This one’s dedicated my brother Chip, a brilliant parody of the 1998 Barenaked Ladies song “One Week” by CollegeHumor.

For comparison, here’s the original video for “One Week”.

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A Parody of Barenaked Ladies’ One Week” by College Humor

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You Have To Burn The Rope :: and save the day.

Here’s The Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) from The Stanford University Center for Computer Research (CCRMA) playing “Stairway To Heaven” on their iPhones at The Crunchies 2008, a web industry awards ceremony held in San Francisco.

See Previously: The Crunchies 2008, An Awards Ceremony For The Web Industry

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Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra Plays Stairway To Heaven

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“Mac vs PC” by Dan Chianelli and Nick Greenlee

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Mac vs PC

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Teens in Tech 2009, a conference for teenagers and technology organized by Daniel Brusilovsky and Sam Levin, takes place January 31st at Microsoft San Francisco.

The Teens in Tech Conference is bringing youth and technology together in San Francisco. Learn from teenagers what they think about the current trends of teenage technology. Feel inspired to create technology, at a younger age all the Teens in Tech Conference. From developers, to entrepreneurs, to video-blogging, find it all the 2009 Teens in Tech Conference.

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Teens in Tech 2009, A Conference For Teenagers & Technology

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guest post by Todd Lappin (Telstar Logistics)

I’m a big fan of the Alemany Flea Market, held every Sunday on the site of the Alemany Farmer’s Market off Alemany Boulevard near the 101/280 junction. The vintage pickings are pretty good at Alemany, and it’s always a fun place to browse. I went last weekend; here are a few things I oogled but didn’t buy.

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Beautiful Things at the Alemany Flea Market

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Play With Spider

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Fireclip, a free plug-in that monitors specific sections of web pages, puts the at-a-glance convenience of the OS X widget screen in a Firefox tab.

Using Fireclip is darned easy. Activate with a shortcut (Alt+Q) or from the Tools menu, and its sidebar pops out. Hit "Select Clip," and you can mouse around to see the pre-defined sections of the page. Click once, and you'll be asked to re-size your selection with the familiar two-directional arrows at the edges of your area. Double-click inside the area, and it's locked in:

You don't have to be precise at all with your selections, so leave any dead space or visual cues you want around the edges. Opening Fireclip's page with the same shortcut gives you a space you can re-arrange however you'd like with your clips:

So, okay, Fireclip actually works and all, but what use would it be to the average surfer? Amit Agarwal's screencast of Fireclip might explain it better than my words:

Fireclip is a free download, works wherever Firefox does. I encountered a recurring pop-up ad while launching the clips page, but wasn't sure whether it was Fireclip itself or one of my clips.

Blogger Anastasia didn't want to pay $44.99 each for four seasons of Stargate Atlantis—she wanted the online price of $19.99. Using her phone's data connection, she managed to knock about $96 off her purchase.

Anyone who's done some serious price comparison might already know of Best Buy's strange differentiation between online and in-store prices. Anastasia found her way around that schism by buying the items online from her T-Mobile G1, while standing in the store she wanted to pick them up from. The only tax was about 20 minutes of waiting, most of it waiting for the email confirmations to return—and, let's be honest, most of us can find something to gawk over for a short while in an electronics store.

Read the full details of her use of post at the Long Live Geeks blog for complete details of her quest, and read up on Best Buy's In-Store Pickup policies at their site. How have you worked around the online/brick-and-mortar divide at Best Buy or any other retailer? Share your strategy in the comments.