Here's What's Awesome: Musical Pilgrimages, Frustration-Free Packages

Despite the downturn in other areas of the market, awesome link futures remain high, as investors try to shed themselves of declining non-awesome links. Meanwhile, rubber hardened and string remained confident. Here are today's top gainers on the Here's What's Awesome link index:

No one I think is in my tree (click for driving directions to the tree)
They say there's a story behind the writing of every song, but often there's a place behind the song as well. Music Pilgrimages takes some of these places and puts them on a Google Map, along with photos and tales. So far the site features only places in the UK, but there are plenty - along with song-specific places like Strawberry Fields in Liverpool, the site also features places where music history took place, from the birthplace of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett to where Keith Richards spent a night in jail. [Google Maps Mania]

Or you can trade it all for what's inside those 74 boxes
Amazon.com is testing out Frustration Free Packaging - meaning a single product is delivered in a single, eco-friendly box instead of a large shipping box holding a plastic container that can't be opened without power tools and loud cussing. Amazon is also asking customers to upload videos of their horrible packaging experiences, which I suppose you watch on computers or TV screens that you ordered frustration-free. [Inhabitat]

They have the Internet on computers now?
For computer-savvy people, the only thing more frustrating than opening unnecessarily complex packages is answering tech questions from people like me, who call or drop by with a constant barrage of questions we could easily look up the information ourselves. Now you can fight back with Let Me Google That For You, which sets up a fun and very passive-aggressive link to send to your computer-illiterate shadow. Here's a demonstration. [Los Angeles Times Technology]

Now it's your turn - share an awesome link of your own in the comments field. We will, however, turn away any awesome links that come wrapped in 20 twist-ties inside their plastic containers.

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