Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

links for 2008-07-10

• Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It | Bits | New York Times
  “Yahoo and Getty Images said Tuesday that they have entered into a partnership under which “Getty editors will comb Flickr in search of interesting images … Those who are included in the program will get paid at the same rates that Getty pays photograph
  (tags: photography flickr stock business)
• Versions
  Nice-looking Subversion client for the Mac. Much less intimidating than the command-line interface.
  (tags: svn software webdev todo via:rpongsaj)
• The Blogadilla Swedish Furniture Name Generator | Blogadilla.com
  If I was a piece of IKEA furniture, I’d be a table named ÄLLII.
  (tags: ikea humor tools furniture home via:annie)
• Do Campaign Buttons Represent the Candidate? | NPR
  “Steve Heller … talks about the plethora of political merchandise offered by the presidential candidates — and what it says about them.”
  (tags: election2008 politics campaign design branding toread)
• Handwritten Typographers
  Cameron Adams compares handwriting samples of various typographers. “Do typographers exert some extraordinary control of the pen that laypersons don’t? Does a typographer’s handwriting influence the typefaces they produce?”
  (tags: typography design via:slashdot)