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The Cute Project — ’nuff said.

No, seriously, The Pillow Fight League complete with the league slogan, “Fight Like A Girl.”

To take it to the next level, the PFL should foster a rivalry with Kaiju Big Battel. Take that Dr. Cube.

The other day I spent several hours looking at different notetaking/writing applications for my laptop. I wanted something that would let me take notes, jot down facts, and organize disparate information on a number of projects. I looked at a number of commercial products before revisiting the much improved wikidPad.

I remember using wikidPad a year or two ago and finding it interesting but ultimately still too rough around the edges. Boy have the developers improved this product in the past couple years.

As its website puts it,

wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.

What makes wikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information.

I could go on and on about its features, but it’s free — if you’re interested in this application go download it yourself and give it a test drive.

Until literally a couple months ago, I had never used bookmarks in any incarnation of any browser. It wasn’t that I didn’t know how to use bookmarks, but that the implementation in most browsers was crappy. Even when the implementation wasn’t too shabby, a) most systems were useless once you got past a few hundred bookmarks and b) synchronizing between multiple machines was a pain.

So for the last decade or so, if there has been a site I wanted to re-visit, I’d typically just add it to this weblog or simply Google for it.

But I finally drank the bookmark Kool Aid when Michael VanPutten introduced me to SiteBar.Org.

SiteBar is a Web 2.0 application that lets you manage bookmarks online. SiteBar displays and lets you manage bookmarks directly in the browser. With a nice Firefox plugin, it shows up as a sidebar in Firefox that can be toggled on and off. And, of course, I can now access it on any of the several different computers I may use in the course of a day.

SiteBar.Org is free for up to 500 links, but you have to pay a nominal fee if you want to go beyond that. I don’t quite have 500 links but paid the Euro 11.88 yearly fee anyway to get access to the SSL-encrypted version.

And if you’re not comfortable storing your bookmarks on someone else’s server, simply download the GPLed server software that runs SiteBar and install it on your own box.

All-in-all an excellent example of a single purpose software that does one task and does it extremely well.

Secret World is an interesting collaboration by Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey and others to create a shared science fiction world where metahumans (superheroes) emerge in the 1940s (much like the Wildcards series). The series is being podcasted with a new episode every week.