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July 2008
24
Yes, please.
Jewel.
Totoro Forest Project
23
Interview with Syd Mead, “visual futurist” on Blade Runner
What’s In It For Doogie Howser?
Have Keynote deck, will travel
22
Beep. Bon Iver / Bowerbirds tickets for sale
Nervo.tv’s lovely Zune reel
Bibliophobic, you say?
17
Beep. Hand over the ring
Beep. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
12
What Is A Searcher Searching For?
11
Beep. Kaa
10
Beep. Politics aside…
09
Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via Transmit
Beep. On the power of failure
07
Twenty 120
03
Dan Cederholm has a fantastic interview with some upstart publication I’m sure you’ve never heard of
Eugeny Parfenov
01
Tippi never looked so good.
Archive of gorgeous old Blue Note album covers
June 2008
30
“Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend”
It all happened here.
29
Beep. Happy Fun Time with the English Language!
28
The John McCain Green Screen Challenge
We’re Google. Our shit is second-rate, but you’re the ones we’ll make fun of.
27
Stephen’s got a brand new bag
Eventbot
22
How to stop iPhone interference in speakers
Breathtaking full-color photos of Mars’ atmosphere
Onomatopoetic, i18n-style.
20
On plagiarism and ironic mustaches.
What is good tequila?
Beep. Mixed bag
18
Welcome
16
“Something to print & read”
13
It’s Software, Not Religion
The Real Story of the Superheroes
12
Greg done wrote a great article.
My friend Catherine’s latest minicomic is out, and it is worth your $2
XTRABOLD™
10
Moving CSS typography forward
McCain Vows To Replace Secret Service With His Own Bare Fists
Pac-Samurai
09
In which Rob is so much cooler than you.
06
Beep. Bring in the noise, bring in the dot matrix printer
“Return to Paradise: The enduring relevance of John Milton”
Looking Back: How Different Groups Voted (Flash)
01
Beep. The Younger Cool
May 2008
31
Shortly after this photo was taken, a bout of jazz-tap fighting broke out.
30
Viva Calaca!
28
Heaven forfend the tool actually act like a president.
27
Dunkin’ Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad
Ryan Irelan done launched some ExpressionEngine screencasts
26
Beep. Oogie boogie, baby. Oogie boogie.
25
Media hype: How small stories become big news
Beep. Advanced Beauty
22
Why ExpressionEngine Should Be Your Next CMS
16
Beep. In which Wilson is brilliant.
Beep. I’m inspired to join.
Behind The Scenes: Bill O’Reilly On Inside Edition
Gay marriage legal in California
The Right Choice?
15
Curtis Jenkins
10
Dude-brahs: Kneel before your new dude-brah overlord.
09
Right next to “DOING IT WRONG for Dummies”
08
Automatically fixing widowed words
Chaitén, erupted.
07
StatAttak
Secret McCain Campaign Slogan Memo Leaked
When the fall is all that’s left
06
Dear Shaun
Stina Persson
Twitter Charts
05
The Really Perfect Ringtone
04
The All-White Elephant in the Room
03
All streets
02
Devil in a bottle
DIABEETUS
01
Boston Web Studio
A fight with invisible knives.
Hivelogic on backups
Untitled
The perfect iPhone Ringtone
April 2008
29
Designing for the Social Web: the Book
Stoav Graphics
28
Capital City Super Squad
A Whole New Relationship
César Moreno
I want you to want me
25
Beep. TWSS?
Brothercake says, “Stop using Ajax!”
Beep. While My Greenpeace Gently Weeps
Massimo Vignelli’s New York subway map
“But seriously, dogg, you’re in card territory.”
23
Bitter Patter
22
Science Machine
19
If ABC moderated the Lincoln-Douglas debates
17
Brad Bird’s eulogy for Ollie Johnston, one of Disney’s “Nine Old Men”
Probably the most even-handed review of last night’s sham debate
16
Insomniac
Designers’ Toolbox: OS Form Elements
The Illuminati
Anton Peck on responsible Photoshop use
Beep. Clever title!
15
Only in frickin’ Boston.
14
This is not the greatest song in the world.
NEWWORK MAGAZINE
On “Bittergate”
10
Jake Gittes can’t tell a decent joke to save his life
08
Renderance
GraphicalHouse
Adaptive Path interviews Cordell Ratzlaff, former design lead on OS X
02
The Web Beyond the Desktop
March 2008
30
Look at the uncanny valley on her.
28
Just not in the mood.
27
John Resig’s talk at Northeastern about Javascript & jQuery
This pretty much epitomizes “DO NOT WANT.”
Screw limited print runs.
26
The Obama Doctrine
Too cool for words.
25
Jordan Domont
Paul Robertson’s “Kings of Power 4 Billion %”
23
The Robot Needs Storage.
19/f/medic
21
Poland’s Heritage: A Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures
20
Yahoo’s latest performance tips
“Hillary’s Nasty Pastorate”
The Evolution of Mugshot Design
”There are precedents.”
The Sad Truth About Relationships
19
The art of TekkonKinkreet
17
Photos from last week’s Markup & Style Society mini-conference
If it’s relevant to you…
Super Real Mario Brother
Questionaut
14
“The Day of a Pyro”
Buck Turgidson Would’ve Been Proud
13
Six-word reviews of 763 SXSW MP3s
12
Nothing to see here.
Dorthy.
Welcome to cloud.
11
compfight
A hung-over Avon lady in Vegas.
On “off the record.”
Presidential candidates, D&D-style
07
From customer service to user-centric design
Laura Brunow Miner is JPG’s New Editor
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
05
The Fear Factory
February 2008
29
Keyboard shortcuts for Google Reader
Nubrella
28
Meep meep.
The Greatest Video In The World.
27
Bad-ass timeline heatmap of presidential election trends
Clouds
HELP COMPUTER
26
The Audacity of Data
25
Markup & Style Make Robot Go Something Something…
“Do not take Annuale if you plan to…become pregnant, as it may turn your baby into a firemonster.”
37signals is one hell of a profitable business
I Drink Your Milkshake!
A few handy Firefox shortcuts
24
The SXSW Diet
Boomshine
WaSP Round Table: IE8’s Default Version Targeting Behavior
22
Han Solo in Carbonite. IN A DESK.
How to type proper quotes, dashes, and whatnot in OS X
timoni.org
21
Frame from the upcoming Watchmen movie
20
Some stunning entries in Veerle’s poster competition
Webstocked
19
MIT’s Patrick Winston on How to Speak
Beep. Jaredigital redesigns.
The University of Chicago
Quack attorney Jack Thompson challenges fake Sam Jackson to actual debate
18
Poolga
No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock
FreakAngels
Wellcome Collection: The Heart
14
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle
Trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie
Lord of the Rains
13
Eric Meyer’s reset CSS has a home
12
Senate Moves to Shield Phone Companies on Eavesdropping
Spongebob Squarepants’ voice actors re-dub some Hollywood classics
11
In other news…
Vanity Fair’s reimaginings of some Hitchcock classics.
Dramatic Lemur
10
In Diesel
09
Wanna-be Harajuku girls
08
I’m so buying eight of these.
07
Other Things There Will Be, in Addition to Blood.
05
The Badass of the Week: Andrew Jackson
MediaDrift
04
The Five Most Pwned Newscasters
This might need to go in the office.
Yes, We Can.
01
kropp
January 2008
31
X-No-Thanks
A reasoned response to X-UA-Compatible
Follow the Oil Money
The Pearce Sisters
SimpleBits’ new skin
Yehrin Tong Illustration
30
Archer
28
Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications
Beep. A Beep Apart
Sam Jackson: Patron of letters (and of your mama).
I may have just snorted.
26
Internet Explorer lays anchor in 1999, sets sail for the future
25
History of Predictive Text Swearing
Dwell’s interview with Chip Kidd
Key to Reserva
24
My most favorited tweets
X-UA-Lemur-Compatible
Oh, just stop talking. Please.
Sound and Fury
What is the sound of one browser failing?
Senator Dodd’s long (but eloquent) speech against FISA legislation
Half-tuck is the new Mullett
23
Ray Smuckles for President.
Hit Me On My iPhone
22
WIWP
David Baron on how version data slows innovation
Code Happy
14
George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language
From whence lulz?
"With friends like these…"
12
Soïa & Kyo
11
Hilarious Twitter-like review of Uwe Boll’s latest cinematic crapfest
10
Messing up the interface
Yoda and Darth Vader in Soul Calibur IV?
09
Dan posts new, droolworthy photos of his new office.
08
Early rap/hip-hop/roller-disco flyers, NYC, 1979-1983
06
Jackson Publick published pics of the new season of Venture Bros.
Death Village
A High Definition Choice
04
Passive resistance, like Gandhi
Evolution of the Power-Up
03
YouTube explains "The Amen Break" to you
Valve’s new Portal shirts are pure sex.
02
Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest
"You Don’t Understand Our Audience": What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC
December 2007
31
Bridget Warren
30
Is It Ethan Marcotte’s Birthday?
Further commentary on the RIAA’s asshattery
RIAA decides personal use is illegal
29
LOGARTIS CLASSICAL
NODACT™
28
Terminus
iKlimt
The New York Times’ slideshow of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination
25
They shoot standardistas, don’t they?
Henry Sene Yee Design
Adam Greenfield weighs in on Monocle
23
Getting Better
Neil Summerour’s latest typeface, Epic
Wii hacking with Johnny Chung Lee
Peter Sellers riffing on Laurence Olivier’s Richard III, using the lyrics from A Hard Day’s Night
I waterboard!
20
New teaser trailer for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Animator vs. Animation
18
Okay, that’s it. It’s officially time to turn off the internet.
BusinessWeek on Target
Beep. Adhemas Batista
17
On second (and subsequent) posts.
Week 12 of “Layer” Tennis
New trailer for The Dark Knight
14
Jingle++;
13
Import del.icio.us bookmarks to Yojimbo
12
Opera78
Nixie Clock
11
Zaky Infant Pillow
10
Safari AdBlock
07
Set photos from Twin Peaks
Lifehacker interviews Quicksilver’s Creator
06
Object-Oriented Event Listening through Partial Application in JavaScript
Airbag embiggens.
04
Metrokitty does Tokyo
On Experts and Expertise
EFF study confirms Comcast’s BitTorrent interference
Christopher Schmitt interviews yours truly
01
Greg and Ethan, l. to r.
November 2007
30
Wonderfully outraged editorial on the Golden Compass boycott
The Rissington Podcast has redesigned.
Beep. I heart TextMate a little more.
Russ has a blog.
28
Awesome list of OS X menubar items
Email Standards Project
27
ZIP viewer: A Quick Look plug-in
Back lot photos from Zack Snyder’s upcoming Watchmen
26
Three Legged Legs
Flickr photoset of vintage photo badges
25
Invoking Leopard’s Quick Look from the command line
Booq’s Mamba Sling
22
Pixelsurgeon is Dead.
21
DrawerGeeks’ take on the Sith
Promotional posters for FOX’s upcoming “Sarah Connor Chronicles”
A compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches
19
Permalinks for comments in Basecamp
16
Light Graffiti
RFP, R.I.P.
14
Storm Trooper Dancing in Shibuya
Do Canonical Web Designs Exist?
Lokesh Dhakar
Kemp Muhl
Darths & Droids
13
Jet Lag’s a Bitch
Disabling Spotlight in Leopard
Anton Peck’s iPhone/iTouch Backgrounds
Delusion
More Width
12
Karpa: The work of David Carvalho
CrisVector
07
Super Mario Bros. Tesla Coil
October 2007
31
Context.
29
Beside Sensō-ji
28
What’s Leopard really worth?
DM of the Rings
Beep. Japan, Day 0
26
Content AND Presentation
High ALtitude Object
High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
Egg pants
25
Soviets! In! Space!
24
Signalnoise: The art of James White
notcoming’s review of The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Auto line-height: a jQuery plugin for flexible layouts
23
Gmail gets IMAP
How cats wake us up
The Superest
Beep. Boeing? I hardly know her.
22
Drink Responsibly
Micropatronage: The revenge
Free My Phone
20
Jump (in pitch)!
Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
18
Swearing at work boosts team spirt, morale
Okami confirmed for Wii
No Shirts
Phone Fingers
Some quality feedback on the ALA survey.
Dalek Pumpkin
Beep. Jack Dalton’s Phone Number
17
Care to scrum?
Validator S.A.C.
Modern Mechanix
16
If I said you had a beautiful spreadsheet, would you hold it against me?
Thingamagoop
The Grief That Made ‘Peanuts’ Good
15
Greenpeace takes Apple to task on iPhone
A Mock Columnist, Amok
Alberto Cerriteño
14
The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us
A day in the life of the Soviet Union
Jinyoung Shin
13
How to disarm 10 difficult client observations/requests
Mel Blanc interviewed by David Letterman
12
Get Lat Lon: Find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map.
Lessing informed about Nobel, “couldn’t care less”
CorporatePig
Valve’s Portal: The Flash Game
Karate. Nuns.
11
exljbris, a free quality font foundry.
10
Revolution in Jesusland
Apple sued over “i-Bricks”
New trailer for The Golden Compass
09
Milk
Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context
08
Joseph Kosinski
06
Eastern Promises
Snipes and Connery, Sittin’ In a Tree
05
Indistinguishable from magic
Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament 2007
04
Portable Media Players = Thinly Disguised Plot For World Domination
Jennifer X.O.X.O. Daniel Loves You
Bunnies!
Target and accessible websites
The ThinkGeek 8-bit Tie
PromoGuy dot Net
Beep. Reason #29813 Why Single-Passenger Charter Planes Should Become the Norm
02
Rules of beeping
9/11 Is Over
Multi-Safari
01
$5 Chocolate Bar
September 2007
28
Cornell vs. Inman: A Photoshop Tennis match-up
Lineups for literacy
27
Stephen Fry: Let Fame
26
The Next Internet Millionaire
si scott design
25
Felipe Hefler’s SWEET
John Harvard statue gets Spartan’d
Hat Heads vs. Bed Heads
Female "ninjas" rob gas station
24
Generic gravatar cache
Richard Dawkins lays the cranial smack down.
“I already know how to drink.”
Les-LIE! Les-LIE! Les-LIE!
21
The Talk Show. Design by Airbag.
The Guests
A truckload of fixes for “sticky” Son of Suckerfish menus in IE7
20
Book Autopsies
Charles Bronson smells like pipe tobacco, old doormen, and bullets.
Written.
All Ampersand Up In It
iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage?
19
Stephen Fry has a blog.
Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
Charlie Rose’s 1996 discussion with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter
18
New music video for They Might Be Giants’ "I’m Impressed"
Adobe says CS3 may not work in Leopard
Joe Clark’s "Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway"
Wii: The Opera
17
"Where do ninjas come from, mommy?"
Rendering for an Interactive 360 Degree Light Field Display
15
Tieng Viet.html - How To Delete the Undeletable
studio aka
Introducing KitMate: TextMate + WebKit
Creammonkey
14
Istanbul 2007
Wardrob’d
13
Bush rating on Iraq improves, new poll finds
President Bush on the War
Anti-War minister attacked by Capitol Hill police
Jumbotron DS
Stop!
12
Matchbook Museum
Shadow Flower
Crazy portfolio of celebrity photo retouching
11
iTunes + ringtones = Rushed to market much?
The TypeTrust
Bloxorz
10
Bobby
Russ Casenhiser joins Airbag, ups rockstar quotient by 1000%.
How To Cope With Death
09
Poster and Artwork collection from the London Transport Museum
Hellohikimori
08
The Great Iraq Swindle
The Musical Intervals Tutor
07
Beep. Virb and Obey.
Name that Color
Handwritten interviews with some rockstar comic artists
06
An open letter to all iPhone customers from Steve Jobs
First Music of the Day
05
Beep. Chicken soup time.
Fighting Fit
I Think You’re Fat
Synchronised events around the plane crash in Lost
Edward Blake Is Not Amused
The killing of Jamie Dean.
04
Print: "I’m not dead yet!"
I Am Jack’s Own Special and Unique Snowflake
Optimizing Seam Carving
Jim Morrison’s video debut: a 1964 promotional video for FSU
Rumsfeld grilled by audience member on "lies" leading up to Iraq
"BLACK MAGIC VOODO CONGO, I SOLUCTION YOUR PROBLEM IN 24 HOURS."
02
Jones 5.
01
"Survival in the City"
August 2007
30
Flying cars. Want.
Email privacy now screwed.
Pictures of the original Macintosh User Manual
29
A dance lesson by James Brown
Designers & Developers for MDA
Beep. Drunkazon
Yu Chung Peter Chan
Filippa Smedhagen Sund, Makeup Artist
28
Beep. Ampersand it up
Mobile Web Design
Inka Järvinen
Shouting Underwater
Beep. Antonbot
27
collect.apply
Sunlight through the trees
Louis C.K., Bill Gates, and setting the world’s pants on fire
How to create water droplets in Photoshop
26
South Carolina’s Mensa chapter must be missing its president.
Web Designer Wall
24
New trailer for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Some architecture porn to start off your morning.
23
Nick AD
22
Seam carving
Ninjatown
Artists’ interpretations of their favorite literary figure
21
5ON
"____"
Northern State, You Are Fired
Atmostheory: Christopher David Ryan’s portfolio
Holy onomatopoeia, Batman!
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
20
Beep. Ben Hibon
Robots need love too.
This Is Not the Porn You’re Looking For
Ben Croshaw: funniest goddamned video game reviews ever.
The Faceball machine chugs along
Terry Gilliam’s Storytime
Q&A with Eric Olson
19
Beep. Borodin
Soundwave. As an MP3 player.
18
Big health risk seen in some laser printers
Best. Text message. Ever.
Beep. For those of you just using me for my bookmarks
Big health risk seen in some laser printers
Fixing garbage collection issues on IE 6
17
XRAY: now 100% more IElicious
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: What is Art Direction (No. 9)
Danceable Robot Nerfball.
16
Level 8 ogre mage seeks moon queen or druid
Max Roach passed away
Why FireFox is Blocked
Xbox Live Arcade statistics ‘n’ secrets
Audrey Kawasaki
Mobile Web Design, the book: Available August 28
Photos from the 1982 San Diego Comic Con
Beep. Beep.
15
What crisis?
Bad Putin. THAT’S A BAD PUTIN.
Known issues
jQuery for JavaScript programmers
Hotel Earle T-Shirt
Robert Holmkvist
14
Silly Pink Bunnies
Beep. Beep
Matt Damon appears on Arthur
You’re a handsome devil. What’s your name?
Ben Hammersley’s photos of a Hezbollah rally
School uniforms made stab-proof
AT&T admits it censored other bands
"The myth is that they left because they were too big for their small towns…"
13
Molly’s "Dear W3C, Dear WaSP" letter
10
8 ways to drive a graphic designer mad.
09
An interview with "Leeroy Jenkins"
Gallery of some gorgeous (if a bit scary) WWII-era propaganda
07
Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
Wondermark #325
06
"K.S.M. can say he killed Jesus—he has nothing to lose."
"Undercover" NBC Dateline reporter outed at DEFCON 2007, chased into parking lot
Ryan Ford
03
Really impressive gallery of book trade labels
Never trust a robot.
Beep. Vixylicious
02
Soccer touchdown!
Electric Heat: Nigel Evan Dennis’ online portfolio.
James Nesbitt might be the new Dr. Who?
01
Blast
Beep. Point of order
July 2007
31
A List Apart: Articles: Better Writing Through Design
Best snowboarding clip ever.
Sugarshock
Beep. Harrumph
I Lived on the Moon
30
Filmmaker Ingmar Bergman dies at 89
29
Gallery of (mostly) Polish posters
Seven Deadly Sins Wristbands
Silent Star Wars
28
Process Type Foundry’s Bryant 2 and Pro
Imogen Heap sings "Just For Now" live, and a capella
The Art Of Kevin Dart
Joy Ang
27
Concept art from the upcoming Iron Man movie
George Lucas, wearing a "Han Shot First" t-shirt
25
I don’t know. But it’s awesome.
Trailer for "The Darjeeling Limited," Wes Anderson’s new film
The etymology of "whiskey dick," Achewood style.
24
Ergotron 28-512-194 LX Dual Desk Mount Arm
23
Alex Fito
21
Prison is apparently "fun." Who knew.
20
Star Wars Anti-smoking commercial
Words Are Pictures // Craig Ward
18
An interview with Rob Weychert, Happy Coggist extraordinaire
17
Joe Pesci with His Head On Fire
No stinking badgers needed.
16
Voynich manuscript
Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously
13
Classy cat welcome Down Under
Douglas Adams’ Speech at Digital Biota 2
Site for LucasArts’ "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed"
A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent.
Justine Ashbee
12
Insert in place without [removed]
Typographica’s favorite fonts of 2006
10
Erika Moen’s Totally Online Portfolio
Wellcome images
New NOPATTERN
OMG Posters!
NOWhere Limited
Dan Stiles
06
Hi-res Halo 3 screenshot
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE RUNNING FROM?
05
SONGS OF PRAISE (WITH SUBTITLES)
04
The best Inigo Montoya t-shirt ever
June 2007
14
Advice for presentations: It happens!
13
8-bit t-shirt humor
12
Designer//Slash//Model
Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours
Bush visits Albania
08
The return of Photoshop Tennis
07
Typefaces used in corporate identities
06
Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ Photosynth demo at TED
05
Stephane Halleux
04