Donning that snazzy tux doesn’t mean your bow tie comes equipped with a camera and your cummerbund has tiny explosives. Secret Message Cufflinks indulges your spy fantasies. These stainless steel accessories with stud backings from Red Envelope, open up to reveal mini scrolls of paper — some with the wise sayings from the likes of Lao-Tzu and Gandhi, and others written by you. So whether your looking for sage advice or just carrying important government codes, your secret is safe up your sleeve.

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Whether you fancy yourself an elite member of the Twitterati or you’d rather just give your friends information on a need to know basis, there’s absolutely no denying the ubiquity of the hottest microblogging technology since someone posted a twitpic of sliced bread. However, many people are already getting bogged down by the thought of crafting lengthy 140 character posts. If only there were some way to tell other people what we’re doing faster. Well now there is … but there isn’t … but there is. Slate V’s mockumentary on a new application called Flutter gives the semi-absurdity of the Twitterverse an appropriate sendup. No matter how addicted you are to constantly renewing your status, you’re sure to get a good laugh out of this absolutely delicious satire.

Going through my ridiculously large memory box this past weekend, I came across a few particularly classic ’80s items amidst old report cards and photos: colored rubber bracelets, a two-sided Swatch phone and a photo of me wearing clear jelly shoes that took begging and promises of finishing my homework to get. It looks like I’m not the only one recently waxing nostalgia. With the Cons History Hunt, Converse Brazil is asking the public to send in videotape footage, homemade DVD vids, photos—whatever recorded memory you have—of their shoes in a serious effort to build up their archives.The best photo gets a rare, blindingly white sample model of the Cons CTS shoe in size 40—I’ll leave it to you sneaker freaks to decode what this size is in American speak—which comes in a sleek wood shoebox. Unfortunately the contest is only open to Brazilians, so if you want these shoes that bad and think you have the winning photo, I suggest you make a Brazilian amigo real fast and do some negotiating.

Walk Score assesses the “walkability” of a prospective area by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. The application measures the ease with which you could navigate a neighborhood on foot, not necessarily the safety of doing so. Walk Score peppers Google Maps with local conveniences, making it a very popular widget for real estate websites. In the current economy, knowing the nearest watering hole to your new condo is important info indeed. San Francisco ranked in the #1 spot for city with the most walkable neighborhoods, followed closely by New York. Despite the old Missing Person’s song, Los Angeles came in at a decent 9 out of 40. I guess people just choose not to walk in L.A.