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Random Internet Awesomeness

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Check these hilarious reviews of the Bic Crystal ballpoint pen on Amazon. I suspect this kind of thing abounds on Amazon if you’re willing to look for it. All the reviews are great, but this one is my favorite.

Moneygami — if you’ve seen bills folded to look like shirts; these blow those out of the water.

The creative cats at Barkley have opened the Bad Gift Emporium — a place to show off the thoughtful-yet-awful gifts that should have never been given. Best of all, you can post your own examples of Christmas crap and work out trades so you can get your hands on someone else’s crap (if that’s your thing).

Email Standards Project

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Email Standards Project launched today. It’s all about bringing web standards support to e-mail clients by educating web designers and developers and a starting a dialogue with email client developers.

The current state of web standards support in email can best be described as dismal. It’s a throwback to the early days of the web with each client (both desktop and online) offering wildly varied levels of support for basic HTML and CSS. You can see the results of ESP’s client tests here.

It’s a grassroots movement spearheaded by the fine folks at Freshview, makers of Campaign Monitor, some of the easiest to use email newsletter software around.

Find out what you can do to help and follow the latest developments on the ESP blog.

Give one, get one

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The more I read about the Give one, get one program, the more I like it. Recently discovered tidbits: $200 tax break and free T-Mobile hotspots for 1 year (for any of your Wi-Fi friendly devices). Plus there’s the whole helping people in developing nations aspect. The deal’s only available until November 26th… sooo tempting.