Sure a flash drive is great for storing billions of bits of information, but you just have no reason to put your mouth on it. UNTIL NOW!!!

FlashHarp is a 4G playable drive that comes pre-loaded with smiles and a 10-minute Quicktime harmonica lesson. Only a terrorist wouldn’t want this.

Available for $59.95 at BackyardBrand on Etsy .

As an added bonus, here is a homespun video from its eerily cheery creator, Jim McLean, who is apparently a fan of rhyming couplets, WTF and neckerchiefs.

via @LuckyAmeliza

Shooting a super funtastic sketch for Web Soup.

These two are ACES in my book!

The most vital element of product development is “deliver what you promise.” This young woman has nailed that. You may also notice her deft implementation of core UNIX philosophy: “Do one thing and do it WELL.” I must track her down and make her my new head of marketing.

Ringtone, perhaps?

via @johnandrewwalsh

These wonderful geeks have been delighting by breaking creative molds for a decade and a half. I less than three them a lot. This is, without a doubt, the best ad for an album EVER.

This awesomeness was shot in Prague, Czech Republic on August 23rd, 2009. I saw this light tube forest set when they played last summer in San Diego and it really is stunning in person. Also digging shaggy Thom. He’s like a young old Nick Nolte.

Thanks to Gerry Duggan for hipping me to this. Pass it on! Radiohead wants you to because they are smart.

Download “These Are My Twisted Words” for NO MONEY at w.a.s.t.e.

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Hey Design Nerds! I’m about to order a new batch of Nerdist business minicards from my favorite card makin’ company moo.com and I would like to include YOUR design!  I will use EVERY piece of art submitted within the correct guidelines for moo’s tiny rectangular cards (below). My only request is that you involve the word “Nerdist.”

I think user-generated artwork definitely jives with the vibe of the site and I am looking forward to seeing what the Nerdist concept means to you!

Make all GIF, PNG, JPEG or PDF submissions to stuff@nerdist.com. You can follow the artwork guidelines below while simply usingthis template!

Artwork guidelines

I thank you!

Novelist Jack Torrance, whose mysterious death outside the infamous Overlook Hotel in 1980 sent shockwaves through the writer/caretaker community, apparently had been working on a book when he died. His surviving widow, Wendy Torrance-Thnettlebaum, whom neighbors describe as “shrill and blubbery,” was not available for whiny comment.

Available at blurb.com.

Tune in to Chelsea Lately tonight at 11p ET on E! to get the explanation to this photo (also to see me, Whitney Cummings & Brad Wollack).  There may be insults hurled at those more famous than ourselves.

via Web Soup Tumblr

Sleek, snazzy form also has great swiping on glass face. When you first launch, a robot-y voice blurps “DROID” like a classic 80s robot that answers everything with its own name. On an unrelated note, a woven basket is probably not the best place to keep a guitar.

Schwaaa? A slide-out keyboard??? You feel like the keys are going to be too small but they actually catch your fingertips quite well. On the downside, the keyboard adds considerable weight to the phone.

Just slightly thicker than its sparring buddy the iPhone (shown here with a red Moshi shell), Motorola claims that it’s the thinnest phone with a slide-out pad, perfect for your newborn keyboard kitten.

Capture pics with a dual LED flash in 5mp, or video in 720×480, for when you want to get those perfect spur-of-the-moment nutshots to send to your favorite Web Soup program.

Not pictured here are some of the cool enhancements to Android 2.0 which provides new slick in-phone menu navigation as well out out-of-phone navigation with a native turn-by-turn GPS level-up power for Google Maps (which I didn’t get a chance to test). I only spent a half hour with it, so I can’t give you as in-depth a review as I’d like. For more specific info make sure and watch “Attack of the Show” on G4 today at 7p ET.

Quick first impression? I’d say with Verizon’s Adamantium network behind it, this is a pretty kick-ass phone for the $200 you will trade for it.

ADDENDUM: Getting a lot of “…but would you trade your iPhone for it” questions. This is a personal preference decision. For me, no I wouldn’t. My priority is hardware over network and there are too many things about the iPhone as a device that I love. DROID seems pretty solid, though, so if you’re already on Verizon OR network strength is the most important thing to you then this is a great way to go. Besides, Verizon should give you 30 days to return it (double check that) so just take it back if you don’t like it.