PolarClock
description At last—a screensaver that trumps the Ken Burns-effect slide show of that hike to Waimea Falls! Flash and Flex developer Gabriel Bucknall’s after-hours project gives us a new reason to sit idly at our computers, literally watching time pass. http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock/ PolarClock, available for Mac and Windows, represents month, date, day, hour, minute, and second in concentric arcs that lengthen as time goes by. Download the screensaver at http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock blog.pixelbreaker.com/polarclock and the http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301015085&mt=8> iPhone app from iTunes. 
The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination How could we not love a book subtitled http://www.amazon.com/Geeks-Guide-World-Domination-Beautiful/dp/0307450341 Be Afraid, Beautiful People? Alpha geek Garth Sundem tackles pressing issues like the Great Myth of the Metric System, Five Classic MacGyver Hacks, and Tongue Twisters in Languages of Fewer Than a Million Speakers. The info may boost your nerd cred, but we guarantee it will not get you a date.
Early Typewriters Exhibit
description Think texting on your RAZR is tough? Imagine selecting each letter using a slider bar. That’s how people wrote with the keyboard- free 1890 Odell 2. It and 44 other vintage typewriters are on display at http://www.maestroquality.com/blog/2008/11/04/gateway-to-the-information-age/ Toronto International’s Malton Airport Gallery until mid-March. Some even allowed the writer to see what they were typing! You’ll never complain about iTap again. 
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
description If a geriatric British explorer’s hunt for magical golden armor doesn’t pique your interest, try tackling puzzles at the same time. http://www.gamepro.com/games/ds/142661/henry-hatsworth-in-the-puzzling-adventure/ EA’s genre-bending mashup for Nintendo DS throws enemies and tricky jumps onto the top screen and challenging brainteasers onto the bottom. Switch successfully between the two and you’ll be rewarded with the vim and vigor of youth, delicious tea, and an unstoppable robot battle suit. Bloody goode show! 
Sites of Impact
description Earth has 170 documented scars from falling space rocks. A single meteorite can leave a wound as big as 236 miles wide (like South Africa’s Vredefort Dome). For his http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7819/path,1/title,Sites-of-Impact/ debut monograph, photographer Stan Gaz captured these craters by pointing his 20-pound Hasselblad rig out of helicopters worldwide. The result is this epic and sometimes creepy 85-picture survey in black and white. 
Handsome Furs: Face Control
description Bouncers at Moscow clubs can be blunt—http://www.subpop.com/releases/handsome_furs/full_lengths/face_control if you’re fugly, you’re not getting in. Inspired by this ruthless velvet-rope technique—aka face control—this Montreal-based duo’s sophomore LP shores up anthemic, Springsteenian melodies and stadium guitar hooks with cold drum-machine beats, blippy synthesizers, and lyrics about the post-Soviet free-for-all that is Eastern Europe. What a country! 
Baconnaise
description Fact: Most everything is http://www.baconnaise.com/ better with bacon.* Problem: the requisite prep and cook time. Solution: Inject the salty-sweet hammy goodness into a spreadable (and kosher!) condiment. Our new fave Frankensauce is concocted from no less than 23 ingredients, including natural smoke flavor and, um, tocopherols (to preserve porkiness). But trust us, you won’t believe it’s not bacon. Probably. *The few things that can’t be improved with bacon: orange juice, Star Wars, Facebook, Radiohead, chocolate (ed. note—can too!). 
Miami Vice: Season One
description Nearly 25 years have passed since Michael Mann redefined television and ’80s fashion with http://www.amazon.com/Miami-Vice-Season-Don-Johnson/dp/B00005JLEY Miami Vice. Forget the campy pastiche of pastels—this neon noir, available on DVD, is a testosterone-soaked masterpiece of impossibly fast boats, women, and cars (shot lovingly with Mann’s signature wheel-mounted cameras). Jan Hammer’s soundtrack heightens the tension, and Crockett and Tubbs’ banter imbues the show with a surprising charm. 
myopenbar.com
description Budget cuts. Layoffs. Credit crisis. Meh. Tough times call for stiff drinks, penny-pinching, and a few more stiff drinks. Add http://myopenbar.com/ this Web site to your RSS reader, sign up for the weekly newsletter, or follow a Twitter feed that serves up all the events, art openings, screenings, and parties that will be pouring free booze in select cities: New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, and Honolulu. Rock bottoms up! 
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Beware
description Singer/sometime-actor http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/147473-beware-bonnie-prince-billy-album-due-in-march Will Oldham goes by "Prince" but doesn’t make doves cry, and he’s prone to lyrical metaphors approaching Dadaism. Move past the scattered arrangements of his latest record—ostensibly about love—and you’ll find a sweet throwback to classic American folk with appealingly nonobvious melodies. Nothing to fear here.
