Deepmemo tackles competitors such as Google Notebook not with zillions of features, but by its simplicity. It comes in the form of an unobtrusive Firefox Firefox 3 or IE7 plugin… What makes Deepmemo interesting is its social features.

Here’s my Deepmemo page. Here’s a quote from real life. “Nothing slams on the brakes like somebody eating your sandwich.” That’s from Maddie, my 4yo daughter.

In 1933 a bathysphere expedition intended to break the world record for ocean descent was lost under mysterious circumstances. The cause of the disaster was never determined and no three-toed sloth was ever put in command of a bathysphere again.

That second quote inspired the image you (I hope) see. It’s by Phineas X. Jones, and I became aware of it via Robot Walrus.

Back to that first quote, the one about checker’d skulls. It’s from a receipt we got at Old Navy on Sunday, when I bought a 2-pack of socks for $1.99 (less than fitty cent a sock)! One pair has a checker pattern, the other skulls. No prizes for guessing which pair I expect to wear more.

The second is the startup Twofish. Virtual worlds need economies. Perhaps it might be best to outsource the creation of such economies to a specialist. Twofish is such a specialist. As the founder told GigaOm:

Most of the policy decisions about how an economy is structured will be decided by our development partners. Twofish Elements gives them the tools they need to intelligently make those decisions…and we put it all in a format that is easy to understand and even simpler to administrate.

Double piscine coolness.

• I would be too unnerved by my own pullover
• I removed my brother-in-law’s trousers