The 360 Electrical outlet, with rotating sockets, is just the invention for our gadget charger laden times. But what I really need is a power strip that solves the same problem. Their “coming soon” menu hints that they are working on one. I found a “power strip space saver” on ThinkGeek that keeps adapters off the main strip. It’s a messier solution and harder to unplug, but fine for plugs that stay put.

The various Angel Flight organizations arrange for volunteer pilots to fly those in need of medical care to treatment locations. AngelFlight West serves the western U.S. states. Pilots pay their own costs. Last year 94 pilots flew 497 missions in Washington state, which means there’s a flight happening every day just in this state alone.

Buried in this article about a new condo development, Washington Square, in downtown Bellevue is the news that a Top Pot Doughnuts will be opening in the retail portion. Yummy doughnuts!

To add to your list of things to do when you’re out of things to do on the Internet (yes, it can happen): search yelp.com for reviews of U.S. post offices. I found a review of the tiny neighborhood post office I like to use, a murder location in Chicago, a happy encounter with a nice guy in NYC, and raves upon raves for a San Francisco USPS open until midnight. Who knows what else lurks in the other corners of the country?

To be gephyrophobic (afraid of bridges) and live on Staten Island is to be virtually trapped at home. Jan Steers finally left the island after 13 years with the help of therapy and a mild tranquilizer. There are numerous bridges in the New York metropolitan area for the bridge phobic to avoid and the N.Y. Times discovered that you can actually call the New York Thruway Authority to request someone to drive your car over the Tappan Zee bridge. When I saw this article my thoughts went to the see-through walkway at the top of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With my fear of heights it is impossible for me to walk across it with my eyes open, though I don’t have trouble with other bridges. To my surprise, that same walkway is actually mentioned in the article.

Alton Brown has signed a 3-year deal with Food Network. He’ll be building on all three of his existing shows with new Good Eats episodes, hosting duties on Iron Chef America, and “Feasting on Waves,” a follow-up to his “Feasting on Asphalt” series with time in the Caribbean on a boat instead of a bike.

“It looks like a cross between a barn and a ski chalet with a little Jetsons thrown in.” A former Denny’s restaurant in Ballard, originally a Manning’s Cafeteria & Buffet, had distinctive enough 1960s architecture that the developer owners pre-emptively asked Seattle’s Landmarks Preservation Board to take a look, expecting they would pass it over for landmark status. Instead the board voted to consider designating the distinct structure as a landmark, spurred on by those concerned with the loss of Seattle’s roadside architecture. The developer was likely taken aback and the future of the building, regardless of the decision, is unclear.

For anyone nostalgic for Cambridge, MA in the 1980s, especially Harvard Square, here’s a set of photos of some long-gone Cambridge storefronts. Pizzeria Regina, Paperback Booksmith, the Wursthaus, all gone. Some places I used to frequent are still around: Border Cafe, Bertucci’s, Grendel’s Den. And the Uno‘s chain has managed to still hang on, though it’s evolved. (photo set pulled from a lengthy unrelated Metafilter thread best left unlinked)

A rather large butter sculpture is featured this year’s Pennsylvania Farm Show. 1,000 pounds of butter donated by Land O’ Lakes was carved into a depiction of three students and a cow boarding a school bus. After the show, the butter will be turned into biodiesel at Pennsylvania State University and State College High School.

Mmmmm hot chocolate featured in the Seattle Times: either make it yourself or visit a local hot chocolate spot.