Wow, I am so loving Fast Times At Barrington High by The Academy Is. It’s their newest release that’s scheduled to hit stores on August 19, 2008. Like just about every single major release, the album has started to hit stock rooms early and people have leaked the album in its entirety online. But that shouldn’t matter much because the entire album has been streaming on their Myspace page for a while now.

Personally, I think this album is their best effort yet, and critics and fellow musicians seem to agree (from what I’ve been reading).

If you want, you can check out outtakes from their album cover photoshoot by Bourtney Beckett.

Summer Hair=Forever Young

I totally recommend listening to “About A Girl”, “His Girl Friday”, “Automatic Eyes”, “Paper Chase”, and “One More Weekend”. Heck, that’s pretty much all the tracks anyway. Just listen to the whole thing. It’s good!

Get it here: Sharebee.

Julia Mariscal has created the Writing Spoon, a spork-like utensil that features an ink-pen tip that you can use with the drink you are consuming.

When you dip the Writing Spoon into a cup of coffee, you can use the coffee’s dark color as ink to write a letter or create a work of art. It’s a pretty ingenious device that I’d love to have during my coffee breaks.

From the video below, it looks like the Writing Spoon is surprisingly accurate in taking the place of an actual ink pen. No word yet on how much this will cost, but I hope it comes State-side soon so I can pick one up!

See Chrome Metropolis.

Here’s how the Olympic dives are recorded. They use a camera that falls at the same speed as the diver. The camera is called the DiveCam.

Stores in NYC will now get fines for leaving their doors open and letting the air conditioning out onto the sidewalk.

Secrets!

About.com got redesigned and it’s a lot cleaner now (at least on the front page).

Slashdot.org now has a section to collect all of the non-tech crap that filters on through. It’s not all that great; it’s mostly what geeks and nerds find funny…which often isn’t very funny to everybody else. Just nerdy.

Wow, Melbourne is thinking about converting a portion of the CBD into a summer beach area. That’s going to be weird!

Take a look at this minimalist apartment in Soho, London!!!

Busta Rhymes - Gimme Some Mo

The gold medal chart above for Michael Phelps’ wins in the Beijing 2008 Olympics is taken from his Wikipedia entry, which you can bet is being hammered right now with edits from people all over the world wanting to put their own spin on his 8 lucky gold medals.

CONGRATULATIONS TEAM USA!

This win places Michael Phelps as the Olympian with the most medals won in a single Olympic Games. In the 112 years of modern Olympic history, Michael Phelps is the ONLY person to ever win 8 gold medals in one game.

This man is in a league of his own. Really amazing, just amazing!

Wonderbra UK has put together this ad featuring a mosaic of hundreds of women in their bras. The ad is advertising Wonderbra’s D to G line of bras. You can zoom in several times and see the women up close.

In response to some of the recent events covering our wordly news, here’s a mockup by Streeter from CollegeHumor of what Earth’s News Feed might look like on Facebook. Pretty good, pretty good.