Brainrub

I am not fond of being “online” when I’m on vacation. This is, perhaps, because I prefer to take vacations where technology doesn’t work. It is also one of few times where I will engage in social behavior and actually speak to others in full sentences—with eye contact, even. But this only works if your travel mates are on the same page. Otherwise you find yourself talking to yourself in a potentially psychotic sort of way.

TasteSpotting: Browse through delicious photographs of food, then click on the image to get the recipe so you can actually savor the goodness.

Bent Objects: This guy takes a little bit of wire, some random household objects and bends them into creativity.

Wall House: A living structure that combines a cave, a tent and a house—oh and it’s “green,” too.

ùtilware: a blog, structured like a book, filled with useful nuggets of information and commentary—and it doesn’t look like a WordPress template.

Polling Place Photo Project: Join this experiment in citizen journalism with the New York Times and photograph your experience in this year’s political process.

BookMooch: List your used books, search for used books, mail your old books, receive old books—it’s a book exchange through the mail, and it’s free.

Adam and I have been very busy getting through holidays, new years, and the like. We were not, as one might have hoped, hiding away in dark rooms listening to ambient music and playing the Wii. In fact, neither one of us scored a Wii in 2007, and that’s because people think you need useful gifts when you’re over the age of 35. For the record, and to be totally honest, Adam and I would both prefer a Wii. Until then, we’re back until another moment of hiatus returns.