Wow. My friends, the future is here and this is possibly the greatest use of this here interent thing I’ve ever experienced. Yellow Arrow is a communal, social internet mobile mashup technology, allowing users to create mobile tours, viewable over the internet, but more precisely, mobile phone tours to be conducted in real-time whenever you find an “arrow” in presumably any country that Google Maps covers. To beautifully demonstrate the power of Yellow Arrow, an interactive mobile walking tour and online documentary about the Washington DC punk/hardcore scene was created, where physical and virtual users are able to take the walking tour of where everything happened in DC punk, watching 10 mini-documentaries, featuring interviews with Alec Mackaye, Brendan Canty, Cynthia Connolly, Ian Mackaye, Ian Svenonius, and many many many more who were there when it all began and who graciously share their fondest memories with us.

Read more: Capitol of Punk – A walking tour and online documentary about DC punk

I can’t count how many times I’ve been in the office and needed to keep whiteboard sketches from a meeting, only to have them erased by someone who didn’t pay attention to my “DO NOT FRICKIN’ ERASE” note. Those days are over, thanks to the genius web application scanR. With scanR, you simply take photos of business cards, whiteboards or documents using your mobile phone (have to have 1 mega-pixel+ camera though) or digital camera, then email or MMS them to scanR. In return you’ll recieve an activation code in order to create your account and set where you’d like to receive your scans. You then get the business card, whiteboard or document you scanned in your email (or you can set someone else’s email, say, a business partner) in PDF format, ready to print out and save.

Read more: Scanr – Scan, copy and fax from your digital camera or cellphone

Founded in January of 2006, Squirl is a new social networking service (go Ruby on Rails!!) for collectors, allowing them to organize and share their collections via photos and descriptions while virtually jumping up and down, waving their hands rapidly. Users are able to create their own personalized site via Squirl, using over 30 customized templates, which also comes with action-packed features such as messaging, commenting, RSS feeds and privacy measures to insure you won’t tempt another user into dropping by and making off with your collection of Victorian fine-toothed beard combs.

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Typetester is an online application used by web-designers to compare different fonts on-screen during the planning stages of a project. Extremely useful for those who don’t like to implement, then change, Typetester is a an extremely slick example of fine CSS and xHTML implementation and includes examples of almost every font bundled into the most popular operating systems for comparison.

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Website monitoring services are nothing new, but many do in fact suck to use. The last monitoring service we used went down more often than our server(s) and had so many false-positives that we ditched it and vowed to give up with third-party monitoring. Then we started using Montastic which provided an extremely simple interface allowing us to get up and running in around 20 seconds, with all of our servers reporting back green (as in go!). Montastic allows monitoring for up to 100 servers/domains as well as the ability to check server status via your personal RSS feed and your very own Yahoo widget.

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Brilliant brilliant brilliant. I love SwarmSketch and find myself wasting way too much time throughout the day voting on other user’s strokes. SwarmSketch is basically an ongoing collective sketch, where users are allotted a certain amount of strokes per visit with which they are allowed to add to the collective drawing. After their allotted strokes are used, the user then is invited to vote on other user’s strokes, in effect darkening up-voted strokes and lightening down-voted strokes. Every week, a popular search term is chosen randomly, which determines the sketch subject, with this week’s subject being the subject of “Mythbusters”. Come join the collective.

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Aer you bored with the camgirls teasing you into sending them money or dancing outside of Ironforge in World of Warcraft? If you’ve been looking for a little bit more, wondering what exactly it all means and where you fit in to everything, then take a visit over to A Brood Comb. The brooding philosophers have been collecting hours upon hours of online philosphical talks and presentations from various companies and universities, free for you to watch and contemplate on those late nights when you just can’t fit another raid in. Everything from cognitive computing to the meaning of “ouch” and “oops” are covered, with more being added as they come in. Get your brain on folks.

Read more: Archive of online philosophical lectures

In a smart move, MySpace has announced they will begin selling DRM-free MP3s from over 3 million bands through it’s new music service. The service will be powered by Snocap, a great new service which is the child of Napster founder, Shawn Fanning, and will no doubt launch a few more ‘indie’ band’s careers. Bands will be able to control which songs they sell, payment is done via PayPal with only a small distribution fee required by SnoCap.

Read more: MySpace to sell MP3s from over 3 million bands | Snocap