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Why didn’t we have the dual-sectioned business card holder all along? WANT!

Valleywag’s Nick Douglas posts Thursday about this post from the NYT’s Bits blog about the Dramatic Whitespace application for Facebook. You know you want it.

Of course, it’s now not cool anymore because everyone has it.

You know you want to buy the Transformers two-disc special edition DVD. I’m so psyched to get to watch this at home sometime soon. W00t.

Yeah, yeah, I know you don’t care, but I’m still *so* buying this poster. I mean, I need to replace the Miami Vice ones that Thilk hooked me up with last year.

Plus, I have an open wall in my office that needs decorating.

So, back in April I had gotten an Amazon.com gift certificate, and had promptly used it to pick up a few things, including a print sub to Dwell and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I’d expected to land on Saturday, given that I had guaranteed publish date delivery. Well, I apparently wasn’t the only one who didn’t get their copy, apparently, and I’ve heard the same from elsewhere.

This morning, I used Amazon’s help option, which takes you to a page where you can contact them directly from the site regarding your order in question. While the unfortunate thing with the site was that it didn’t see this order for me to “auto-populate” the fields with because it wasn’t “recent,” even though it said I was looking at recent orders and recently shipped orders, it did take me to an option where I could have someone call me right away. Actually, you type in your number, put in your order number, and it calls you right back, but then someone answers the phone. So, after maybe a minute of hold time, I got a great customer service rep who took some basic info from me to connect me to my account and order in question (the first question was the order, not like keying in all your crap only to answer it all again when you call the cable co), and he checked out what was up with my missing HP7. After about 30 seconds, he verified that I was good to go with regard to the guaranteed delivery, hadn’t set it up incorrectly, and that given the guarantee offered to me, they would refund that purchase to me within 24 hours, and that the book was mine to keep.

Am I bummed that I don’t have the book just yet? Sure. Am I kinda over it because I got my book paid for by Amazon.com and they stood by their word, really with no questions asked? Absolutely. Now, I’m sure if I were a parent of two and my kids had planned on spending Saturday afternoon or Sunday reading the book I might feel differently, and would probably have gone out and bought it at the store had it not shown up by 7pm on Saturday evening anyway, but that’s neither here nor there. Great example of good business sense, and hopefully for Amazon (and UPS / USPS) there aren’t too many people who didn’t receive their HP7 this weekend, or the dollars involved might look a little different when it all shakes out. I mean, it’s not like they make money on it anyway.

My pal Joy just IMed with this item from Eater, about how NYC’s Magnolia, famous for its cupcakeness, was shut down (until at least Friday, they say) for not having two sinks, as declared by the Board of Health in the city.

What will the hordes of people coming to re-live something that some people claim was made big by Sex and the City, but was really pretty good all along?

What will Chris Thilk do without Magnolia cupcakes?

If this isn’t one of the best inventions of all time, then I’m really not sure what is. I mean, who wouldn’t wear that simply because a good portion of the world’s population wouldn’t have any clue what it was?

Via the incomparable Thrillist, natch.

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned my pal Loren’s supertacular Knock on Wood Wood, and she let me know that Max Kellerman mentioned her invention on his ESPN Radio show on Thursday in the NYC area. That’s very awesome.

Go, Loren!

Just caught this item over at Seeking Alpha where they’re talking about how staggering the numbers *could* be for Apple’s iPhone and Cingular (sorry, I’m not calling it AT&T, The New AT&T, at&t, or Cingular, now the new at&t anytime soon), should the product live up to expectations.

Aside from the non 3g-ness of the device, I’m still sure it’s going to sell a ton within the technorati folk, which is just crazy, considering how “behind” this is in the grand scheme of things. At the end of the day, though, most mobile network technology, and devices, are behind the curve of what the rest of the world has – no, really – so it is what it is. I’ve gotta say that I’m not at all up for renewal or a new device on my Cingular plan (not until Feb of ‘08) but I would be *very* surprised if Cingular didn’t let me re-up mid-term and buy the phone at one of the contracted rates, wouldn’t you?

Okay, so this is totally pandering to a pal of mine, but I’m doing it anyway because that’s how it’s going to be. I wouldn’t post it if I didn’t think it was worthwhile, so you don’t have to worry about that. Believe me, I only bring you the most important time wasters and items that you and I both want to buy (or in the case of Pumas, items that I want to buy but you want to buy for me, too), and this is most certainly somewhere in the middle there.

Check out what Loren came up with, because it’s absolutely brilliant as a random idea of something that actually makes sense.

Knock on Wood Wood

Yep, that’s what it is. You know you want it. Buy in bulk, she’ll thank you, and so will I.