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January 1, 2009

"Belief in the mission matters (a lot!), but it doesn't replace skill."

Agreed.

Vox Stimuli.

BusinessWeek's blog on Obama's upcoming New Deal '09.

January 2, 2009

JPG Magazine is dead, long live JPG Magazine!

Hang in there Mrs. Miner.

'Flying while Muslim' is the new 'Driving while black.'

You stay racist Washington.

January 3, 2009

The State of Alaska turns fifty.

Older than Hawaii by eight months.

Without a doubt, this is the dumbest laptop I've ever seen.

Who buys this crap?

Fascination burnout.

Sounds like ADD to me.

Pingmag is on an "extended hiatus."

I hope that's not just a Japanese way of saying goodbye.

Say no to 72dpi.

A valuable resource.

Snuggie vs. Slanket.

Our project manager would take a bullet for her Slanket.

January 4, 2009

Online greeting etiquette.

It also helps to use the right name, which, yes, maybe some of us have gotten wrong in the past but we learned from that mistake and moved on.

Israeli consulate holds a press conference for teenage girls.

"We hav 2 prtct R ctzens 2, only way fwd through neogtiations, & left Gaza in 05. y Hamas launch missiles not peace?" Asshats.

January 5, 2009

Regarding the Personal Web.

Must read.

Dear Wall Street, "Suck. It."

Steve, you're too kind to those bastards. Get well soon.

CERN experiments will generate "a petabyte per month."

"There just isn't enough disk space in the world to record all of it."

The 395.

"In 2008, I had eight job interviews and eight rejections, making me the Michael Phelps of Failure."

Not in my book, not when you can write like that.

The English language is "dum."

Surprisingly not related to President Bush in any way.

Crystal Cathedral wants $34M for their office building.

I used to work in that building and I know for a fact it's only really worth $32.4M.

A story of Electric Pulp's experience during the previous economic downturn.

Keith, check out the bit regarding billing.

January 6, 2009

With no fear of the unknown, Jason takes a bow from Happy Cog.

Roger Black to replace him as Zeldman's sidekick.

Watch the battery video.

No, really. Watch the battery video.

"Working on the design with [Airbag] was a treat, as we've been a fan of the interactive work they do, as well as their insights on design and development, for quite some time."

A great day just got a whole lot better.

January 7, 2009

A New Virb is coming, with Awesomization™.

I got to see the work in progress a few months ago. Facebook is about to look very ghetto.

Watch Walmart invade the US.

Where Walmart equals cheap Chinese imports.

January 9, 2009

End the agony of small type in Mail.

Helpful and easy on the eyes.

Alight.

The Holy Grail for typography.

The Vignelli Canon, now available for free on AisleOne.

One more reason why I ought to consider buying a D90.

Ryan's been pushing me to get one and now this...Hmmm.

Hiring trends for 2009.

Good insight.

January 13, 2009

Why do people have to improve stuff all the time?

Great question.

The water systems of Manhattan.

Sadly, no data on the colossal sewer 'gators of Manhattan.

January 14, 2009

On the remake of The Prisoner.

It's about damn time.

Nortel Networks files for bankruptcy.

Doesn't seem possible.

Kahn is dead.

Kaaahhhhnnn!

January 15, 2009

Jeff has a few photos of the setup for the Inauguration.

This one's pretty crappy.

Getting a jump on HTML 5.

Cameron made a list of resources, go check it out.

Estimate for bad clients.

A worksheet we can all use.

January 17, 2009

Shepard Fairey's "Hope" is now hanging in the National Portrait Gallery.

Not bad for a left-wing vandal.

January 18, 2009

Nice interview with Ron Moore on "Sometimes a Great Notion."

For Ged.

Kazakhstan hates Kayne West.

Love live Kazakhstan!

"Frak."

"...it's not some obvious fake euphemism."

"Every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones."

Saved for later. Thanks Khoi.

Obama's People.

Five success secrets from high pressure world of financial sales

by Bernard L. Madoff.

January 19, 2009

Hours after the 9/11 attacks that an Alaska congressman speculated they may have been committed by "eco-terrorists": 9.

Read the rest of the list and prepare to face-palm.

Citizens, first! Tourists, second!

Draplin Design goes to Washington.

"What the country has seen of his leadership style so far evokes the discipline of George W. Bush and the curiosity of Bill Clinton."

Win, win.

January 20, 2009

A simple act of faith.

Buy ten shares of common stock in an American company today.

Elevate web design at the university level.

Six years in the making. Further reading is available on Leslie's site Teach the Web.

The Competition Bicycle: A Photographic History.

Nix, this is all you baby.

Imperial Palace in Kyoto.

Jays friends.

More endeavors like this will help us get through the down-turn. Do what you can do and move on to help others.

Inauguration.

January 21, 2009

Snow.

For those of us who miss it, once and a while.

The Armstead Snow Motors Company concept snow vehicle.

Ethan, you should get one of these.

January 22, 2009

"Like a modern-day M*A*S*H..."

Stop. Stop right there. Go back and try again.

January 25, 2009

"Obama's plan will make it worse. We got into this by borrowing and stimulating, now he wants to borrow and stimulate more."

To make things worse we don't even have the option of moving to Iceland this time around.

MAD magazine goes quarterly.

They cite readers feedback as the reason. I think they're making a play for Lapham's market share.

High end restaurants are either closing or making deals.

I saw evidence of the lower prices on Friday night. At the time I thought I was seeing things.

Apparently New Jersey isn't all gangsters and garbage.

An infographic.

Buy oil.

And make it ExxonMobil, it's got moxie!

Pirating the 2009 Oscars.

An annual Waxy tradition.

Obama writes a memo and revives the Freedom of Information Act.

I wrote a memo once but it only made me sleepy.

The Star Wars Talk Show.

R2-Potty Mouth!

Animal Collective.

A great way to take a break from everything.

I'm going to guess that Mike Tyson won't be returning to the ring any time soon.

Unless it's a ring of dough dipped in chocolate.

Save hangar one.

Show your support.

January 26, 2009

Purple and green?

Apparently someone had She Hulk on the brain.

The FWA is for sale.

Is this really a great time to sell?

Adobe users finally have someone to champion their cause.

15-Love. Serve to you Mr. Narayen.

The West Wing.

Brilliant.

January 27, 2009

"We can't plan these mistakes, but wish we could."

I don't know about that, Dan. Have you ever licked the back of a toad and then used Photoshop?

China now ranks as the largest Internet population in the world.

Somehow I don't see anyone topping that achievement any time soon.

Omnigraffle stencils, g-ood

They allow you to wireframe like the wind.

Japan's GDP is sinking rapidly.

They need to Wonder-Twin-Power with Iceland and form a new country and a bucket of ice.

Cameron seeks the wisdom of crowds.

Focus on the upper right, that's the most important area on this homepage.

iPhone games we should all own.

For now that is, the iPhone game landscape changes almost daily.

January 28, 2009

Happy Cog Philadelphia needs some help moving pixels around.

Bonus skill: Ability to pick up and drop off Hoy's laundry at the cleaners.

Britain from Above.

I would love to see this in HD.

The $300M dollar button.

Must read. Must bookmark.

Delivery days for US Mail may be reduced.

Works for me.

January 29, 2009

Somatic Rebirth.

One of the coolest icon replacement systems I've seen in a while.

January 30, 2009

Blagojevich's final day in office.

A photo slide show.

Six Apart is looking for a designer.

Demand that you get to work with Mena one week a year.

January 31, 2009

"@Brilliantcrank is pretty much the Statler and Waldorf of the web world."

It was a better fit than Laverne and Shirley, but I tried.

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