2008

May

Things younger than John McCain

cubicle17: The basic idea of this site is that a brand...

Young Me Now Me!

“If you make something idiot-proof, they’ll make a better...”
— Techdirt (via doqrs)

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original,...”
— Howard Aiken (via onherway,...

“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate...”
— Denis Waitley (via onherway)OK...

Empathy

dailymeh: So, I see that Simon Baron-Cohen’s empathy test is making the rounds on Tumblr. That...

Murakami Haruki B-Sides

Beautiful: Charles Harper (via Glen Mullaly)

fakestef via Joe Dunckley

Paint That Shit Gold | Tag The Web

50 Ways to Help the Planet

hrrrthrrr via patrickmoberg)

hrrrthrrr: This is so cool…seriously cool. I wonder how many times it took to get some of those...

Via theministryoftruth: An excellent Flickr set of...

worldmap of iphone availability: you cannot make it out well...

topherchris: Negativland — Favorite Things

Adding insult to injury I added another design to the DM...

slantback via kiyo: “‘The Form of Facts and Figures,’...

travors: Sometimes, every day feels like...

The design I made for the DM boots design competition (Hands...

“There’s the blank page, and the thing that obsesses you....”
— Margaret Atwood (via...

I posted the Doctor Martens design competition earlier; This...

The guy that made the inside-out teddy bears also makes...

slantback: Instead of building the usual wank agency...

Don’t feed the chairs. thomas keeley

Never grow up is a silver and gold plated candy necklace by...

I love these modified dollars by ATYPYK

Banksy - The Cans Festival. - a set on...

hydeordie: this was made for me! Nice scenario-driven...

stumblng: the above image from here is of a 39-foot tall...

“[M]y reaction to clever ads: as soon as I see one, a filmy...”
— Textism (via...

saar: Quote from Dan Gilbert’s book Stumbling upon...

“The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime...”
— F. Scott. F., the first line...

OK, couple of reblogs coming up, because some great stuff has arived in succession in my...

A flag for Earth, designed by James Cadle in 1969. Via Space...

stumblng: clever. via this Yes, very nice, but I cannot help but think an even better music/ movie...

topherchris: The three superstates and disputed...

zehnuhr: tourists taking pictures part IV — Sony Center...

Create your own clock: just stick anything in this base/...

“The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone...”
— Walter Winchell (via...

Apr

aaronwhite: livejamie: This is very funny video from the 50s that illustrates the influence that...

World Statistics Updated in Real Time

Free Hi Resolution Wood Textures | BittBox; Better than...

Continuing my posting of uncomfortable political cartoons of...

This red square shows the area of current technology solar...

Ouch! 2008 olympics Via drawnfreak – focsa

Three Words That Could Overthrow Physics:...

shadowfirebird: The Uno | Motocycle Mojo I feel an...

A fantastic goth punk album cover right there: The Daily...

“Careful. We don’t want to learn from this”
— Bill Watterson (via travors)

Mass Attack FAQ

Did eaten bird claw through hawk? -...

Cover designs for Dante’s Inferno trilogy. I LOVE...

Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web...

Every website should have a /fast

Don’t like this either? Try this. Thanks John. I’m about to redesign my own website and...

dihard: Check out NASA’s Earth As Art, a collection of...

Love it: my Tumblr dashboard on a Friday night is better than television!

somethingchanged: An anti-poverty group has an innovative...

roboticrevolt: The world’s fastest industrial robot: By fastest, it means 10g of acceleration:...

So many very good business card designs in this post. This...

Argh! My eyes! Dilbert turned to colour and the site to 2.0!...

bauldoff: This is the 1980 promotional publication by...

The Lollipop Shoppe » Wooden Monkey

Another classic from garfieldminusgarfield.

Reblogged from a bunch of people incl. livejamie: Einstein...

dailymeh: Street Art in Lower East Side, from nickgraywfu, ...

English, base knave, dost thou speak it?

“The cultural meme of people being afraid that computers...”
— the Daily Irrelevant: Ballmer...

Justin Ouellette: i settled on a little response format that i like
Peter Baker: a high five?
Justin Ouellette: <sup>5</sup>

“Now now, my good man. This is no time to be making enemies.”
— Voltaire on his death bed...

No div, no float, no clear, no hack*, no...

Oh no! I’m reminded of this. Sky-High Ads Float Like...

I do a lot of textpattern sites and this looks very smooth,...

simko: The floor of the lobby at the MoMA is currently...

“If you’ve never seen an elephant ski, you’ve never been on...”
— Eddie Izzard (via simko)

2m42s.muxtape.com

In Basecamp when you type [UPDATE] it’s replaced with a nice little graphic (). I would like...

Via Hyde. Both in design and pricepoint this house is a...

(not) printing flash

How can I not have realized that flash in a webpage is not printed when you print the page; it just...

toldorknown: The Daily Batman (via Drawn!) Awesome

stumblng: from here via this comes the body-laptop...

“What other people think of you is none of your business.”
— helpmehelpyou: My mom (via...

toldorknown: Dear twitter-follow-spammer: What’s the business model? I’m already annoying, so if...

ryanadams: “5th” I hope this one is finished like this....

“If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or...”
— Hunter S. Thompson (via...

devers: very good points, I will share this with the...

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to...”
— Voltaire (via livejamie)

The Mediawork Pamphlet Series is a series of books on new...

stumblng: ok, it’s an advert, but it’s a pretty unusual one; it includes: … film [of] the...

404 - Cannot find Weapons of Mass...

“To hold a pen is to be at war.”
— Voltaire (via livejamie)

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss (via vinh) (via...

Second Cheapest Syndrome

dihard: Ever order the second cheapest wine on the menu while dining out? Well, one in four diners...

(via ryanadams)

ohcarlos: Damien Hirst has finally jumped the shark...

“I don’t exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he...”
— Joan Rivers (via simko; oh...

livejamie: Seekway” is looking to replace the disco ball, lava lamp and plasma orb with one simple...

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design...”
— Douglas Adams (via simko)

ratherfancy via zachklein

Hilarious. via zehnuhr

Indeed. via anthonydever via aja

“Ice cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn’t illegal.”
— Voltaire (via livejamie)

Hoefler & Frere-Jones designed a OCR-A font with...

Haha: The evening also spawned a new blogging endeavor,...

via csr via www.moneymayne.com

Drunken physics.

hydeordie: For the first three years of college I was a physics major. this story is when everyone...

“CAN’T BLOG TODAY, Foggy,…….I’M TRAPPED UNDER ICE.”
— …..vrooom vroom klangedy klang...

stephanieho: DJ Qbert shredding some vinyl. And here’s one with him scratching without using the...

“I don’t see things as good or evil, I just see them as witty...”
— Sebastian Horsley (via simko)...

“Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs...”
— Resume, Dorothy Parker. I so...

“if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve...”
— Tony Robbins (via hydeordie)

I love how the fontstuctor fonts really offset the...

septiblog: ‘Mickey-Chávez’

I finally installed these little bucket icons for the drawer...

lonelysandwich: Your Glottis and You...

On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful...

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
— Confucius (via mascarah via...

bauldoff: FontStruct (by FontShop) lets you quickly and...

Absolutely gorgeous new UK coins: www.royalmint.comvia...

via ryanadams I love the cord; very rock & roll!

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ...”
— Emo Phillips (via hrrrthrrr)

Medal of Honor Brooch - Black Poketo! Medal of Honor Brooch...

From a certain social news site.

ericb: When I started a small social site, the first thing I did was create 40 nicknames and start talking to myself. Boot-strapping a social site is tough. Most users leave if they see an empty site.
euccastro: I have an uncle that tried that when he opened a pub. It didn't quite work.

See exhibit A: old logo vs. the new logo of Engadget Mobile:...

rach: And if you haven’t ever visited Plan59, the online...

“All these problems, and for what? So that you can claim to...”
— Quite a few people have jumped...

9 of the best Rich Text editors reviewed

I would like to see that (but as a replacement would also...

theministryoftruth: dkoder: tetris in your living...

Brandjunkies on the Influence of Brands: The...

Mar

“Hi, I’m Andre and I’m addicted to tumblr.”
— Reblog if addicted. (Replace...

“…And lots of drunk very rich people. Oh rich people, you...”
— Ryan Adams (via triciaward via...

This CGI woman looks at your mouse. Been done before, but...

“…And lots of drunk very rich people. Oh rich people, you...”
— Ryan Adams (via triciaward /...

Asaph Microblog

Halsman Philippe - In Volupate mors (Salvador...