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Happy New Year by Electrabel

Okay, I thought the AKQA holiday video was cool, but this one is just amazing.

30 December 2008 | 10:57 pm

Design by Committee taken to a whole new level

Stories like this remind me why I don't do design work any more.

24 December 2008 | 3:40 pm

HTML-Ipsum

I've used lipsum.com for years, but this makes so much sense, I'm really shocked it's new.

15 December 2008 | 9:42 am

I never really realized rain could come down from a discrete...

I never really realized rain could come down from a discrete cloud like this.

7 December 2008 | 10:21 am

Magic/Replace - Data Cleanup for Everyone from Dabble DB

Really impressive stuff. Be sure to watch the video.

1 December 2008 | 12:41 pm

"Unlike the 1930s, when food and clothing were far more expensive, today we spend much of our money..."

“Unlike the 1930s, when food and clothing were far more expensive, today we spend much of our money on healthcare, child care, and education, and we’d see uncomfortable changes in those parts of our lives. The lines wouldn’t be outside soup kitchens but at emergency rooms, and rather than itinerant farmers we could see waves of laid-off office workers leaving homes to foreclosure and heading for areas of the country where there’s more work - or just a relative with a free room over the garage. Already hollowed-out manufacturing cities could be all but deserted, and suburban neighborhoods left checkerboarded, with abandoned houses next to overcrowded ones.”

- Depression 2009: What would it look like?

18 November 2008 | 1:31 pm

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Note that you can add "source:life" to any Google image search to focus on this archive.

18 November 2008 | 12:54 pm

This. Fucking. Election.

I'm so glad it's finally over.

5 November 2008 | 7:58 pm

Standing In Line

Interesting Ask MeFi thread about queuing norms in different countries. I don't recall anything specific about what it was like in Greece, so I guess it was similar to the US.

26 October 2008 | 1:23 pm

Keen to produce imagery that didn’t fall into the traditional...

Keen to produce imagery that didn’t fall into the traditional genres of photography, this project’s central focus is the parroquet, a type of small, slender, long-tailed parrot.

14 October 2008 | 6:45 pm

"If, by the time you’re old enough to sit through a movie, you haven’t heard that smoking..."

“If, by the time you’re old enough to sit through a movie, you haven’t heard that smoking is bad for you, you don’t need a movie rating, you need a foster home.”

- Roger Ebert

11 October 2008 | 1:32 pm

WTFPL - Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License

From the FAQ: "There is no such thing as “putting a work in the public domain”, you America-centered, Commonwealth-biased individual."

18 September 2008 | 1:32 pm

"If the work that really matters to you involves understanding a relationship between a handful of..."

“If the work that really matters to you involves understanding a relationship between a handful of seemingly unrelated things and then figuring out the best way to portray, magnify, or resolve those relationships, then you’re already doing creative work.”

- Merlin Mann

18 September 2008 | 1:10 pm

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Added to the top of my daily feeds.

18 September 2008 | 12:59 pm

Recipe: Salmon Cakes

I can never remember how much bread crumb & egg to add. This one worked out well, but I substituted pepper jack cheese for the cheddar and added maybe a tablespoon of grated parmesan. Don't tell Sophia about the black pepper - she'll claim to hate the recipe.

15 September 2008 | 7:18 pm

Bizarre music video of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck played with a...

Bizarre music video of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck played with a glockenspiel & some stuff you’d find around the house, like kitchen utensils and beer cans.