and make you more productive.

Those are great.

But know what like even more than that?!

Pointless apps…or rather things that do tasks that don’t exactly register as being 100% needed.

For example, Seismac

This thing uses the motion sensor in the new Powerbooks, Macbooks, and Macbook Pros to register minute preturbances in the crust of the Earth. Hell yeah!

The good people (well person, its just Daniel Griscom over there) at Suitable Systems thought up this free and awesome utility, thank you Suitable Systems.

This came via TUAW via Infinite Loop

Here is something cool, a slick Word Per Minute test.

Personally, I scored 61…but then again I am just a simple caveman and don’t understand your magic little boxes.

Go ahead, take it for a spin. Or just back away and declare me your typing King!