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February 2, 2007

Boeing 777 wing ultimate load test.

Watch this an I assure you turbulance won't freak you out as much.

Crackdown achievements.

I can not wait to do the base jumper.

Indie Fonts: Three.

I need to write about typography books.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!

Best title yet.

Now you too can be Jack Bauer.

Stupid clueless daughter optional.

Boston needs to ligthen up.

Don't let fear get the best of you.

WORST. ROBOT. DAY. EVER.

"Order Here" part kills.

That's not just any 1959 Cadillac.

I wonder if they would take a web design company in trade...

Where's my iPod?

Oh to be wanted by a game company.

How to grok (that means understand) web standards.

I still say it smacks of butter and waffles.

Photoshop CS3 preview: The new interface.

Just make the beach ball go away and I'll be happy.

"She designed a plumbing system inhabited by a bluegill fish to detect an attack on the drinking supply."

I'm going to install this over the weekend but mine's going to use a cougar.

Who will be the big losers when the Internet revolutionizes television?

General Electric.

Get Humanized.

Awesome work Naz!

BFD.

It's interesting to see how much web design is influencing newspaper design.

iPhonica: Vol. 2.

Icon series inspired by the iPhone interface.

Intrigue: 11.

Lovely.

Hail wallet.

Hurry, they're gonna go quickly.

T-shirts for wearing while walking in Boston.

A collection.

Continue reading "T-shirts for wearing while walking in Boston." »

Imitating a scanner darkly.

Not for the feint at heart.

Continue reading "Imitating a scanner darkly." »

Airborne.

Nice air!

Continue reading "Airborne." »

Poetry in Paint.

Because you can never get enough Jasper Johns in your day.

Continue reading "Poetry in Paint." »

Keep calm and carry on.

Lets run a telethon and buy a bagillion of these to post around Beantown.

Disney has sold 1.3M movies through iTunes.

I wonder what the ratio of Pixar vs. the rest of Disney is.

February 4, 2007

AirPort Extreme 802.11n unboxing photos.

I got mine this morning and it's unbelievably fast.

"Why did you add this button to the user interface?"

Dilbert continues to deliver.

Jetman.

That looks like a hell-of-a-lot of fun.

Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

Been there, done that.

The "bros" over at BMW Club Malaysia have a sense of humor.

Unlike the red-necks who send me hate mail in response to used airbags.

Tron revisited.

I wish they would do more with the franchise.

February 5, 2007

The money maker.

Nothing to shake here. Pure currency design gold.

"At a time when Hollywood is struggling to redefine its appeal...studios are bringing in outsiders to work on film graphics."

The web could use a little intervention from other disciplines. Don't miss the slideshow.

"...it's getting a little out of hand."

I'm with you Garrett. We all knew this was coming the day Yahoo bought them.

A brick pit.

Now who says we haven't benifited from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome?

What hands can do.

Another classic commercial from our German friends.

Major Konami news coming Monday.

My guess is they are being purchased by Microsoft.

Rainbow parkade.

Apple and The Beatles are friends again.

No mention of their catalog being available in iTMS.

Torture

and Office Jungle. The best commericals from yesterdays men-hitting-men challenge:

Seattle.

February 6, 2007

Giuliani joins Republican race for president.

So much for John McCain.

When astronauts attack.

I blame Tang.

"Web 2.0 Usability and design experience is required."

Porque?

Thirteen alternatives to Helvetica.

Anything but Helvetica!

"When Disney tries to be hip, it looks like a good-natured dorky kid trying to act cool."

Not everything in life needs to change.

Back in 1994 it was alright to use animated gifs, tons of white space, and marquees...

Wow, you learn something new every day.

Coolest Star Wars art I've seen in a while.

And they kicked it off with Boba Fett!

Netdiver's Best of '06.

The only best-of web design list you're going to need.

February 8, 2007

A dollar short and a day late, not.

Nice work fellas.

North Korea ready to talk nuclear disarmament.

The Whitehouse has to be doing the happy dance.

Anna Nicole Smith is dead.

Found unresponsive in her hotel room.

Monsters and Madmen.

Check out the cover art. Fantastic!

February 9, 2007

Warning: do not click-through unless your are completely, absolutely color-blind.

I wasn't prepared and the doctor says it's going to be a few weeks before my retinas return to normal.

A List Apart on hieno. Jasonin sivut ei putoo mulle yhtään.

Toisen Happy Cog-duunari Greg Storeyn oma saitti on hieno.

Win $25M for the most innovative way of sucking harmful greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

Unless they throw in the Branson's Earth ball, forget it.

Gosh, you mean the military lied to us so they could go to war?!

Golly mister, can that be true?

Quiz.

A hidden gem with a little hint of Roger Black.

Toyota Scions now available for one dollar.

Amazing how affordable things are in the Second Lifes.

Sumo!

Javascript Microformats goodness.

I didn't get the memo about Pipes but it looks promising.

It's like an Erector set for the Internet.

Daily monster.

The best distraction I've had in ages.

February 13, 2007

Make that battery earn it's free meals.

If that doesn't help have it watch televangelism, that will make anything want to get back to work.

R32!

Please tell me it comes with six-point harnesses.

"If you want to read the New York Times online, you will have to pay."

That's one of many interesting quotes about the NYT's future. Khoi, have you seen this?

North Korea agrees to stop nuke program.

I credit Alec Baldwin.

February 19, 2007

Cigarette packs.

Communists sure can make an attractive package.

Out of five.

Ten songs chosen by ten individuals, weekly.

Get the original, one of a kind, Darthbook.

Ryans' taken great care of it and it's ready for a new home.

When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Eek, eek.

Should I be mortified that I have two JetBlue flights in March?

Note to self: bring PSP and extra batteries.

Typographical contrast.

When uppercase and black gives way to bold and blue.

February 20, 2007

Erasure vs. Nashville.

Better known as: We aren't relavent in pop anymore so lets cross over to country.

February 21, 2007

Frenzic!

Iconfactory never fails. Can't wait to play.

Seven ways to ensure customers will not hate you.

Hey, I have put my spin on things, you know that.

An emerald apart.

Not sure about that Mike guy but the rest of program looks fantastic.

February 22, 2007

Virgin gets NASA to develope commercial spacecraft.

I didn't know NASA did contract work, sweet! How much to build the Deathstar?

Prince goes to war (no, the other one).

I bet newspaper sales are going through the roof in England.

Know when to buy your Mac.

So useful.

Caravans.

Nix, this job's for you.

Apple will always take you back, you know that.

Quake Wars announced for 360.

Good news for those of us who like to hunt people.

Red 5's pitch.

Ode to be wanted in the gaming industry.

February 23, 2007

Designers sniff the zeitgeist.

We also see the Matrix.

Interchange.

Real life HTML tags.

The first photo would suggest we need a <nerd> tag.

Yeah. we're going to need a lot more marinara sauce.

And a chainsaw, not sure a table knife is gonna do it.

History of Flight.

The evolution of a brand.

Don't miss the chart.

February 24, 2007

Shaving your head to beat the narcs.

White trash knows best.

Happy Dance Tron vs. DJ I Hate My iPod.

I blame Myspace.

Walmart, in South Carolina.

Tell me that's before/after a hurricane. Someone, anyone?!

February 25, 2007

Salon awards Alec Baldwin an honorary Oscar.

"Baldwin shines in too many movies to list, and although he's different in every role, his performances often bear trademark qualities."

"...an OpenID is not an account."

Now, how long before it's encrypted with PGP or something similar?

February 26, 2007

CompUSA to close 100 stores.

They should save themselves the trouble and liquidate everything now.

Gifts from the GDR.

Ah the communists and their brick gift coal.

Pimp my scoota.

Ciao!

Scorsese wins first oscar for best director.

I would have given it to Alec Baldwin, just because.

Hello.

The iPhone commercial.

North America vs. the A-241/BIS Device.

"Notice, of course, that they leave Cuba intact."

"The issue here isn't why there aren't more women speaking at web conferences, but why there aren't more women interested in web nerdery."

Boosh.

Call it what you like, it's still Frontpage.

And it's still going to suck.

Howard Schultz on the loss of "romance and theatre".

It all started with those damn automated machines.

"For better or worse, I look at the world with a blog designer mind."

I'm sorry.

Web 2.0 University?!

Really? Seriously, is this the best that mankind can do right now? Really? Oh, that's too bad. Any chance reptiles might want to take over again?

Ebony and ivory test together in perfect harmony.

If the results are positive I want to see a live reunion TV show.

February 27, 2007

Swfir is here!.

Web standards compatible, Flash based photo manipulation.

Where our standards went wrong.

It's been all downhill since we lynched the blink tag I tells ya.

"Content is not locked away in a swf. The swf should/could be simply the way of displaying the content."

Interesting.

White House photoblog.

February 28, 2007

A new Ning.

I'm doubtful but I hope the work we did helped.

Ryan Irelan on the Hivelogic Radio Show.

For the ladies.

Oooo they used a lower case title to be edgy.

Make sure you charge them extra for that.

Muhammad Ali in the ring fighting Oscar Bonavena, Madison Square Garden, December 7, 1970.

"I find myself wondering if the "new era" of marketing is quickly becoming the cluttered noise that it is hoping to rise above."

Stick with the classics and common sense.

Agile design?

It looks good on paper but I've had problems trying to work that way.

Joyent "realigns".

Does Third & Grand know about this? Falkner Wine is going to need to update too.

"The Macarena, I'm sorry about that."

Bob Dylan, on his lost songs.

Jungle Cruise Skipper Night.

A comedy show where all the performers are former Disneyland Jungle Cruise skippers.

Meet Bono, a leading investor in Bioware and Pandemic Studios.

Tell me he plays Neverwinter Nights and it's over.

Battlefield: Bad Company.

Suck it Mario.

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