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Don't make him be without you tonight!

Back when I was growing up, even though the neighborhood kids and I possessed hefty imaginations and lilting singing voices, all we had to document our travails were tape recorders and cumbersome video recording equipment. Thus, the only people who ever bore witness to our masterpieces were our parents, and even they were often disinterested.

However, thanks to the current golden age of the internet, true talent no longer is no longer squandered, and certainly not so for Pensacola's epically bespectacled Mark Gormley. These days, all you need to become a bona fide rock legend is some home recording equipment, a green sheet, the movie making software that ships with your computer, and a dream: with these simple items, you're free to create beautiful and expressive videos that can convey your spirit to the world. In my humble opinion, the world is exponentially better for this, and in particular, Gormley's majestic video entitled "Without You".

Remarkable?

Truly.

The classic black

Convenient earbud holder, too

A coordinated kit from Sumajin

Fishies

The best headphone cable tidy ever.

Normally here on Overlooked, we post about things that are truly for sale online. However, in this case, I needed to make an exception. Proporta is a real store (in the UK)... they mostly sell things like cases for mp3 players and cameras and GPS devices. They also sell cable tidies.

Cable tidies are, for the most part, a good idea done wrong. To the right you can see several takes on the same theme. They are based on the idea of wrapping the slack in your headphones cable tightly around a core. I hate this design.

• It's slow and annoying to adjust the amount of cable you're wrapping up. Because the core is small, each wrap is a very short length.
• More importantly, due to the tightness of the wrapping, they permanently kink up your headphone wire. After you unwrap the wire, it resembles something between a lightning bolt and a slinky.
• If you wear earbuds (and I do) the things weigh just enough to drag them slowly out of your ears.

Proporta has a better idea. The picture does it better justice than I could with words.

But I'll try, because otherwise I'll leave some awkward whitespace on the page. Basically, the wire isn't tightly wound, so no kinks. Less bulk (it seems from the pix), so not as much pulling. And winding and unwinding should be a cinch, since the loops you make don't have to be itty-bitty to wrap around the thin core.

I might even order and have one shipped from overseas because I don't see any vendors selling it domestically. The magnetic closure would make for a rapid opening and closing.

It also shoots bees from its mouth when it roars.

Ok, back to why this post is an exception. We have reason to suspect that the Big Cat Hunting Stilts, despite being listed on Proporta's site for a price of one million Pounds, are not truly a product for sale. From the item description:

I'm assuming that the page is really just an artifact of testing their e-commerce system. I tried to cart the item, but the site just hung.