This site made my list for two reasons: the design is cool and the product is unique.

The site is very clean, attractive and perfect for the product… small amounts of pain medication and bandages in cute, 100% recycled packages.

I would suggest they look at optimizing their code… all the images are called via CSS and while the load time isn't terrible, it should be fantastic for such a minimalist site.

David Lebovitz is an incredible pastry chef who's written numerous books, teaches cooking classes and lives in France. But I didn't find him, or keep this URL, because of that. Slashfood is a foodie blog I read regularly via RSS, and one day in 2007 they posted a link to David Lebovitz's post "10 Insanely Delicious Things You Shouldn't Miss in Paris." Being the France-and-food lover that I am, I instantly clicked through, read it and kept it in my travel folder. I might not be going to France anytime soon, but when I do, I'll be ready.

Macarons, French baguettes and chocolate… it's an excellent list of where to find his best of France. And he's a pastry chef, so who better to trust for suggestions?

Edible geekery… what a perfect slogan. Paul Pape Designs creates chocolate Wii avatars in a console-shaped box, in addition to customized Wii figurines (and cake toppers!).

At Christmas, my boyfriend and I got a Wii, so for Valentine's Day, I got the chocolate box of two for him. Although some people noted problems during shipping, ours arrived completely intact and were a huge hit (the chocolate was really good, too).

I think I found this link via another blog, but unfortunately I'm not sure which one.

Shelfari just recently joined my bookmarks bar (i.e., about 20 minutes ago when I stumbled across it via the WordPress plugins codex), but after spending those 20 minutes rapidly adding books and reading others' comments about them, I'm in total love.

You create a free account (free is always better), create your personalized URL (similar to flickr) and then go to your shelf and start adding books. Fortunately you can add via author or title.. if you do author, it'll give you a list of all their books (perfect for me, since when I find an author I like, I tend to buy all their books). And each book has their own page on the site where you can go to chat about the book with other shelfari users.

The top two reasons I love this site? The interface is beautiful (actual shelf, with your books on them AND you can click-and-drag them to whatever order you wish) and I can add widgets to my blogs to show what I have or what I'm reading. I have hundreds of books, and while I've always wanted to catalogue them, the task was just far too daunting. This site allows me to catalogue everything I have at a much quicker pace.

For 34,000 Euros (right now $53,000 US, but you can't buy them outside of Europe just yet), you can buy a micro compact home and have it placed on property you own. It's very small (if micro and compact didn't give that away), about 9ft x 9ft x 9ft and weighs about 2 tons. However, inside there are two beds, a table, a flat screen TV, a shower and toilet, heat, air conditioning and a kitchen (with microwave, sink, fridge and freezer, trash compactor and shelves and drawers).

The first large-scale installment of the m-chs are at a college in Germany. They call it the 02 Village, and it has seven of the m-chs, inhabited by six students and one professor. The site notes that they loved it so much they asked to stay the entire year (the original plan was for just one semester).

Personally, I would love to be able to buy a small piece of property somewhere near the ocean and stick one of these on it. The price of a summer house near the ocean (even though we're in a recession) is still ridiculously high, so if you could find half an acre and get one of these dropped on it… presto. The perfect weekend retreat, for a ridiculously low price.

If you want to see one, MOMA in NYC is having a show titled "Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling" this summer and they will have an m-ch on display.

I have no idea how I stumbled across this bookmark, as I've had it for years.

In 2004 a guy named Sean McGrail decided to circumnavigate the world and write about it. I honestly don't remember how I stumbled across his site, but ever since I met someone on a round-the-world trip, I've wanted to take one myself, so finding this was great.

I hesitate to call it a blog because it was only updated for a few months, and to my knowledge, hasn't been updated since 2005. McGrail spent $22,371, traveled over 41,000 miles and visited all of the wonders of the world. His site still exists and is filled with funny anecdotes, excellent travel information (see "what I packed") and gorgeous pictures.

McGrail is from Boston, so in addition to basic gear, he took along his Red Sox cap, and somehow he managed to convince LOTS of people to pose, wearing the hat, in front of all the wonders of the world. Who does that?!

One thing that really struck me was that he wanted to take the 117 day trip alone. Several years back I traveled around the US for four months, and to this day, I wish I had convinced someone to go with me. Granted, back then blogs weren't that well known and no one I knew had a laptop, so my cellphone was my only connection to people from home.