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Building Calendar May Be Sexist but I Like It Anyway

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:40:00 +0000

This outdoor advertising for Axe deodorant—integrated with the architecture of a female students’ dorm—shows a page of a calendar, with each window showing a sexy girl making a day cell.

According to the Korean agency that created it, “we aimed for the expression that a new female can be met on a daily basis.” Yes, Korean Agency, a new female who will conveniently ignore you—specially if you use Axe deodorant—can be met on a daily basis. [Direct Daily—Thanks Genevieve]

Calendar Tape Marks Your Organisational Crime Scenes

John Mahoney — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0000

I kind of like the idea of adding a monthly calendar to just about anything with this Calendar Roll tape. $US10 gets you one roll each for weekdays and full months. [ThinkGeek via BBG]

Make Your iPhone’s Wallpaper Useful With Google Calender and Notes

Matt Buchanan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:20:00 +0000

Unless you jailbreak your iPhone to install Intelliscreen, your iPhone’s wallpaper is static and pretty, at best. But two apps, Wallpaper Labeler and gCalWall Lite, let you add appointments and notes to the home screen.

With Wallpaper Labeler, you can enter any text you want to your wallpaper, so you can leave yourself (or whoever finds your phone) notes. The other app, gCalWall is more of what I’m looking for: It pulls down upcoming appointments from your default Google Calendar and splays them all over your home screen. You have to update it manually, which is kind of a drag, but the dev says that iPhone API won’t allow for automatic updating =((((. Still, pretty handy. [iTunes, iTunes via Lifehacker]

20 Year Calendar Causes Me Intense Anxiety

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:15:00 +0000

I can barely plan next week, so this 20 year calendar gives me the creeps. That’s 7,300 pages, a whooping 2 feet (60 centimeters) of paper coming off the wall.

It was created by the Saatchi & Saatchi ad agency in Germany to promote the Schott solar panels, which apparently are so durable that they can last for 20 years. That’s exactly the warranty of these things. It seems that the calendar is so popular that their sales force is being inundated with petitions from clients who want to have their own.

I just don’t get it. Being reminded that at the end of that stack of paper I would be 56 years old is just not my idea of fun. [Foolish Gadgets via OhGizmo]

Warbot Pinup Calendar: 12 Months of Gun-Wielding Robot Porn

Sean Fallon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0000

I have often wondered how the paper calendar continues to be marketable in an era of mobile phones and widgets. Then again, most calendars are not nearly as hilarious as the Warbot 2009 edition.

Whether military contractor Qinetiq actually intended this company swag to be hilarious is open to debate—but how could it be a mistake? Gun-wielding robots in Santa hats, sexy shots of robots and mustachioed dudes, George W. Bush—this is a work of genius. [Danger Room via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Ogle Cable Guys Between the Hours of Whenever and Anytime

Jason Chen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:30:00 +0000

Can’t get enough of your local cable guy and his blue paper booties? Order a Time Warner cable guy calendar.

As the AP report suggests, you’ve got lots of open-shirted installers posing with cables and flowers as thinly veiled metaphors. In case you were confused, these are actual technicians that are doing the posing, which would make for a very awkward visit the next time on of the chosen twelve are over at your house.

They’re free through the website. Somewhere. We couldn’t find it. [Yahoo]

Plus, actual pics here!

2000 Year Old Computing Calendar/Clock Replica Is Better Than Your Taskbar Calendar

Jason Chen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:20:00 +0000

A man reconstructed the 2000 year old Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient “computer” built by the Greeks to keep track of the moon, the planets and cycles. It’s as amazing now as it was then.

The video shows off how it worked. Turning the dial shifted the moon, the sun and planets around the Earth and let users keep track of where each was supposed to be. Michael Wright and his first working model of the Antikythera Mechanism then go on to show off stuff like keeping track of the Olympics every four years and seeing when there are going to be eclipses. That’s right, they could predict eclipses—which happen on an 18-year cycle—using this device! [Neatorama via Geeksaresexy]

Brando Clock Thermometer Has More USB Than We Know What to Do With

Elaine Chow — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:15:00 +0000

I sometimes wonder if the people at Brando have a competition going to see how many USB ports they could possibly put into one gadget. This alarm clock hub comes with seven, as well as a calendar and thermometer. With seven hubs (and knowledge of your room’s exact temperature), you could charge your iPod, warm your feet, warm your hands, heat your coffee, heat your lunch, humidify your cubicle and still have a port left over. Sure, having all those things running at the same time could cause some massive electrical shortage, but at least you’ll be toasty, moisturised and you’ll know what time it is. [Brando]

Question of the Day: What Gadgets Do You Use to Keep Your Life Organised?

Sean Fallon — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:20:00 +0000

I have to admit, I am nothing without my mobile—my whole life is crammed into that thing. Back in the day I wandered around aimlessly—my appointments scribbled down here and there on random scraps of paper. Fortunately, I manage to keep up these days because the software makes it easy and my phone is always close at hand. That having been said, I’m curious to know what tools you use to keep your schedule organised.

The Downside of Relying on Google for Everything

Adam Frucci — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:45:00 +0000

Oh, Google is just so great! They have the best free email, calendar, chat, photo and document sharing services, so why not use them all? Well, here’s why: they can lock you out of your entire account without any explanation or any way to get it back, pretty much erasing your online existence. It happened to Nick Saber.

Nick came back from his lunch break on Monday, tried to log into his Gmail account, and got the following message: “Sorry, your account has been disabled.”

When he emailed Google to find out what in the hell was going on, he got this less-than-promising reply:

Thank you for your report. We’ve completed our investigation. Because our investigation was inconclusive, we are unable to return your account at this time. At Google we take the privacy and security of our users very seriously. For this reason, we’re unable to reveal any further information about this account.

And this is a paying Google customer; Nick has paid for extra space on his accounts. Scary.

Eventually, after a few hours of hassles, he ended up getting his access back. But still, maybe you shouldn’t delete that old Hotmail account just yet. [Chris Brogan via Boing Boing]