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Black Swan

admin — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:45:11 -0700

Black Swan BF™ from Bomparte's Fonts

Merlin Mann Takes a Stand

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:44:53 -0700

Merlin Mann, the cool uncle of the Interwebs, encourages himself and others to rise above the trite remarks, easy jokes, and poorly conceived and executed "user-generated" content permeating our culture, in order to create something better:

What worries me are the consequences of a diet comprised mostly of fake-connectedness, makebelieve insight, and unedited first drafts of everything. I think it’s making us small. I know that whenever I become aware of it, I realize how small it can make me. So, I’ve come to despise it.

So, here's to being exceptional.

And if you're unfamiliar with Merlin, check out 43 Folders, 5ives, or my personal favorite, You Look Nice Today.

The end of American capitalism as we knew it.

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:16:06 -0700

Honestly some of this article is over my head, but this quote really validates how I've been feeling about all this shit:

Is the reality of the modern, transactions-oriented model of financial capitalism indeed that large private firms make enormous private profits when the going is good and get bailed out and taken into temporary public ownership when the going gets bad, with the tax payer taking the risk and the losses?

We don't see any profits, but we all get to share the losses. Yay for us! I hate what we've become.

Dooce

joeydi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:14:17 -0700

Heather Armstrong gets all political:

I get the feeling that people around the world are looking at this election as a gauge to see if America is finally ready to wake up and realize that we are not the only country on this planet. They are waiting to see if we are going to put yet another fundamentalist loon in charge of public and foreign policy, someone who doesn't think that global warming is in any way caused by humans, so screw the rest of you who live here on this planet, we need that cup of oil with breakfast in the morning.

People, go read this blog.

Kim Høltermand

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:58:10 -0700

Gorgeous architecture photography.

Studio KXX

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:11:56 -0700

Nice design and illustration over at Studio KXX. I really dig the horizontal navigation, but I wish there was a big link at the end to send you back to the menu. Oh well.

FOX News: A Classy Bunch

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:19:35 -0700

Baby Mama:

[noun] an unmarried mother who is not in a relationship with her child's father

See more here.

Lightmark

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:15:50 -0700

Incredible "light paintings". If you have ever seen the Sprint commercials with animations created using flashlights, then you get the concept. These photographs, by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke, however, are far more striking. The landscapes are beautiful; I particularly like the shots in Norway, where you can see the Aurora Borealis.

Cast Iron Ampersand

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:56:03 -0700

Do I need one of these? Hell no.

But it just might be the coolest 20 pounds of iron I have ever seen.

30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:35:18 -0700

Gorgeous satellite photography of our amazing planet.

The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.