The bookcase is usually for holding all things besides your lazy butt. Not so anymore. Wacky Canadian designer Fishbol has killed two birds with one stone. The Fishbol Bookseat is a double-wide plywood take on the lounge chair (it also happens to have the ability to hold an entire set of encyclopedias, and then some). The fluid design is surprisingly light and easy on the backside, which means you might actually use the thing besides being a great conversation piece. So grab a partner, take a seat and reach down for a book.

Buy: contact for a price quote.

Mother’s Day is right around the corner. And when you care enough to just hit send, SomeEcards.com has your back. We’ve been fans for quite some time now, and have sent more SomeEcards than we probably should have. These brutally blunt, painfully funny eCards are inarguably the coolest thing to happen to the greeting card industry since… well now that we think about it, greeting cards have ALWAYS sucked– until now. Take some time, scroll through SomeEcards, and prepare to laugh your ass off. Many of these cards have colorful language, but that’s what we GearCravers live for. We’ve got four of our favorite NSFW cards after the break…

Visit: SomeECards.com

Looking for the ultimate summer project? Sure, you could paint the house, clean the basement or hell– start a band. Why not think about a project that could ease your finances and your carbon footprint at the same time? EcoModder.com has the details on how to modify your car to run more efficiently, increase its MPG performance, even run on alternative fuels. Surprisingly, its not as difficult as you think. For example, you could buy a simple kit for nearly any production car of the last ten years that would take minutes to install and allow your engine to run on Ethanol. The possibilities are nearly endless, and the EcoModder community is a testament to this. Check them out, learn more about what you can do with your car, and find a way to save money and keep your conscious as green as can be.

Visit: EcoModder.com

May 11th, GearCravers. Remember that date: Mother’s Day is May 11th. With just over two weeks to go, its time you start thinking about a gift. Of course, GearCrave is going to make it easy on you– and we’ll start by showing you a great gift for the culinary Mom in your life. Today’s website pick is TasteBook.com, a cook book publisher with a unique spin: its cookbooks are completely personalized to each cook. Members can add their own recipes, use those suggested by TasteBook editors, choose their own cover images, titles, even add their own photos. The result is a professional cookbook that is customized to your own taste. If this is something your Mom would adore, here’s what we suggest. Pay her a visit, and when she’s not looking, snag her personal cookbook. Borrow a few of the recipes you loved as a kid, then add them some of the editor’s picks from TasteBook. Voila, you’ve got a gift that’ll melt her heart like butter. Your siblings will be furious they didn’t think of it first…

Buy: $34.95

Do you absolutely love accounting? Like, passionately? Neither do we. We hate it, actually. That used to mean that we didn’t have an easy, effective way of managing our own money that didn’t put us to sleep. Before you run away screaming, “No, kill it with fire! Death to accounting!”– we suggest you clear your mind and give a fresh new option some thought.

Enter Mint.com. Mint is a web service dedicated to making your personal finances easy, intuitive and virtually effortless. Best of all, Mint is free. Since we just passed tax season, many of us are making new tax year resolutions to get financially fit. Unless you have a private accountant, you may want make Mint your personal assistant to getting those finances on track. Give it a shot, try a free account, and let us know how Mint works for you.

Visit: Mint.com.

Thirsty?  You’re looking at an alocholic’s super-encyclopedia.  ExtraTasty.com is a social networking web service that lets its users share drink recipes and create new ones with ingredients as tags.  Take a look through your home bar, see what liquors you have, enter them as tags in the ExtraTasty system.  Say all you’ve got at home is gin and juice.  Fair enough, enter those two items as tags in the ExtraTasty search engine and voila– here are 33 recipes to make starting with gin and juice.  Should you invent something new and tasty, share it with your ExtraTasty friends from your profile.  As you’d expect, drink recipes on ExtraTasty are boundless, they range from the straightforward cocktails to the very strange.  Either way, you’re in for one hell of a good *burp* time.

Visit: ExtraTasty.com.

If you like Digg and love sports, you’re going to feel right at home at BallHype.com. But to say that BallHype is a digg clone is selling it short. Sure, it does operate on a similar “democratic news” voting technology, but BallHype takes this another step further. BallHype uses a technology that scans RSS feeds of major sports news sites and blogs and recognizes stories on the same subject. So when Wizards star Gilbert Arenas returned from injury last night and the story ended up number one on the site, BallHype’s technology found 12 other stories on the same subject and added them to the “links” section.

Due to the amount of basketball news from the NBA and NCAA of late, much of the front page stories at BallHype are on this subject. But football, futbol, NHL, Golf, MMA and racing fans will love the content here. Just visit your favorite category at the top and begin voting the stories you find relevant. For sports news social media, there is no one doing it better than BallHype.com.

Visit: BallHype.com.

We’ve been Pandora.com fans for some time now. Fans, yes– but not without a few complaints. After a while, Pandora’s playlists can get a little stale, especially when you have niche tastes like we do. GearCrave reader Dave told us to give a newer service called Slacker.com a try. We did, and we enjoyed. Slacker is a user customizable internet radio service where members can listen to genre, artist, DJ, and user-defined radio stations. Like Pandora, there are “skip ahead” limitations– with Slacker, registered users can only fast forward 6 times per hour. We can’t fault Slacker for that, however, as those decisions are made by everyone’s favorite litigious bastards, the RIAA. We suggest giving Slacker a shot. Its kept us entertained and working happily for the few days we’ve been using it, we think you’ll enjoy it too.

Visit: Slacker.com.

Sick of snail mail spam? So are we. Thankfully ProQuo.com has come along and promises to clean up the environment and your mailbox by stopping unwanted paper spam.  One way or another, your name has been listed on thousands of marketing lists that are traded and sold between advertisers.  This leads to all those credit card offers, mortgage refinancing offers and other nasty solicitations that clog your mailbox each day.  ProQuo can help you remove your name from those marketing lists and stop the unwanted paper spam– meaning you get the mail you want, and a few less trees get cut down each month just for you.  ProQuo is free– we recommend giving it a shot!

Visit: ProQuo.com

There are travel sites, and there is Kayak.com.  Where Expedia and Hotwire show you the deals they want you to see, Kayak.com takes a total coverage approach to finding you the cheapest flights.  Kayak scans all the major airlines (and some of the boutique providers) as well as all the major travel services.  If Expedia can get you a better deal on a United flight than United can, Kayak gives you the choice.

Kayak also succeeds in their bare bones, don’t-insult-my-intelligence layout.  Save for the familiar google text ads on the right column, there are no ads, no flashy promotions, there aren’t even any pictures of palm trees.  Just a solid search tool, great filtering options, awesome results.  Where Travelocity is travel 1.0, Kayak.com is a revolution in “MetaTravel”.

Visit: Kayak.com.