Anyone seen this thing: the Cricut cutting device (Link)?

Late last week while scoping out displays and purchasing some sample products, I walked by an aisle display with these things on it (actually, the smaller version). I may have heard of this device, but I’d completely forgotten about it. Apparently it’s only been out for about two years so my forgetting isn’t a big surprise. Just goes to show where my mind has been the past year or two and how little time I spend in craft departments at large retail chains. Only I didn’t see this in the craft department; I saw it in the general aisle with everything else.
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I just come across a post on New World Notes (Link) mentioning a competition I like: a virtual architecture competition with a $5000 EURO prize.

Meltemi Editore, a publishing house based in Rome, is sponsoring a contest to design their SL office…

First submission deadline is May 20. Winning design team comes away with 5000 Euros– about $6762, or L$1,818,978.

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Okay, so I read yesterday about the competition to design Coca-Cola’s virtual dispensing machine over on Mashable (Link). Initially it sounded like something in which I’d participate, especially since I have what I think is a pretty good concept. Unfortunately, having just surfed through the competition site and read over the details, I’ve decided to keep my ideas to myself instead of volunteering them to a mega-corporation in exchange for … hold onto your drinks … a possible plane ride to someone’s office.

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Getting caught up, I found an entry on Raph Koster’s blog (Link) of interest. In it, he refers to a review by Tom Crawford (Link) for an apparently new entry into the virtual world platform race: ProtonMedia’s “ProtoSphere” (Link).

Interesting and worth keeping in mind because some of what Crawford mentions in his Pro’s and Con’s sound reasonable and commendable (I’ve not tested this so I don’t know how accurate his comments are, but will take him at his word).
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Considering I was briefly pulled away from the InfoBlogoSphere and am currently busy catching up on all the news(?), a worthwhile blog meme is probably the last thing I need to expedite getting back up to speed. However, having been included on KuiperCliff’s list (Link) and finding myself both in excellent company and flattered by those associations, how can I not? So here goes with my five nominations for “Thinking Bloggers” (who also, I suspect, aren’t very well known):
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