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Lumosity keeps you from getting dumber

I'm a happy owner of a Nintendo DS and one of my favorite games for it is Brain Age, which lets you do a variety of small puzzles and arithmetic to hone your mental fitness. If you don't feel like shelling out $130 for Nintendo's hardware, there's Lumosity from Lumos Labs, a Web service that offers a similar multitude of small mental exercises that run right in your browser and are actually really fun.

Lumosity comes with nearly a dozen "games" to play, with each one working out a different aspect of your mental … Read more

Finds at the Stirr Mixer: Texting T-Shirts and Brainy Flash

Found at Wednesday night's Stirr mixer:

Reactee, which will print a custom T-Shirt for you with an SMS short code and your custom keyword. When people who see the shirt text your word to the short code, they get your custom message back. And you, my clever self-marketing friend, get their phone number. Just the thing for (a) L.A. actors and actresses waiting to be discovered by agents and producers whose tables they are serving, (b) people who want to broadcast their cause (there are a lot of Reactee customers in nonprofits, CEO Ariel Poler told me), and (… Read more