So Mushy Gushy Though they had their day as a novelty back in the late ’90s, e-cards have since become the lazy person’s way out of sending greeting cards for important (and even unimportant) occasions. Mushy Gushy (www.mushygushy.com) strives to put some zing back into the category by allowing an extra level of personalization: familiar faces! Use their easy interface to upload and then “cut out” an image of your or your intended recipient’s face, then choose from Mushy Gushy’s library of animated Flash greeting cards. The many card options let you choose whether to feature multiple characters, and some let you cut the photo puppet-style to let its jaw work along with a voiceover. It still might not replace the warm-and-fuzzy of finding an envelope in your mailbox, but who wouldn’t want to receive a “Gushygram”? Bigger is Better Until the day comes when oversized printers are available—and affordable—for home use, we’ll happily settle for Block Posters (www.blockposters.com). This site allows users to enlarge any digital photograph and print poster-sized prints on a home printer—though with some assembly required. Just upload a photograph and decide how large it should be (measured in how many sheets of 8.5” x 11” paper it should comprise), and Block Posters will generate your poster as a multi-page PDF ready for download. Simply print it out on multiple sheets of paper and reassemble the “tiles” into the finished poster. A bit of tape, some thumbtacks, or even a poster frame (or series of smaller frames) will leave your masterpiece ready for hanging. All About ME!!! Artist Nicholas Feltron designs web sites, logos, editorial illustrations and print materials for a variety of clients in his NYC studio. For the past several years, he’s also produced The Feltron Annual Report (www.feltron.com), a compendium of personal statistics that would rival the annual report of any major corporation. Detailing such minutiae as Teeth Lost by Cat (1), iTunes Tracks Played (25,247), and Pounds of Magazines Received (77), the 2007 report is a riveting peek inside the life of a pretty regular guy. The beautifully designed charts, graphs, and diagrams belie the sheer tediousness of the content—which can only be a good thing when you’re reading about a stranger’s annual Estimated Milligrams of Caffeine Consumed (83,565). Dude, Where’s My Phone? So you’ve put your cell phone down. Somewhere. Again. And it’s simply vanished. Your roommate won’t be home for two hours, you haven’t had a land line since ’02, and you need to call in an order for Chinese food. Right. Now. What to do? Just hop online, visit Where’s My Cell Phone (www.wheresmycellphone.com), enter your number and wait for your phone to start ringing. The site offers the service for free, and doesn’t retain any record of cell phone numbers entered. Now, if you could just remember where you put your laptop… All About MY STUFF!! You’ve got del.icio.us and any number of similar social bookmarking sites to keep track of all your online stuff, but how can a modern packrat maintain an inventory of all of their real stuff? Enter Delicious Monster (www.delicious-monster.com), a digital cataloguing system for all of your books, movies, music and video games. Simply scan the bar code from any of your digital media, and you’re on your way to building out a full catalog of all of your stuff (if you have a Mac, that is, since it’s the only platform compatible at this point). You can assign ratings to your items, get recommendations of other titles you might enjoy, email info to your friends, and even download a list to your iPod to take on-the-go. But with an entire library of entertainment titles to choose from, who would ever want to leave home? Lost in the Details With three and a half seasons’ worth of intrigue, an ever-growing cast of characters, and now the element of time travel in the mix, ABC’s smash hit Lost can leave viewers feeling a bit, well, lost. Turn to Lostpedia (www.lostpedia.com) to help wrap your brain around the latest plot twists and multiple storylines. The site’s staggering array of content offers something for everyone, including a scriptwriting contest, discussion boards, podcasts, and— blessedly—a timeline. You may not find out for another season or two what exactly the polar bear means, how the black smog works, or where the giant four-toed foot statue came from, but Lostpedia will help you keep all of the details straight in the meantime.