Calendar simplicity = Calendar beauty

French design company has a simple way to track days of the month: Monthly Measure.  Something about the simplicity makes this appealing:

A wooden rule with 31 'day' notches and a metal cog with the days of the week (one side English, one side French). 

Glass Steam Engine

Great video of an all-glass steam engine.  No seals were used- just well fitting glass.

Cool gadget

Better than nerd cufflinks, a kinetic ring:

File Under: things to buy

An SD HC card that has an integrated USB connector.  Useful for those times when you don't have a USB cable for your camera.

SanDisk has a similar product: Sandisk Ducati