Links that Bring Order to Chaos

WhizAlert sends you email alerts from postings on craigslist.
"I was looking for tickets to the US Open and it sent me an email when someone posted tickets. It was better than having to spend the whole day on craigslist searching for tickets." (Summer MUG 2005)

Need a photo, picture or textile expertly framed? Here's an excellent list of NYC framing resources.

Between 1939 and 1941, the city took over 700,000 photographs of every building and apartment house in NYC. You can order a copy of virtually any building for $25 (an 8 x 10 vintage print).

Renew your NYC driver's license on-line.

Digital Home DIY: Step-by-step guides that make home tech projects (like setting up a home theatre, networking, wireless etc) easy.

Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time.

Wine-Searcher.com
From THRILLIST: There's nothing worse than enjoying something immensely, then losing it forever: a song on the radio, a beautiful girl on the subway... fortunately, you'll never have to go through this with wine, thanks to Wine-Searcher.com.
Wine Searcher is an easily browsable online database accessing over 6000* vino stores worldwide. So if you've ever had a bottle that was special to you -- because of the way it tasted, or because of whose boots it facilitated your knocking -- Wine Searcher makes tracking it down as simple as looking up Christopher Lambert's "Notable TV Guest Appearances" on IMDB. Just type in the name of the wine and your location, and you'll get a list of merchants, the number of bottles they've stocked, and a price comparison -- allowing you to squander your rent money in the most cost-effective manner possible.