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The idea of relying on an external brain is nothing new; dealing with the enormous amount of data required for modern day living seemingly necessitates relying on some form of technology to fill the gap.  How often do you now purposefully remember the index of where data is stored (eg,  on Wikipedia), rather than the information itself (eg, the worlds shortest war).

Over on TechCrunch they explored Evernote, a program now being released as a searchable web interface, that essentially acts as an extension of your long term memory.  “Evernote lets you highlight any portion of a Web page and clip it, or take a picture with your camera phone and send it to your PC or the Web. Each of these digital “notes” is archived and can be searched, including any words (even handwritten ones) visible in those pictures.”

In a sure sign of the apocalypse, Microsoft is releasing a line of action figures based on MS developers. The bios read essentially like personas, and the intent is to get the users (in this case the developers) to collect them. One can only imagine what a line of Vista and Office end user figures would look like, but it would likely involve some lifelike pulled out hair and interchangeable confused and angry faces.

 
Starbucks, probably in reaction to the rise in overly complicated drink orders is teaming with Apple to allow iPod touch owners to create their order on a screen, on their own time.

For anyone (me) constantly waiting for black coffee behind the person ordering the triple, Chia, Mocha, No-whip, whip, classic, soy, skim, latte, this is definitely a move in the right direction Re: decreasing barista mental workload.

Not a bad interface, maybe they should enter our contest?

Check out this funny Gizmodo post pointing out the fact that the Windows Vista packaging requires instructions to open.