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December 1, 2008

We're giving away a scholarship to Train-ee ExpressionEngine Training.

I wanted to hold a knife fight contest but Leslie said the lawyers wouldn't go for it. Figures.

Mark Boulton, one of the smartest web designers around, has written a book.

Available for twelve Monopoly dollars sometime next February.

Pownce is dead. Long live Pownce!

So when is Facebook going to buy Twitter?

Wil Wheaton gets asked to perform on Heroes via Twitter.

"For serious."

December 2, 2008

"Global Kids seeks to...redesign its current Ning social network."

I don't think I've ever seen a job posting specifically for a Ning group.

The road to Hollywood is paved in Creative Commons, er something like that.

Jeremy, are you signing movie posters in Austin this year?

How DeBeers digs for diamonds.

Nix, try to keep your pants on when you see the infographic.

Planes on Fire.

My favorite TMN gallery to date.

Educating the client on information architecture.

Must read.

Thumbgrid. It just sounds cool.

I'm waiting for Viewmaster.

Moon, Venus, and Jupiter.

If you haven't been doing so recently, go look at the the southern sky at dusk.

December 3, 2008

Thankful kitty.

All quiet for the day.

Letters & Ligatures.

Photos and a report of a recent road trip.

What I've Learned.

Sage advice.

December 4, 2008

The U.A.W. is a day late and Billions short.

Concessions should have been made in the mid-90's.

The Green Bible.

Words of Jesus are biodegradable.

Nick Harcourt has left Morning Becomes Eclectic.

I totally missed this story.

Ten years of the International Space Station.

Splendid.

Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts.

Must read.

Tina Fey's pinball past.

I miss pinball.

All the glory that is Windhammer.

"When my name finally rang out, I realized why my preparation had been so casual: I wouldn't be the one performing."

Bush no longer feels compelled to be a cowboy out in the sticks.

Somehow I don't think Crawford is going to mind.

December 5, 2008

Honda is leaving F1.

The future of the entire series is in question. Lame.

A round table discussion on how we can make the Iraq War more accessible.

I didn't know we were fighting lava monsters over there. Intriguing.

December 6, 2008

38 oz. Prime Rib.

Hoy, I think you and I ought to meet Narayan and go eat at this magical place.

December 8, 2008

Resist Today has new products available for Christmas.

New prints are just around the corner.

Kayaks.

"He was right."

Frontline's follow-up on retired four-star general Eric Shinseki's nomination to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.

December 9, 2008

The history of Mozilla as told through t-shirts.

Surely there are more than fifty-three!

Anil and his night at the museum.

"The continental breakfast served in the morning was serviceable, but our room didn't even have a television!" Brilliant.

December 10, 2008

Batman: Black & White.

DC's second entry in the "motion comics" format.

Ass[h]at Passat.

"The most accurate account of the bomb's inner workings—an unnervingly detailed reconstruction, based on old photographs and documents—has been written by a sixty-one-year-old truck driver from Waukesha, Wisconsin."

People and their crazy hobbies.

NPR's best graphic novels of 2008.

Looks like a trip to Matt's place might have to occur this week.

How a real man plays Bike Hero on Expert.

Read more.

"On occasion, prosecutors asked us to delay publication of stories, asserting that disclosure would jeopardize the criminal investigation."

— Chicago Tribune

"What's in your Moleskine" contest winners.

Shame that Chronicle posts most of the content on their Facebook group. Lame.

The fantastic work of Eduardo Recife.

Work this this improves quality of life.

Hey Kayne, do you think Bush will use this browser?

Still not sure about the A-Team motif.

Many of the newest solar panels are manufactured with a gas that is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming.

Fantastic!

Nazi Zombies.

2510 zombies died that night. Nice work guys.

December 15, 2008

Despite what headlines would have you think, Illinois is the seventh most corrupt state in the union.

Bad Florida. Bad!

New York Court.

How to make a Star Wars advent calendar.

Hel, please see to it that I have one of these on my desk tomorrow morning.

The Speak Up holiday wish list.

One of each please.

"...where we answer all of your questions and allow others to capitalize on what we've learned as we've grown from $0 in 1999 to around $1B in gross merchandise sales in 2008."

Snake Oil 2.0?

West Side Story, remade.

"The gangs still sing and dance their hatreds and frustrations on the raw pavements of New York. But Laurents has re-thought every character he created."

Handling extreme traffic with ExpressionEngine.

Something every EE admin should have at their ready.

HD trailer for the new Wolverine movie.

I bet this does better than the X-Men franchise.

December 16, 2008

Photos from a letter press check.

"Despite the economic slowdown, there are lots of developers getting hired. Twice as many, in fact, as sales and marketing people."

Fried, Moll, does your data support this news?

Penguin Sets.

Fabulous!

Me thinks Duncan Quinn has watched a little too much Madmen.

Wife beating is a little out of vogue these days.

Land of the Free.

What's the word for non-anime cosplay? Thanks Rubin.

London Shop Fronts.

Ministry of Type has studied the kosher labels being used throughout the collection.

Congratulations EE training scholarship recipients.

I'm looking forward to reading how the training went.

Phil Schiller will replace Steve Jobs at MacWorld.

Wired questions his health. I question his interest in MacWorld.

Blue Flavor just woke up from their Django nap.

In other news, Airbag has recently been accepted into the SBC White Pages.

Jimmy Fallon documents his take over of Late Night.

Anxious to see segments on the set design.

MacGruber: Financial Ruin.

Hilarity.

Pizza Hut hates small business.

Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!

Garret notes components bundled with Adobe Photoshop CD4.

"Optional items you don't need to install."

Newsweek, not sure how you could miss World of Warcraft.

Seems that this "best of" list is sorely lacking.

December 17, 2008

Greg Storey would love a case of the pinot from Black Estate.

He would love even more to go to there in person and pick it up.

Curbed goes to Moscow.

"The powers that be couldn't build this as a transit hub in downtown Manhattan, so they built it as a Mercedes dealership in Moscow. Makes sense."

Intro to Vinyl, a 2000 documentary on people with obsessive collections of the same name.

I looked for the full-length movie and could not find it anywheres.

Our Dumb World, Google Maps Edition.

An Atlas of Truth, Geography, and Random Points of Non Interest.

The Economist explains why wars happen.

And present their findings through a bad infographic.

Barrack Obama is Time magazine's Person of the Year.

Lets hope they will able to repeat this four more times, maybe eight.

347.

"The multi phone pouch keeps it all in check, phone/ipod, cash, credit and business cards."

I must have one of these.

Fleet Foxes perform in an abandoned wing of the Grand Palais.

Wonderful!

What Lies Beneath the Surface.

Boston (circa 1997).

December 18, 2008

Goodbye Mrs. Roddenberry.

Rest in peace.

December 19, 2008

Dan, that's not a site map.

It's one of those new fangled web 2.0 tag clouds.

December 20, 2008

"It's Raphael or bust."

On Italy and it's management of art.

December 22, 2008

Quite possibly the worst use of Helvetica ever.

Just goes to show what a tramp typeface it has turned into.

"Returns from Fake Amazon aren't handled by Amazon."

Beware the wolf in Bezos clothing.

Blogs are keeping Los Angeles Times afloat.

Just keep the citizen journalist out of my newspaper and we'll be good.

The Pixar Story.

Must see TV.

December 23, 2008

The Long Tail: 1923.

"Before you decide anything in the morning about what you're going to wear, consider density of pattern."

Not for those who wear bowling shirts adorned with an embroidered dragon.

Obama will be sworn in using a used Bible.

Hopefully some of the previous owners wisdom will be absorbed.

December 26, 2008

War on Terror close to costing $1T.

China must be laughing all the way to the bank.

"If we're so smart, why are other people living so much better than us?"

We're not smart, we're entitled!

December 27, 2008

"A new Pew study showing that the Internet has surpassed newspapers as Americans' main source for national and international news."

Television, you're next.

December 29, 2008

After Hours One.

Now Panic and Freak Out.

Timely.

December 31, 2008

"I expect, 2009 will be a year to forget."

Happy New Year everybody.

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