3-D NYC buildings from Google Earth printed out on a 3D printer
The 3D buildings OGLE'd from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) copying all of the roof polygons to floor polygons, we got the job done:

Compact Revolving Kitchen

As an apartment dweller, I'd been hard-pressed to imagine a kitchen in existence smaller than my own, but CCD Concepts LTD suffer from no such lack of imagination: their Circular Kitchen's compact design somehow manages to cram the basic kitchen storage and appliances into a space of 1.8sqm. Using a lazy-susan-like design, the circular kitchen includes the storage capacity of 12 cupboards, and can be outfitted with a variety of built-in or stand-alone appliances, depending on your choice of model.

Circular Kitchen models vary by your kitchen needs; be it for your apartment, office, or motel. The only question being which would be more appropriate for fulling the food-prep needs of someone whose bedroom doubles are their home office. (Other than the local takeaway). -[Star C. Foster]

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Learn Foreign Languages on Your iPod With iLingo
To be American means that it’s your inalienable right to visit a foreign country and get upset at the locals for not knowing English. If, for some reason, you wish to learn their strange tongue, bring along your iPod and load up iLingo. It’s software (well, in as much as a bunch of sound files with a menu structure makes something software) designed to make learning that new language you’ve always wanted to learn but never had the time, um, fun. Yeah. There’s two packs, a Euro 2.0 pack, which includes French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, and an Asia 2.0 pack, which includes Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. The audio files were all recorded by native speakers, so there’s no worry of sounding like a dork when trying to pronounce words. Available now, iLingo, which only works with iPods with a dock connector, costs $49.95 for the Euro version and $39.95 for the Asia version. Now go forth and make Uncle Sam proud. Product Page [Talking Panda via Chip Chick]

A farewell to Flutie
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Adam Schefter's "Around the League" reports and commentaries can be seen regularly on NFL Total Access. (May 15, 2006) -- It feels as if Doug Flutie has been around as long as the drop kick, which is only fitting. ...

Skype offers free PC-to-landline calls

Skype has begun offering free phone calls from a PC to any landline phone in North America. The company hopes that a free "SkypeOut" will increase the market penetration of Skype in the U.S. and Canada and will be available until the end of this year.

A Better Way to Podcast

MyPodder simplifies subscribing to podcasts and downloading them to your portable music player -- and highlights a little-noticed problem of media control that promises to get more acute with time. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.