As if there weren’t already enough ways to waste time on the internet, here comes Chime.tv. It’s a website that brings the videos hosted on Youtube, Veoh, Dailymotion, Google video amongst others all to one place. Sounds great, right? With a database that big, you should be able to find anything on Chime. You should be able to watch yourself eating breakfast this morning as captured by spy satellites. You should be able to watch Lebron James’ junior high school games. You should be able to see every episode of Transformers in its entirety. Theoretically, anyhow.

As with all first incarnations of web start-ups, there’s some kinks to be worked out, but how the site works is explained by a blonde hottie in a short instructional video. As for the videos themselves, rest assured that if you search the same term in Youtube and Chime, Chime will bring you different results. It’s especially useful for hard to find videos. For instance, my roommate and I were trying to find videos of an old SNL sketch called “The Chris Farley” show. In one “episode,” Chris interviews Sir Paul McCartney (”hey, remember when you were with the Beatles?”); Chime found it in a Google video, but no one’s uploaded it to Youtube yet. In that sense, Chime is to Youtube as Dogpile is to Google. It doesn’t need to be your first resource — who’s to say it doesn’t have the potential, though? — but it’s nice to know it’s there anyway.

–Dan Steckenberg

“Sweeter than Honey, Better than Gold…” I love that saying for some reason; it reminds me of a Kings of Leon song, but after further research, I found out that it has a more religious connotation. At any rate, I also think it does a pretty good job of describing Jens Sjobergh’s design work. Jens recently updated his Airgroom Site with his new and impressive design projects, and it’s definitely worth a look. The self-taught Swede-turned-LA dweller has a distinct style that mixes a sense of urban grit and decay with the gleam of materialistic dreams, although it seems his style is ever-evolving. Case in point: this warm, buoyant image from somewhere in the 3rd trimester. Keep bringing it Jens!

I’ve been taking home my groceries in reusable bags for a few years now. It’s easy, it makes the cashiers happy, and it makes me feel kinda good. One downside for those cloth bags, though, is that they seem to take up a lot of room. For example, keeping a few in my car (so I know impromptu shopping trips won’t leave me with piles of paper/plastic after unloading) and a few at home leaves me with a lot of bags on my hands. In the interest of simplification, I think I’m going to scoop up a few lightweight, hard-working Baggus. These insanely compactible earth- and people- friendly shopping bags hold almost 3 grocery bags full of goodies thanks to their super-strong, rip-stop nylon construction… then fold up in to a flat 5×5 inch square that you can even squish into your pocket. The best thing about these bags (aside from the fact that they’ll help you save the world, no cheerleader necessary) is how cheap they are: you can score a set of three for just $28. Baggus come in a bunch of fun colors, all of which you can check out on their website.

You know, you can always tell a true lady by the way she totes her necessities when traversing the Swiss Alps. Like my mother told me, there really is no better way to test ones dedication to beauty than to forge a snowy pass with perfectly applied glitter eyeliner. It’s a good thing that Paul Frank happens to be the neighbor and friend of Urban Decay, because were it not for that desirable situation, 750 of us would be left without this Swiss Glamour Camping Kit, a very limited-edition make-up/sunglasses/bear-proof (oh, kidding!) travel case combo that will help to keep the adventurous side of your lady well balanced with, well, the lady. The set includes a bunch of fun Urban Decay make-up and your choice of some awesome (actually, the more I check them out, really awesome) sunnies. However, the case itself might be the number one best thing about the whole get up — check it out up close on Urban Decay’s site (which is also the only place where you can purchase the set). Mountains, ho!

This week has seen some serious life changes for me, most notably the purchase of a new MacBook, marking the end of a three-year run with my beloved Powerbook , and signing a lease on my very own one-bedroom apartment (with a walk-in closet! And full kitchen! And a back yard!) in Brooklyn. I guess this places me in the “big girl” category” now, and naturally has me focused on one thing: furnishing my new digs. Once upon a time I would have done an IKEA run & dump, but editing this site along with years of retail merchandising for various design and organization companies have made me a little uh, snobbish refined my tastes considerably. It’s not that I don’t love me some IKEA — what apartment is complete without a bookcase whose construction makes you borderline suicidal? — but I’m just kind of past the generic dorm-roominess of it. Some people get creative and hack theirs up, and others take cues from the flat-pack system and create their own.

The Emergency Stool 5 is a laser-cut piece of baltic birch plywood which breaks apart to create a stool or a side table in, dare I pun, a snap. The instructions are etched on top of the stool, eliminating the need for paper instructions. A far better conversation piece than one that starts with “So, I got the bloody thing home from Elizabeth, New Jersey, and it had no allen key in it…”

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With the much anticipated Live Earth concert rapidly approaching (14 hours, 36 minutes until launch), I thought it’d be interesting to poll you, the JoshSpear.com readership, about your thoughts surrounding the concert. It’s going to be happening simultaneously on 7 continents, includes over 100 musicians, will be webcasted on MSN, and will purportedly reach over 2 billion people. The aim of Live Earth is simple: it’s a call to arms to garner widespread awareness for our global climate crisis. Will Live Earth effectively convey the important message that citizens of the earth can make small individual commitments to curb climate change, and convince people to make those changes, or will the concert be, as one academic put it, “just another gig that will consume enough energy to power Arkansas for the next century and leave a carbon footprint that will validate the sasquatch?” It’s your earth; let’s talk shop…

Today marks the official release of the second edition of If You Could, the annual publication that shares 112 artists’ answers to the question, “If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?” The new issue, which once again offers pages and pages of great work by both well known and up-and-coming artists (and is limited to a run of 1000 copies), is the subject of a coinciding launch party/exhibition taking place tonight at the London branch of exposure gallery. Every single contribution that designers Will Hudson and Alex Bec received for the issue will be on display, and I’m sure — thanks to the incredibly incredible line-up of artists that are represented in the book — that the opening will be well worth it for those who can make it. It doesn’t look like I’ll make it there in time…because there’s this ocean…but I can still get my very own copy for a reasonable $35 (shipping included) here.

via Computerlove