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1. Mental Floss: Erin Baillie-Rutter inspirational image blog will have your head reeling with an inundation of scrumptious imagery.

2. All Folked Up: The Punk Rock Collection, Vol. 1: If there’s anything better than a punk-rock song, it’s a folk interpretation of a punk rock song. Boyhowdy compiles a brilliant collection of folk covers of seminal first and second wave punk music staples.

3. TIME’s The 50 Best Inventions of 2009: A mixture of the amazing, whacky and weird, this compilation of creations will have you marveling at the human capacity to create out of the ether of awesome.

4. Eight Great Italian Markets in New York City: Being a typical first generation Italian-American, I am on the constant hunt for good sopressata and prosciutto. Gourmet.com narrows down eight fantastic options to get your Italian specialty fix in and around the Big Apple.

5. Dave Eggers Reassures Us That Print Lives: For bibliophiles like myself, Dave Eggers has kind of earned god-like respect for spearheading a decade’s long movement to preserve the art of beautiful books. I often find myself returning to read this inspiring open-letter, written to those who may be concerned the printed word is dying off.

6. Tune Up: I find very few things as mind-bogglingly frustrating as downloading album art from iTunes for 30 minutes, only to discover that 75% of my music is still missing art. Tune Up is an application created by music lovers, for music lovers to clean up their digital music collection with the precision of the most discriminating music snob. FINALLY!

7. Tune Up Media: I find very few things as mind-bogglingly frustrating as downloading album art from iTunes for 30 minutes, only to discover that 75% of my music is still missing art, or finding a wealth of mp3′s proper missing album info. Tune Up is an application created by music lovers, for music lovers to clean up their digital music collection with the precision of the most discriminating music snob. FINALLY!

And finally, for this collaborative music video, “Hibi no Neiro (Tone of Everyday),” by the Japanese band Sour was created with a selection of their fans from around the world filming themselves on webcams. The results are overwhelmingly awesome…

Make it a great one, folks!

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