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October 1, 2008

Boats that were missed.

Things you might have heard about but have never read, seen, or heard.

Washington State University is looking for someone to lead their web strategy.

Sounds like a very cool job.

Not just in America.

"One day, Steve Jobs is going to die."

Fantastic lead.

October 2, 2008

The Nintendo DSi.

Yeah, I'm going to need one of these babies.

October 3, 2008

"Joe Biden was no match for Joe Six-Pack.

This was classic "talk over the heads of the media straight to the people," and it is a long time since I've seen it done so well."

@president Money plz?!

7 minutes ago from Terminatoriffic.

Joe Dirt found in Australia.

The police should force him to watch V one thousand times non-stop.

October 4, 2008

"It would be arrogant to believe that even the strongest of Internet media companies can simply shrug off the coming decline in consumer spending."

— Nick Denton

The new Amazon Kindle.

Needs interaction. Reading without the ability to share or link seems weird to me.

Next version of Windows will be "Fluffier".

No word on how many unicorns and rainbows will be included with each copy.

October 5, 2008

Nice try.

Shepard Fairey defends the Hope poster.

Fifty things every comic collection needs.

Tim, you're right, this is going to cost a lot of money.

October 6, 2008

Round Pound in Baxter State Park, Maine.

I'm going to stare at this all day long and maybe into tomorrow.

Got Milk?

Who is Ian Adelman?

Only one of the best online designers, ever.

October 7, 2008

We need to forgive Sarah Palin.

She knows not what she does.

Ten years.

I miss the mullet years.

October 9, 2008

Newsweek likes Change.

We like it too, some of our best work.

The Sidewalk to Nowhere.

Wow.

Urban golf.

Stu lets go try this.

October 10, 2008

Hands on with the new Xbox Live.

Hard to tell how cool it is based off screenshots.

Visualizing political bias with Greasemonkey.

Waxy is the Bill Nye of the Internet.

Bread lines 1932 vs. 2008.

Is it too late to start Airbag Savings & Loan?

October 12, 2008

Add-Art replaces online advertising with art.

Now we just need bigger ads to be replaced by bigger artwork.

McCain is popular in Macedonia and Georgia.

Forget Iowa, he should head to Slovokia and try to pick up some votes.

Bradley.

A very touching story. One that hits too close to home. Probably for most of us.

"ust take a horizontal photo featuring two relatively texture-free color fields."

Rothkography, the contest.

October 13, 2008

Data Flow: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design.

For Nix...more bathroom reading material.

Appleinsider spoils tomorrow's surprises.

Not sure I dig the two-tone look.

October 14, 2008

The Dark Knight.

Why do we have to wait so long?! Why?!

October 15, 2008

Clorox needs a web designer.

Go clean house.

Put down the pica pole.

I think he means put down the Subtraction Bong.

Vote Plumber Sixpack.

They've got my vote.

October 16, 2008

"And so it is that George W. Bush now looks like he will beat McCain twice."

Oh Shrub, we'll never be rid of you will we?

Commands.

Command-Return the buy button.

Java Johnny.

October 17, 2008

Wilson got dressed for Halloween a bit early.

But that's one hell of a Joseph Müller-Brockmann costume he's sporting.

Call of Duty "Five" is looking pretty good.

Don't know who thought of the dogs but it's brilliant.

Tom, forget Ann Coulter you need to follow this guy.

FiveThirtyEight is about as unbiased as it gets.

The economic crisis could be the end of green...

but green may be how we end this financial crisis."

What we're building with Expression Engine.

Should be called: What don't we build with Expression Engine?

October 22, 2008

Slicehost has been acquired by Rackspace.

This is good news?!

Pixish is closing.

Derek outlines mistakes made a long the way. Take notes.

Ryan submits a better ballot design.

I'd hate to imagine what the Vista version would look like.

Field.

October 23, 2008

'cuda.

For Stu.

"Muslims are our enemies" and "I believe war is a fact of life and we should always win."

Thanks lady. A holy war is exactly what we all need right now.

The best practice for using punctuation within an anchor tag.

Answer 'D'.

+/-.

It's the band you should be listening to right now.

ALA readers on working from home.

I would think that "Wear clean pants. Daily." would be a good idea but I didn't see that listed.

Did you know that there are move slaves today than ever before in human history?

Brad has an idea on how to help raise awareness.

Famous people who have been homeless at some point in their life.

I thought David Letterman was still homeless.

Veer has a brand spanking new jobs board.

Take a look at the link at the bottom. Nice.

The Professional.

Hulu, you're so good. Like doughnuts good.

Scott McClellan has endorsed Obama.

Is this sincere or a way to get back on Amazon's best seller list?

October 24, 2008

Penguin Pencils.

Or if you prefer, Penguin Modern Pencils.

Bicycles, GPS, and Flickr combine!

Check out the results from a recent ride around New York.

Pepsi gets all Obama.

There's a lot of Hope for Change in that rebranding.

Facebook is in the living room.

"A consumer poll done in the second quarter found that 75% of Internet users participate in some form of social media, up from 56% in 2007."

Photos of Jet Blue's Terminal Five.

Take ten minutes and pour over the complete catalog.

Mr. Warren on the challenges of coding the new Housing Works website.

Now if we could get Mr. Mall to write about the design challenges that would be super duper.

McCain or McClane?

Good has the best content on the planet right now.

MT turns seven.

I've been using 3.x for years. It's like a pickup truck that keeps on keeping on.

What was the line about lipstick on a pig?!

Whatever it is, apparently it costs $11,400 a week.

October 25, 2008

The Defective Yeti Halloween Gaming Guide.

"...no time of year is better suited for board gaming than Halloween."

Pixar's movies in order according to their Metacritic score.

WALL-E should be in the number two spot with a score of 93.

"Arrgh."

Just for you Hefter.

"Does anyone else get extreme pleasure from twirling a Q-tip in their ear?"

Better question: Who doesn't? Throw rocks at them.

"Does anyone else get extreme pleasure from twirling a Q-tip in their ear?"

Better question: Who doesn't? Throw rocks at them.

October 26, 2008

Boarded Up.

October 27, 2008

Paul Smith, fashion designer and design thief.

Will be interesting to see how Paul responds.

Television drama.

Law and Order can suck it.

Senator Ted Stevens, felon.

This is turning out to be quite the news day for me.

October 28, 2008

"Isn'€™t there something fundamentally wrong with the notion of attracting€™ the players of a family [game]—towards religion?"

Not if you don't care about sales.

Buttons! Buttons! Buttons!

Must read for any designer.

Throwing a party on your Xbox.

Sounds like a girl thing.

J. Hampton Apothecary.

Screw your five-bladed monster.

Fringe: The Formula.

They need aliens. Lots of aliens.

The subprime mortgage crisis Xplane'd.

I love Xplane. They can do no wrong.

Relative readability.

In which I ask a "good" question and Wilson replies in kind.

Counterproductive airport signage

Airports in general are counterproductive.

A Democrat's review of Sara Palin.

"What is often called her "confidence" is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is."

Chicago Tribune redesign.

Drew, we'll be going over this when you get into the office.

Joshua asks if designers are marketers.

Designers are just designers until they start using numbers and strategy as part of their duties.

Booty Juggler Pirate Game.

Say that ten times in a row.

New Snow Patrol is on sale.

Insert a 'your mom' iTunes joke here.

02138 Magazine folds.

Goodbye dirtbags.

Ink blots David Gibbons made as a study for Rorschach's mask.

Crafty.

"There's an opportunity to bring humanity back, both in terms of the design but also in the way we engage consumers."

And somehow the new Pepsi logo does that. Huh.

October 29, 2008

Jack Thompson is no longer a lawyer.

Justice severed.

Mad Men: Simpsons style.

via Coudal.

iTrail.

Must have iPhone app for hikers.

October 30, 2008

Game over.

Red 5 moves beyond the Golden Ticket and into greatness.

TED is looking for a senior web developer.

Dream job!

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