July 2008
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Milkcrate Digest →
Living the Milkcrate Lifestyle
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saving silverman vol.23 →
It is hot in Little Rock this week. Hotlanta hot. Which leads us back to:
Matt Weddle covering Hey Ya! originally recorded by Outkast.
I’m out of words now…
Re: Cephalopod by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning... →
thank you defective yeti. you made me cry.
matchstick man →
Teaching college kids how to use the internet is like teaching a fat boy how to eat a donut. That is exactly the situation I was in back in April when I guest lectured to Advertising students at…
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Drank: We Review Drank, The "Anti-Energy" Drank →
…the anti-energy drink that promises to “slow your roll”…
Vivid Imagery In Modern Web Design | Design... →
(via dukeboyne)
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A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs | How-To |... →
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The Jetpack - From Comics to a Liftoff in the Yard... →
Found via Boing Boing.
It would be unbelievable cool to see a sky full of thousands of these things commuting to work in the morning.
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Inhabitat » GET READY for Park(ing) Day 2008! →
Found via PSFK.
We are making our plans now for the parallel spots just outside our office windows:
Sod
Grill
Lawn Chairs
Tiki Bar
cannonball run →
So, here they are, the entrants in the for the First Dooce Almighty Memorial Blog Give-Away. I am delighted to say that I know and care about each one of you guys. I am also glad…
dooce almighty →
42K comments on a single blog post begs attention. In the world where I work, it demands attention. So, the extraawesome Dooce broke through to my adfeed.extraawesome.com last…
WatchFont Conference - via College Humor
“This video wasn’t long enough, so we made it double-spaced.”
summer school (part 1 of 2) →
Anderson / Godin / Li and Bernoff
At the house where the dude abides, we are in the heat of the mow-ment. Yesterday’s bush-whacking welcomed me with 100+ degrees of love…
iLike Launches Full Song Playback and Ad Platform →
via TechCrunch
iLike, the music service with a massive following on Facebook and increasing popularity elsewhere, has introduced full-song playback on its flagship site,…
wordplay →
here is the wordle for wholebrevitything.com:
i’m out of wordles now…
(get it? its funny, right?)
saving silverman vol.22 →
Mama Mia opens today, so, I give you U2 covering Dancing Queen originally recorded by ABBA. (you can listen to the original here)
I am out of words now.
Time lapse video of a designer laying out an... →
Time lapse video of a designer laying out an article for a magazine. I could watch stuff like this all day. It’s also the type of video I wish were on Vimeo…sometimes YouTube is like watching a…
For your inspiration, creative advertising... →
For your inspiration, nice collection of creative advertising campaigns.
Tentacle Building →
From the minds of DeviantArt’s Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas, comes the tentacle building. Located somewhere in France, Filthy Luker’s cheeky title for the building is, “Octo-pied Building:…
tequila sunrise →
Friends, I’m in need of a little help. The National Lampoon’s Jones Family Vacation 2008 has crossed the midline, and I haven’t put together my Shoreline Sunset playlist yet.
Can you help a…
Improv Everywhere's Human Mirror →
Cam Barrett, a participant, mentioned an aborted four-hour prank at Starbucks [via]
Handwritten Typographers →
comparing type designers’ handwriting to the typefaces they created
The Big Three on the iPhone 3G →
Everyone else is still under NDA, but David Pogue’s, Walt Mossberg’s, and Ed Baig’s reviews of the iPhone 3G and iPhone OS X 2.0 are out. Such are the benefits of writing for the three…
Can Prayer Lower Gas Prices? These People Think So... →
Some people think we don’t have a prayer of gas prices dipping below $3.00 for a good long haul. These parishioners holding hands around a Shell station beg to differ. They’re part of a group…
Pulse - shapeshifting emotion visualisation →
Pulse is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs of blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms and…
joe dirt →
This part of the world is known as “The Redneck Riveria” and some days tthat name seems completely unfair. Then there comes a day like today, and you think “oh, yeah. totally earned.”
Sarabeth’s…
the legend of baggy pants →
The dude’s golfing prowess was again on display, today. My father-in-law was kind enough to let me whack away until the ball landed in the cup on each and every hole. That’s…
sweet home alabama →
The annual family vacation has begun. I’ll post more about it here, but I’m tumbling a ton more of it across the street at wholebrevitything.tumblr.com.
Briefly, let me say this, after…
Creed Thoughts →
Shared by Jones
via Creed
The 4th of July is tomorrow and some would say it’s the greatest American holiday. Not me. I think America Day beats the pants off of the 4th of July. You may have…
Sign Design Fail →
Thx Ivanov
Google Maps FTW (Thx Qwertz): Here’s the location. You can even see the signs on the street view, although someone seems to have run over a part of the signs on the left… no…
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Rolando →
via Computerlove
Rolando is a new physics-based platform puzzle game for iPhone & iPod touch, taking advantage of multitouch interface from the start. Created by indy…
Highres Textures →
via CSS Mania
IF YOU COULD… JULY →
via It’s Nice That - Blog
Tom Gauld (pictured) and Letman do prints for this months If You Could Print Series. Available till 31st July.
www.ifyoucould.co.uk
why I am a designer... →
via swissmiss
Why I am a designer. I think we could add way more here. No?
(thank you david)
swiss medicine box →
via swissmiss
Medicine Box with White Cross
(via bemlegaus)
Classic article from The Onion: Somebody Should Do... →
via kottke.org
Classic article from The Onion: Somebody Should Do Something About All the Problems.
I hear jabber-jabbering about the discovery of new subatomic particles….
Sophistication Fail →
via FAIL Blog
Thx My Very Own
Scenes from a Franchise →
via Subtraction
Whether or not Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” turns out to be any good when it’s released later this month, I want to just enjoy for a little while…
The Evolution of the International Typographic... →
via Bad Ass Ideas
The popularity of generated content and social media is transforming the web. No longer does a site need a flashy intro or exciting graphics to entice a user to…
saving silverman vol.21 →
Through the magic of the google, last week I re-connected with one of my oldest and dearest friends, Mark Austin. Shaggy (a.k.a. Mark) and I had not been in touch in about 5 years,…
Keep Rocking: 30+ Sites for Free & Legal Music →
via Mashable
Downloading illegal music has become a hot topic on the Web. So much so that it’s easy to forget about the plethora of sites dedicated to free, legal music….
Guitar Hero Figures From McFarlane Toys →
via Geekologie
Thats right folks, McFarlane Toys has partnered with Activision to make a line of Guitar Hero themed action figures. They’ll be hitting stores in…
The FLARE system →
via Computerlove
Flare Facade is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to…
10 Essential Sites for Tips and How-To’s →
Mashable has assembled a voluminous collection of How-To Sites for the not so handy… that would be me.
saving silverman vol.21 →
Through the magic of the google, last week I re-connected with one of my oldest and dearest friends, Mark Austin. Shaggy (a.k.a. Mark) and I had not been in touch in about 5 years,…
“For years, I’ve been able to convince web designers not to design using Adobe...”
– Andy Beal