mindtoss is the personal blog of stephen chip, a creative director living and working in boca raton, florida

In addition to the remastered Beatles CD set, you can also get the boxed set on a limited edition USB drive. The packaging is quite clever. The stem pulls out of the apple to reveal the USB drive. Here’s a description from Amazon:
The exquisitely crafted, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the critically acclaimed re-mastered audio for The Beatles’ 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes. A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB’s audio and visual contents will be provided in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac.
A hauntingly beautifully black and white animation by MIE.
Alienate your friends. Old McDonald had a FARM(ville). This parody ad is funny and right on the money. Keep your farm cash and your FARMville!


Use IdeaPaint to turn the existing walls around your office or home into a dry erase board. Why search for a piece of paper when you can just write on the wall!
Each kit covers 25 square feet of space. Simply apply the paint just like you normally would – with a roller.
Purchase a kit at Behance Outfitter.

The basic premise of SendMeSomething.org is to do just that. You send a self addressed envelope to the address listed on the site and they will send you something. According to the FAQs on SendMeSomething, you probably won’t receive anything of any monetary value. Nor will they send you something evil like cat vomit. It’s a surprise!
Their goal is to have it back to you in 2 -3 weeks. They’ll even send you something even if you live outside of the United States provided that you put enough postage on it. The people behind SendMeSomething claim it’s a self funded project and fairly inexpensive to administer since the items they send are of little monetary value and the postage is pre-paid.