Radium is a new way to listen to internet radio. It sits in your menu bar and stays out of your way. And it just works.

With its clean user interface and album cover display, you’re always just a click away from beautiful sounds. Add your favorite tracks to the wish list and check them out later on the iTunes Store. Take the sounds with you using Radium’s built-in AirPlay streaming support. It’s all there.

With the proliferation of services like Spotify and Pandora, why choose Radium? Because with Radium, you don’t have to build up playlists, constantly answer questions about your music preferences, or navigate a cumbersome user interface. Radium is all about the sounds. And these sounds come from over 6000 free stations, maintained and curated by real people like you.

Available for $10 on the Mac App Store. Check it out.

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My thanks to Radium for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Akin to the piece I wrote yesterday, this is a great article by Jon Bell about how any bad idea will do when you’re just trying to get moving:

I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.

An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!

It’s as if we’ve broken the ice with the worst possible idea, and now that the discussion has started, people suddenly get very creative. I call it the McDonald’s Theory: people are inspired to come up with good ideas to ward off bad ones.

Great work from Mike Rohde. Certainly the nicest handwriting font I’ve ever come across.

What’s new in the Yahoo Weather app version 1.0.3:

Beautiful new icon

Oy. Not only is the new icon not beautiful, it’s far worse than the previous one. I like Jason Stoff’s simple suggestion regarding the previous purple version: just ditch the “Yahoo!” from the icon and you’ve got something that’s pretty nice, right in line with the Yahoo brand, and which matches the design aesthetic within the app as well.

Dr. Drang points out there’s no free lunch in physics. But one thing he doesn’t mention (nor that I’ve seen anyone else mention either) is that big ice cubes are cooler than regular ice cube. And by that I mean they are more awesome. A fun drink with a big fun ice cube or two is, well, more fun.

Fracture prints your photo in vivid color directly on glass. It’s picture, frame & mount, all in one.

It’s a modern, elegant and affordable way to print and display your favorite memories. Your print comes with everything you need to display your photo, right in the durable packaging.

Fractures come in a variety of sizes and prices, starting at just $12, with free shipping on orders of $100 or more.

Fracture prints make great Father’s Day gifts and are the perfect way to fill up empty walls in your new home or apartment. Check it out.

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My thanks to Fracture for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Combining the dour wisdom of the philosopher Kierkegaard with the modern philosophy of the … something something Kim Kardashian:

To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, & some knowledge of human passions. LIKE me on Facebook to learn more!

Ok one more:

A little makeup lesson for a friend: Tears do not quench the gleam in your eyes; pallid cheeks are all the more soulful.

But seriously this is the last one, this time from her spiritual twitter brother, Justin Buber:

The Thou is beyond description, not a mere list of named qualities. But I love ur eyes & ur hair, & the way ur jeans fit is makin me stare

This is a guest post by Nate Spears, who has taken over the site this week while Shawn is on vacation at an undisclosed location.

This is a piece from NPR’s StoryCorps about a daughter’s love for her unique mother. You should listen to the audio instead of skimming through the text.

This is a guest post by Nate Spears, who has taken over the site this week while Shawn is on vacation at an undisclosed location.

Yes, that is a one-liner. I doubt I will have time for anything substantial today so please accept this gem of a headline as my apology.

And for dessert, here’s my favorite silly classified ad.

Thanks for all the nice feedback on the footy piece. I learned something about football etiquette that I didn’t know before from a couple readers: Man U is an offensive way to refer to Manchester United, because of its use in offensive chants by terrible people. I edited the article to remove uses of the phrase.

Finally, I learned that Shawn doesn’t like double spaces after sentences. Like, REALLY doesn’t like double spaces. :)

This is a guest post by Nate Spears, who has taken over the site this week while Shawn is on vacation at an undisclosed location.

Since Shawn does Youtube Fridays on occasion, I thought I’d switch it up and do a Youtube Monday.

Post title stolen from a comment on the video itself. Here’s the setup: capuchin monkeys like cucumbers, but they like grapes more. Some experimenters use this info to investigate the effects of unequal pay for equal work.

Reminder to those who skimmed my first post: spearofsolomon is my google id, please feel free to email me.

This is a guest post by Nate Spears, who has taken over the site this week while Shawn is on vacation at an undisclosed location.