Genius solution for storing pencils thanks to those purveyors of useful items, The Museum of Useful Things. $18 and comes filled with one dozen General’s Test Scoring Pencils (one of the only pencils still manufactured in the USA). (via Museum of Useful Things)

I read about Ghostwriter Notes on Patrick Ng’s Scription blog. It’s an iPad app that allows users to create handwritten notes on an iPad screen using a finger or stylus. “Pages” may be exported to photo album, Dropbox or Evernote. It allows for PDFs to be imported and annotated. It appears to get decent reviews…

Check out this lovely photo from Rhodia Drive of a sales display from the past — maybe the 40s. I love the notebooks in the center while the ones along the edge don’t look all that different from the Rhodia notebooks sold today. Pretty cool, huh? (via Rhodia Drive)