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links for 2010-03-21
Who answers the White House phone, anyway? | The Week (tags: politics whitehouse communication) ...

Posted Sunday, March 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-03-19
The League of Moveable Type "We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free...

Posted Friday, March 19, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-03-18
The Daily Show's Best John Oliver Moments | Comedy Central Insider Blog (tags: humor satire dailyshow television) ...

Posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-03-16
LONDON GRAPHIC CENTRE - Graphic Supplies | Artists Supplies | Studio Equipment (tags: shopping design london todo art crafts) ...

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-03-15
McCain, Lesson Learned | Brand New Critique of John McCain's new campaign branding identity (tags: branding politics johnmccain) GigPosters.com - gig posters, flyers and handbills from around the world! (tags: music poster illustration) Lost Washington: Washington Airport | Greater...

Posted Monday, March 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-03-08
Posters | FloraFauna Music concert posters (tags: music portfolio shopping poster design illustration) Gesturecons - Multi-Touch Icons "Vector based icons created to aid in the design, development, implementation and promotion of multi-touch interfaces." (tags: icons free interface webdesign) ...

Posted Monday, March 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-03-04
Unphotographable: a text account of pictures missed (tags: humor photography via:rsholin) ...

Posted Thursday, March 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-26
A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services | BBC Internet Blog Outlining the site's new visual direction (tags: bbc webdesign branding) ...

Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-25
The Talent Show Brand Variety Show :: A monthly showcase of spectacle and surprise in midtown Manhattan (tags: nyc todo) ...

Posted Thursday, February 25, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-14
Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus Into Rolling Study Hall | NYTimes.com "In an Arizona district, the 'Internet Bus' has made students more productive and less rambunctious." (tags: education internet publictransit via:rpongsaj arizona) ...

Posted Sunday, February 14, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-12
HTML-Ipsum (tags: tools webdesign design) ...

Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-05
CUSTOM LETTERS 2009 | LetterCult Hand-drawn type. Some lovely stuff in this (HUGE) collection. (tags: typography illustration inspiration design toread) Flavors of Vancouver | NYTimes.com "Poised geographically and psychologically between Asia and Europe, Vancouver is a multicultural town, one...

Posted Friday, February 5, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-04
Know your type: Cheltenham | idsgn (a design blog) A history of the Cheltenham typeface, designed in the late 1800s and now best known as being the "face" of the New York Times. (tags: typography nytimes via:tysone) ...

Posted Thursday, February 4, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-03
Budget Forecasts, Compared With Reality | NYTimes.com "Just two years ago, surpluses were predicted by 2012. How accurate have past White House budget forecasts been?" (tags: visualization government economy infographics interactive) dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library "dygraphs is an open...

Posted Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-02-01
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface | Design Observer Michael Bierut writes, "Some typefaces are just perfect for certain things. I've specified exotic fonts for identity programs that work beautifully in headlines and even in text, but sooner...

Posted Monday, February 1, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-31
Rotofugi Gallery Chicago art gallery / toy shop (tags: chicago museum art shopping todo) Egg Watchers: the egg timer that entertains you (tags: humor tools video food recipe via:lifehacker) Stuffed Animal House American / Canadian wholesale manufacturer of stuffed...

Posted Sunday, January 31, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-30
Is anyone on staff actually reading the mobile version of your news website? | Online Journalism Review (tags: journalism cellphones onlinenews usability) Ear to the Ground | SEEDMAGAZINE.COM Large photos + natural/ambient sound -- a deceptively simple concept, nicely...

Posted Saturday, January 30, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-28
Adobe® BrowserLab (tags: webdev webdesign browser free via:lcochran) ...

Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-25
The Radiation Boom: Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm | NYTimes.com "While new technology saves the lives of countless cancer patients, errors can lead to unspeakable pain and death." (tags: medicine cancer health) Future of Okinawa...

Posted Monday, January 25, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-21
The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic | The Society for News Design (tags: interactive howto visualization netflix nytimes maps movies infographics) ...

Posted Thursday, January 21, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-20
Exploration of Beatles music through infographics | Michael Deal ◊ Graphic Design "These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but...

Posted Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-19
Fandom, Participatory Culture, and Web 2.0 -- A Syllabus | Confessions of an Aca/Fan I SO want to take this class from Henry Jenkins at USC. I'll settle for following the syllabus. "Fans have become some of the sharpest...

Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-17
The Destruction in Port-Au-Prince - Interactive Feature | NYTimes.com "View satellite photos from GeoEye that show Port-au-Prince before and after the Jan. 12 earthquake." (tags: photography interactive haiti onlinenews) ...

Posted Sunday, January 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-13
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s | NYTimes.com “People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project....

Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-09
Penne With a Mushroom Ragu Recipe Details | Recipe database | washingtonpost.com "Here, a few easily found ingredients make a dish loaded with flavor: Assorted mushrooms (you can buy them pre-sliced to save time) are sauteed with just enough...

Posted Saturday, January 9, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-07
The Restaurant Veselka Is a Beacon for Ukrainian Immigrants | NYTimes.com NYT profile of Ukrainian diner Veselka, one of our favorite restaurants in New York. Now I'm craving pierogis. (tags: food restaurant nyc via:rpongsaj) Extinct Toys | Josh Finkle...

Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-05
Defunct Names on Online Maps | The Map Room "A Chicago Tribune article notes the appearance on Google Maps of obsolete Chicago neighbourhood, street and building names -- names that haven’t been used for decades -- and landmarks that...

Posted Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2010-01-02
Patient Money: Tips to Treat a Cold or Flu, With Your Wallet in Mind | NYTimes.com "Americans spend billions of dollars on over-the-counter remedies, but some of the best treatments don't cost much at all." (tags: health medicine) ...

Posted Saturday, January 2, 2010 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-30
Akiyoshi's illusion pages Warning: This page contains some works of "anomalous motion illusion", which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better leave this page immediately. (tags: art psychology illustration science via:plopez) ...

Posted Wednesday, December 30, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-28
Genius Ways To Use Photoshop Smart Objects | Viget Inspire (tags: photoshop howto) Infographic: 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins | Simple Complexity "Infographic eye candy" about the hockey team's 2009 season (tags: infographics sports hockey) ...

Posted Monday, December 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-23
Underground Psychology | Slate Magazine Tom Vanderbilt writes, "Researchers have been spying on us on the subway. Here's what they've learned." (tags: psychology publictransit research) Copy Editing at The New Yorker Magazine | Red Room Andy Ross interviews New...

Posted Wednesday, December 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-20
The decade in news photographs | The Big Picture | Boston.com "Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs, it becomes clear that it was a dramatic, often brutal decade. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and wars were...

Posted Sunday, December 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-18
Hitchcock Collection | Ryan Tym Graphic Design Ryan Tym writes, "After recently purchasing a badly designed Alfred Hitchcock DVD box set, I set to work on creating my own collection of original covers. Each design features an iconic image...

Posted Friday, December 18, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-16
30 Amazing Tilt Shift Photographs | Photo Guides (tags: photography) In Obama's Words | The Washington Post "Every week President Obama delivers remarks on pressing issues. Find key speeches he has delivered since taking office in January 2009." (tags:...

Posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-15
Underground Signs Customize your own replica NYC subway sign, from 1 to 8 feet wide (tags: nyc publictransit signs shopping gifts via:rpongsaj) ...

Posted Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-11
Arlington's systemic streets | Greater Greater Washington The street system of Arlington, Va., can be confusing and convoluted for newbies (and even long-time residents), but there's actually some logic to it. (tags: geography arlingtonva history) Learn to Decode Your...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-10
Cable Freedom, Aided by a Mouse | NYTimes.com "A computer, with software upgrades and a wireless keyboard and mouse, can replace cable service." (tags: via:rpongsaj toread television technology howto) ...

Posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-07
$10 USB power outlet leaves no plug behind | Engadget Sweet! A standard two-plug electrical power outlet with two USB charging ports. Available early 2010. (tags: electronics home wishlist power) ...

Posted Monday, December 7, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-03
100 days in Glacier National Park | The Big Picture | Boston.com GORGEOUS photography. "This summer, Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson undertook a photographic project to take photos of Montana's Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting...

Posted Thursday, December 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-12-01
Platon: Photographs of World Leaders | The New Yorker "An interactive portfolio of portraits by Platon of world leaders, with commentary by the photographer." (tags: photography world politics) ...

Posted Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-24
Rifle Paper Co. (tags: stationary shopping) The Rules for Long S | BabelStone Some rules for using the "long s" (the one that looks like an "f" in 16th and 17th century writing). (tags: typography language history via:fontbureau) ...

Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-23
Brainstorm Print and Design - Custom Silkscreen Print Shop and Design Studio (tags: poster shopping design illustration) ...

Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-20
Letters Lost, Meaning Found | City Room Blog | NYTimes.com "When the sign outside Elmhurst Hospital Center lost an 'E' and 'S' because the lights burned out, the result was 'lmhur t.' Or, to some eyes, 'I'm hurt.'" (tags:...

Posted Friday, November 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-12
United Tastes: Preserving New Orleans Culture One Po’ Boy Sandwich at a Time | NYTimes.com "This month, New Orleans is having a party for the po' boy." (tags: food neworleans todo) ...

Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-11
In New York, Taxi Revenue and Tips From Credit Cards Rise | NYTimes.com If only DC's cabs were as cheap and easy to use as NYC's... From the NYT story: "Although New York was late to bring credit cards...

Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-10
White Chicken Enchiladas | The Pioneer Woman Cooks I MUST try this. (tags: recipe food dinner mexican chicken) ...

Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-08
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - A Division Through Time | Interactive Feature | NYTimes.com Deceptively simple, quite effective then/now photo series of the Berlin Wall. (tags: photography history germany berlin interactive) ...

Posted Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-07
Doublenaut | Shop: Posters Screenprinted concert posters (tags: shopping poster music illustration via:dari) ...

Posted Saturday, November 7, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-11-01
The Measure of Old Bay Seasoning: Still Pouring It On Strong | washingtonpost.com The popular seasoning blend has been around for 70 years now. "What would you do if you suddenly found yourself without a can of Old Bay?...

Posted Sunday, November 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-31
To Harvest Squash, Click Here | NYTimes.com I confess I am rather addicted to this game. I blame my sister. "Crazes on Facebook seem to come in waves -- remember sheep-throwing, Vampire Wars and lists of '25 Random Things...

Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-28
Basics: A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task | NYTimes.com Such a sad description of a dopamine-deficient lab mouse: "Yet left on its own, the mouse will not rouse itself for dinner. The mere thought of walking...

Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-24
The Poster List: Pop Art Posters! (tags: shopping poster illustration design via:cmoll) ...

Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-23
ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Chapter 5, Arrays | O'Reilly Media It's maddening that this is even an issue. "Problem: You want to make an exact copy (a duplicate) of an array--one that contains all of the elements found in the...

Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-22
Q&A With the Travel Photographer Robert Caplin | Frugal Traveler | NYTimes.com Matt Gross asks Caplin "how to shoot like a magazine photographer on a shoestring budget." (tags: photography via:rpongsaj) ...

Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-20
Link by Link: In Trafigura Case, The Guardian and Twitter Untie Gag Order | NYTimes.com "The editor of The Guardian in London, Alan Rusbridger, and other Twitter users worked around a gag order that protected Trafigura, the shipping company."...

Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-19
The Song Decoders at Pandora | NYTimes.com "By breaking music down into its component parts, Pandora Internet radio tries to figure out what kind of music you -- not your social group, heroes or aspirational self -- really like."...

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-17
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts | Wired Science | Wired.com The Mercury 13: "In the late 1950s, the United States government contemplated training women as astronauts, and newly released medical test results show that they were...

Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-16
For Hearing, Sign Language Becomes Classroom Tool | washingtonpost.com Some teachers are teaching students sign language for common classroom requests (restroom, water, etc.), which allows them to respond to the request non-verbally without disrupting the rest of the class....

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-13
100 Hotels Under $150 | NYTimes.com "A list of 100 hotels, culled from readers' suggestions, that represent some of the best bargains for travelers headed to one of 14 European cities in the next few months." (tags: travel lodging...

Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-10
Colbert Nation Interview Simulator "Want to appear on The Colbert Report but just can't finish that groundbreaking political memoir? Now you don't have to! Use the Colbert Nation's advanced Interview Simulation technology to go toe-to-toe with the most Lincolnish...

Posted Saturday, October 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-08
Near Whistler, a Place to Play for Less | Frugal Traveler | NYTimes.com "Squamish's hotels and bed-and-breakfasts tend to be half the price of Whistler's, and the town’s lack of pretense mean little things, like cafe breakfasts that aren't...

Posted Thursday, October 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-06
Top 10 comic book cities: #2 Chris Ware’s Chicago | The Critics | Architects Journal "Many stories are set in Chicago and its suburbs. In Jimmy Corrigan: the smartest kid on Earth, Ware depicts the skyscrapers of Louis Sullivan...

Posted Tuesday, October 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-05
U2 turns 360 stadium tour into attendance-shattering sellouts | USATODAY.com "You don't need a calculator to figure out that U2 x 360 = XXL. Massive describes almost every aspect of U2's revolutionary 360° Tour, a futuristic juggernaut that defies...

Posted Monday, October 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-03
Plate Tectonic Reconstructions at UTIG Tectonic plate shapefiles (tags: gis maps) Local website creators hit the jackpot : News : WPDE Interview with Adam Kipple and Luke Wherry about their site peopleofwalmart.com. (Kipple used to be a designer at...

Posted Saturday, October 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-10-02
Photojojo's Ultimate Guide to Road Trip Photography | Photojojo "We at Photojojo love road trips because they're a photographer's dream: each new mile is a photo waiting to happen. So we've compiled our Ultimate Guide to Road Trip Photography,...

Posted Friday, October 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-29
Great Australian Road Trips (tags: travel australia roadtrip todo) django-photologue - Project Hosting on Google Code "Photologue is a reusable Django application that provides powerful image management and manipulation functionality as well as a complete photo gallery solution." (tags:...

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-25
The iPhone is not easy to use: a new direction for UX Design | Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction Fred Beecher on incorporating elements of play into user experience design. He writes, "The iPhone is surprisingly difficult...

Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-24
Rock Concert Photography -- 9 Tips on How to Get The Shot | Digital Photography School Nyani Quarmyne talks about getting the shot -- catching that moment in a show that captures the essence of a performer and the...

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-21
For Writing Software, a Buddy System | NYTimes.com Patricia R. Olsen writes, "A proponent of a collaborative method of working believes it saves a company time and money by revealing bugs quickly." (tags: jobs productivity webdev toread) No Squishing:...

Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-17
Here's Proof: Fast Food Made at Home Is Cheaper and Better | washingtonpost.com (tags: recipe food restaurant via:rwalker toread) Panorama with a twist | Helen Bradley - Photoshop and Lightroom tips and techniques How-to for a way to make...

Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-16
Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle | Mother Jones "Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it. Mary J. Blige won't sing without it. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the...

Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-15
In the Polar Bear Capital of the World | washingtonpost.com Photo gallery: "Winter comes early in Manitoba, bringing some furry white visitors both darling and deadly." (tags: travel canada winter photography) Interactive: The Bailouts: An Accounting | NYTimes.com "In...

Posted Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-14
Explorer: In Texas, Seeing the West as It Was | NYTimes.com "The untamed West in all its cranky, craggy, dusty, arid majesty seems to have been frozen in time at Guadalupe Mountains National Park." (tags: travel texas park todo)...

Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-12
In Block Island, R.I., Summer Lasts Longer | NYTimes.com "With most of the island open until Columbus Day, locals say September and October are a great time to visit this Rhode Island destination." (tags: todo travel vacation rhodeisland via:rpongsaj)...

Posted Saturday, September 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-11
3 In-depth Views of Flight Delays and Cancellations | FlowingData (tags: travel visualization statistics airport design infographics) ...

Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-09
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks (tags: blogs humor language via:designobserver) ...

Posted Wednesday, September 9, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-09-07
Typography Fans Say Ikea Should Stick to Furniture | NYTimes.com "The company provoked outrage among designers when it replaced its version of the famed font Futura with the computer-screen font Verdana in its 2010 catalog." (tags: typography ikea design)...

Posted Monday, September 7, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-25
Metro Sign Shop Keeps Riders Pointed in The Right Direction | washingtonpost.com A look at the WMATA department that produces signage for the Metro system. (tags: design signs metrorail washingtondc) ...

Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-23
Recipes for Health - Baked Orzo With Tomatoes, Roasted Peppers and Zucchini - NYTimes.com (tags: recipe food pasta todo) ...

Posted Sunday, August 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-22
MythBuster Adam Savage Leads Twitter Revolt Against AT&T | TechCrunch "The source of the recent flurry of AT&T tweets is Adam Savage of MythBusters fame, who tweets that for 'a few hours of web surfing in Canada' he was...

Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-21
You Don't Say: Our vanishing heritage Glossary of newspaper lingo (tags: language newspapers news journalism via:rsholin) ...

Posted Friday, August 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-20
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch | NYTimes.com Food writer Michael Pollan on Julia Child, cooking shows and modern eating. "How American cooking became a spectator sport, and what we lost along the way." (tags: food culture television...

Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-19
Banff makes hay while ground squirrel is hot | Calgary Herald "An Alberta ground squirrel is poised to become Canada's most famous animal after the creature inserted itself hilariously into a timed photo being taken by a U.S. couple...

Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-17
Really? | The Claim: Cold Temperatures Improve Sleep | NYTimes.com "Avoiding caffeine, sticking to a schedule and drinking a glass of warm milk are the usual tips for a good night’s rest. But the right room temperature can also...

Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 | Comments (1)

links for 2009-08-13
Blackberry Ice Cream | The Pioneer Woman Cooks (tags: recipe icecream dessert food via:edansie) Blackberries in Mascarpone Cream Recipe Details | Recipe database | washingtonpost.com (tags: dessert recipe food todo berries via:chopkins) Tomato Curry Recipe Details | Recipe database...

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-11
USAA Bank Will Let Customers Deposit Checks by iPhone | NYTimes.com Just tried this out this afternoon with the updated iPhone app. Really easy to use, and saves me the time/trouble of having to mail stuff in and wait...

Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-08-08
Interactive Map: The Economy Where You Live | NPR Interactive map from colleagues Nelson Hsu and Robert Benincasa: "The fallout from the recession has cut deeply into the housing security, employment and income of many Americans. But some parts...

Posted Saturday, August 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-28
"GOOD" Design | The Bygone Bureau "Kevin Nguyen speaks to the folks responsible for GOOD Magazine’s infographics." (tags: infographics visualization interview data design toread) Coffee Cups - a set on Flickr A collection of illustrated styrofoam coffee cups (tags:...

Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-27
NPR Moves to Rewire Its Approach to the Web | NYTimes.com "An easier to navigate site is part of a digital expansion intended to improve NPR's journalism and to make public radio more widely available." (tags: onlinenews npr webdesign...

Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-22
An Explanation of Photoshop Blend Modes | My Ink Blog An excellent explanation / demo of how multiply, color burn, et al work in Photoshop. (tags: photoshop howto design via:onemoreryan) Wikipedia as a Font for Facts, but a Desert...

Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-17
We Choose the Moon: Earth Orbit Begins Very cool site to celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing. Follow the mission in "real time." (tags: science space history interactive) ...

Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-15
The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics | Wired "Using a flood of new tools and technologies, each of us now has the ability to easily collect granular information about our lives --...

Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-08
Colorbrewer: Color Advice for Maps Very cool color palette generator for maps. I wish it would let you specify a color and have it calculate the rest of the palette from there, but the palettes it offers are still...

Posted Wednesday, July 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-05
The Media Equation: A Publisher Stumbles Publicly at the Post | NYTimes.com An NYT take on the Washington Post "salon" kerfuffle. (tags: washpost journalism ethics via:dcgrrl) ...

Posted Sunday, July 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-04
Is Michael Mann's Public Enemies historically accurate? | Slate Magazine (tags: movies history chicago) ...

Posted Saturday, July 4, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-03
Chicago is the epicenter of another film credit | chicagotribune.com Chicago-area shooting locations for the movie "Public Enemies." "Sitting in darkened theaters, Chicagoans will no doubt recognize some of the three dozen city locations featured in the film, as...

Posted Friday, July 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-02
Obama Ate Here | Google Maps "A calendar by Alex Nicholson, food writer for brightestyoungthings.com, showing all the places the Obama family have been spotted eating." (tags: washingtondc googlemaps food restaurant barackobama) ...

Posted Thursday, July 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-07-01
Ambrose was having a bad day | I Can Has Cheezburger? (tags: humor penguins) ...

Posted Wednesday, July 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-27
Why Did the Washington Post Sack Dan Froomkin? | City Desk | Washington City Paper "It would be wonderful ... if the Post's move had really been motivated by partisan politics. Or, better yet, by a fear that this...

Posted Saturday, June 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-24
Wealth-Care Reform | The American Prospect Ezra Klein writes, "Fixing our health-care system will make us more economically secure. It won't make us much healthier." (tags: health politics finance toread) ...

Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-22
The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) | TargetPoint Infographic showing annual Supreme Court justice ideological "scores" since 1937. (tags: supremecourt law politics history statistics infographics via:brianboyer) ...

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-21
Infographics for a birthday | Infographics news Very cool infographic showing key economic statistics and key historical moments in Germany over the past 60 years. "Golden Section, Jan Schowchow's infographics service, celebrated the 60 years of german democracy with...

Posted Sunday, June 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-19
'Up' Color Script | Lou Romano A storyboard with emphasis on color and lighting for the Pixar movie. (tags: illustration art color animation via:dari movies) blog 30 x 30: Which Student are You? Annotated illustrations of art school student...

Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-10
Patchwork Nation | Online NewsHour | PBS County-level data maps for this new incarnation of Christian Science Monitor's "Patchwork Nation" project. (tags: interactive maps flash database statistics via:eyeseast) ...

Posted Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-08
Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre | Wired Interesting story about the game 'Settlers of Catan' and the unique qualities of German strategy games. "Instead of direct conflict, German-style games tend to let players win without having...

Posted Monday, June 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-05
Redesigning The Government: The U.S. Supreme Court | Sunlight Foundation Blog Well-done, part of a series of proposed redesigns for major government Web sites. "President Obama's nomination of Judge Sotomayor has brought increased attention to the U.S. Supreme Court....

Posted Friday, June 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-04
Historical Hurricane Tracker | MSNBC.com Interactive map / database of hurricane data since 1851, plotting storm routes, strength, etc. (tags: interactive weather flash database via:dwillis) So Why Isn't This Once-Mighty Super-Guy More Famous? | Monkey See | NPR Glen...

Posted Thursday, June 4, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-06-03
No Grapes, No Nuts, No Market Share: A Venerable Cereal Faces Crunchtime | WSJ.com "All the world's Grape Nuts come from a dirty-white, six-story concrete building with steam rising out of the roof here in the San Joaquin Valley."...

Posted Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Your Government | The Oregonian A nicely-done U.S. Congress votes / activity database powered by the NYT Congress API. (tags: congress government nytimes database via:dwillis) Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com Interesting way to navigate MSNBC RSS headline feeds. I'm...

Posted Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

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All About Floats | CSS Tricks A nice primer on clearing floats. (tags: css webdesign webdev howto reference via:zeldman) ...

Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Best Happy Hours for Impressing a Date in the DC area | washingtonpost.com "Sometimes you want (or need) to meet for drinks at a place that's a little classier than usual -- where your guests won't have beer spilled...

Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Unsung heroes of World War II finally get their due | CNN.com "The Women's Airforce Service Pilots was born in 1942 to create a corps of female pilots able to fill all types of flying jobs at home to...

Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fifty People One Question Well-produced video project, featuring people in Brooklyn and London. "We had an idea. Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses." (tags: video blog via:zlwise) Google Searches for Staffing Answers...

Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Farm Fresh To You "To keep your produce at its best, follow these easy storage and handling instructions. We've also included quick cooking tips, to help when slow cooking isn't on the menu." (tags: food howto) Awkward Family Photos...

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 | Comments (0)

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The Trouble with Double X | The American Prospect Ann Friedman writes, "Is the niche-ification of the Internet amplifying or ghettoizing women's voices?" (tags: onlinenews business fragmentation audience) There Are Four Lights! | Slate Magazine Juliet Lapidos on "Star...

Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Invasion of the Neutered Sprites | Design Observer Michael Bierut writes, "Finally I reduced the figures down to their essence: eyeless balls representing heads, atop curvy stars, with the four points representing fingerless, toeless arms and legs. 'That's it!'...

Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Who owns the facts? The AP and the "hot news" controversy | Ars Technica "In 1918, the Supreme Court created a 'hot news' quasi-property right that still exists in some places today, and the Associated Press has been threatening...

Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

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44th Ward Dinner Party Chicago restaurant specializing in variations of the grilled cheese sandwich (tags: food restaurant chicago todo via:rpongsaj) Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? | NYTimes.com "Can a company blunt its innovation edge...

Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

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OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN "[P]hotos of Japan between the 1860s and 1930s. In 1854, Japan opened its doors to the outside world for the first time in more than 200 years. It set in motion a truly astounding transformation....

Posted Thursday, May 7, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Behind The Business Plan Of Pirates Inc. | NPR "Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become an international problem -- and an international business. The issues of criminality and the potential for violence aside, a closer look at...

Posted Tuesday, May 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Swallow Bistro Philadelphia restaurant that specializes in mac & cheese -- as in, that's pretty much their whole menu. (tags: restaurant food philadelphia via:jaunted) ...

Posted Monday, May 4, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fan Relationships (It's Complicated) | Mike Arauz Mike Arauz writes, "But, relationships between fans and the creators of the work that has earned the fans' devotion are complex, and the diverse roles represent varying degrees of active participation." (tags:...

Posted Saturday, May 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

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100 days of Barack Obama's Facebook news feed. | Slate Magazine Hilarious: "News organizations have done an admirable job of recapping the first 100 days of the Obama administration. But rarely do we stumble across a primary source like...

Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 | Comments (0)

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The Geometry of Design | Viget Labs In which Doug explains his process of applying ideas from the Geometry of Design, such as the golden rectangle, to a (very cute) logo design. (tags: design howto illustration via:davery) ...

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

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How Fail Whale became a hit | smh.com.au "Yiying Lu is responsible for one of the most iconic images circulating the world's social media scene. Her illustration depicting a smiling white whale being lifted out of the ocean by...

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Metro reveals planned art for Silver Line stations - Greater Greater Washington "Today, the Metro Board will review proposals for public art at Farragut North and future Silver Line stations at Tysons Corner and Reston. According to the presentation,...

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

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NameMapper: USA Baby Name Map, Most Popular Baby Names by State | The Baby Name Wizard Fascinating interactive map / graph of baby names over geography / time. (tags: names visualization interactive maps via:cartophiliac) Four Corners marker 21/2 miles...

Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

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A PolitiFact Moment for Journalism | aronpilhofer.com NYT's Aron Pilhofer on the Pulitzer Prize awarded to PolitiFact: "What's hard to convey in 140 characters is the significance of that statement: The award going to PolitiFact -- the first Web...

Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

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U.S. military enlists iPod Touch for battlefield | Apple - CNET News "Apple's iPod Touch is proving to be a valuable tool to members of the U.S. military, according to a report in Newsweek. The report notes that the...

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

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The Exorcist Stairs ruined it for everyone | Pygmalion In A Blanket A DC blogger on the frequent use of the stretch of K Street under the Whitehurst Freeway for movies set in DC: "Murder! Intrigue! Parking Garage! Looks...

Posted Friday, April 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Freedom - OS X Networking Freedom Software "Freedom is an application that disables networking on an Apple computer for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time...

Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Sculpting The Digital Dollar | NPR "John Mercanti's title at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia is chief engraver, but it's a little inaccurate. For one thing, no human at the Mint has actually engraved anything for years. This is...

Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Gramercy Tavern's Nancy Olson Rates New York's Cupcakes | Grub Street | New York Magazine (tags: cupcakes nyc dessert review) My Manhtattan Project: How Michael Osinski Helped Build the Bomb That Blew Up Wall Street | New York Magazine...

Posted Saturday, April 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Getting the inside scoop on a favourite Easter confection | TheStar.com "Some 300 million eggs are exported annually to North America. But, proving that elitists who swear by English sweets are not barking mad, Pitt admits that U.K. eggs...

Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Google's Love For Newspapers & How Little They Appreciate It | Daggle Well-put, from Danny Sullivan re: Google and AP's recently-announced campaign against aggregators: "Newspapers get special treatment, both with First Click Free and with the extraordinary amount of...

Posted Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Map Projections | USGS Listings / explanations of different kind of map projections and suggested uses for each. (tags: maps via:rbenincasa) ...

Posted Tuesday, April 7, 2009 | Comments (0)

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To Appreciate the Art of Film Editing, You Must Start With a Frame of Reference | washingtonpost.com (tags: movies jobs) Newspapers aren't assets to be flipped, leveraged, and stripped. | Slate Magazine Daniel Gross writes, "[T]he newspaper companies that...

Posted Monday, April 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-04-01
Proxy in PHP for your widgets to talk to the DayPI | Daylife Cookbook "Applications written as Java applets, Flash or Javascript widgets often face security issues where they cannot talk to a data source which does not have...

Posted Wednesday, April 1, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-31
'24' Gets a Few Washington Details Wrong | washingtonpost.com "For anyone who knows anything about [DC] local landmarks, streets and place names, '24's' frequent misappropriations and invented locales have become an amusing sidelight to the series' unending series of...

Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Caffeine: A Legal Performance Booster | NYTimes.com "Caffeine, it turns out, actually works. And it is legal, one of the few performance enhancers that is not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. So even as sports stars from baseball...

Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 | Comments (0)

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When This Guy Talks, NPR Listens | washingtonpost.com "David Candow, the man who makes National Public Radio sound like National Public Radio, has a simple piece of advice for anyone who wants to get in front of a microphone:...

Posted Sunday, March 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-28
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny | Vimeo The story of Little Red Riding Hood, told in animated infographics. (tags: video visualization animation infographics books via:dari children) Shepard Fairey: The AP, Obama, & Referencing | Huffington Post Fairey on the...

Posted Saturday, March 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

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For Smithsonian, a Sad Souvenir of the Inauguration | washingtonpost.com Adrian Higgins writes, "By the time the president took his oath, the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden was not only unsafe, it had been trampled to dust." (tags: inauguration2009 washingtondc...

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Marvel prepares to showcase Wolverine from a very different perspective | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com "Inspired by some of the world's greatest artists, these variant covers depict Wolverine like you've never seen him before, in styles reminiscent of Pablo...

Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook | booktwo.org James Bridle printed a hardcover book collecting all of his Twitter posts from a two-year period. (tags: writing twitter books) Hate Facebook's new look? You'll like it soon enough. | Slate Magazine...

Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

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As Cuts Loom, Will Working From Home Lead to a Layoff? | washingtonpost.com "In good times, workers frequently seized the opportunity to use 'flex time' and family leave, to telecommute and to take paid sick days. But, according to...

Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Gmail's New 'Undo Send' Feature Saves You From Outbox Regret | Epicenter | Wired.com "'Undo Send' puts a five to 10-second hold on all outgoing messages. If you addressed an e-mail to the wrong person, let slip with an...

Posted Sunday, March 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-21
Goodbye Google | stopdesign Douglas Bowman, on leaving his design job at Google after 3 years: "Yes, it's true that a team at Google couldn't decide between two blues, so they're testing 41 shades between each blue to see...

Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-20
Winter Tomato and Celery Soup With Rice | Recipes for Health | NYTimes.com Martha Rose Shulman writes, "Simpler than a minestrone, yet satisfying in the same way, I'm always struck by the depth of flavor in this soup. It's...

Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-19
Little Brownie Bakers -- Cookie Locator Type in your zip code to find Girl Scout Cookies® for sale near you. (tags: todo food shopping cookies) Looking Into the Past | a set on Flickr A project from Jason Powell:...

Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Mathematician says his Sudoku secret is foolproof | USATODAY.com "Computer scientist J. F. Crook has cooked up a set of steps that work for any version of the game..." (tags: games via:poynter) Mistrial by iPhone - Juries' Web Research...

Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable | Clay Shirky "Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism." (tags: newspapers toread journalism) Is It Time to Retrain Business Schools? | NYTimes.com "Some are wondering if the way business students are...

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-16
Seven Impossible Interviews Before Breakfast #81: Dave McKean | Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast Interview with illustrator Dave McKean (a frequent Neil Gaiman collaborator), with lots of portfolio samples. (tags: toread design comics illustration art interview via:ngaiman) ...

Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-13
Harry Beck: The Paris Connection | CR Blog "In 1951 Beck submitted this revised edition of a map he had worked on for the Paris Metro in the late 1930s. But his map for the French capital was rejected...

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-11
Darn It! | Craftzine.com blog Arwen O'Reilly Griffith writes, "When you darn, you are essentially reweaving the textile; with modern knit items, it's a little bit trickier because you need a similar stretch as the base material, but still...

Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

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yourSABBATICAL.com - Sabbaticals, Career Breaks, Work Leaves, Employee Engagement & Retention "More and more people are discovering that time away from work can boost a career. And smart companies are realizing that having an employee leave ... for just...

Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Barley Soup With Mushrooms and Kale | Recipes for Health | NYTimes.com (tags: todo food recipe vegetarian soup) DCist's Favorite Breakfasts - DCist Assorted DC-area breakfast / brunch recommendations from DCist contributors (tags: washingtondc todo restaurant brunch breakfast) ...

Posted Monday, March 9, 2009 | Comments (0)

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On the Road: "NPR's '100 Days' series takes a journalistic road trip" | CJR "David Greene -- NPR White House reporter turned national correspondent -- travels the country's midsection, his course guided by input from listeners, e-mailers, and Twitterers,...

Posted Thursday, March 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Happy Hour Finder | washingtonian.com "Welcome to Washingtonian.com's Happy Hour Finder, our easy-to-use listing of area drink specials and happy hours in DC, Virginia and Maryland." (tags: todo washingtondc reference food restaurant search) JSON utility | Yahoo! UI Library...

Posted Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-03-03
Office of the Tooth Fairy Charmingly designed. "The Official Tooth Fairy Kit contains one letterpress Certificate of Record for filing with your local Tooth Fairy and one reusable silkscreened cloth deposit bag for your first and all subsequent transactions....

Posted Tuesday, March 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Happy Medium | NYTimes.com A profile of Kathy Cano-Murillo, of Craftychica.com (and The Arizona Republic). "How an indie-crafts venture found mainstream expression." (tags: jobs art crafts azrepublic) NYT: This was 1984 | blprnt.blg Beautiful visualizations: "This series of images...

Posted Monday, March 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Details on Obama's Budget | NPR "President Obama unveiled a multi-trillion-dollar budget Thursday, an ambitious plan to boost clean energy development, access to education and health care coverage. Some of those costs would be offset in part by allowing...

Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

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The Obama Tracker | NPR Nice work by some of my NPR compatriots. "President Obama has kicked off his term by making key leadership appointments, carrying out an ambitious economic plan and laying the foundation for foreign and domestic...

Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-24
How to Present While People are Twittering | Pistachio Olivia Mitchell writes, "Up until now, this back-channel has been mainly confined to the Internet industry and technology conferences. However, a survey of leadership conferences from Weber Shandwick shows that...

Posted Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-22
Ira Glass | Gel Videos "A master class in storytelling. Ira Glass, host of 'This American Life' on radio and TV, has spent years telling stories, and getting stories told. In one of the most popular Gel talks ever,...

Posted Sunday, February 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-20
WaPo Working with Roger Black | City Desk | Washington City Paper Interesting tidbits not just about the status of the paper/site redesign, but regarding the ongoing efforts to merge the print / Web newsrooms as well. (tags: washpost...

Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Facebook to Launch Redesigned Pages for Businesses - Tour & First Impressions | Inside Facebook A preview of the new look for company / product Pages, which look much more like profile pages. There's more emphasis on the Wall...

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-18
Harry Potter Redesign | The Art of M. S. Corley "Redesigned The Harry Potter book covers to look like Penguin Classics." (tags: design via:designobserver illustration books) ...

Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-16
NPR | The Fast Company 50 | Fast Company NPR is #28 on Fast Company's list of "the world's most innovative companies" -- "NPR's tote bags-and-teacups image belies a formidable digital news organization. Despite recent layoffs, NPR is building...

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-12
When can I use... "Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies" (tags: toread reference webdev browser via:pharkins standards) Flying Through Google Earth at Macworld | Google LatLong David Phillip Oster writes, "This year...

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-06
AnnaTheRed's Sci-Fi Bento Boxes Taste Like Nerd Bliss | The Underwire | Wired.com Nerdily awesome bento box food designs. "A little rice, some Japanese-style hamburger and a deep love of geeky subject matter have turned bento box blogger AnnaTheRed...

Posted Friday, February 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

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AP Wants Credit and Compensation for Iconic Obama Image | Editor and Publisher (tags: election2008 journalism design photography poster copyright) 'NYT' Editor Reveals 'Deadly Serious' Discussions on Charging for Online | Editor and Publisher "The editor of The New...

Posted Thursday, February 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-04
Show Me the TARP Money | ProPublica Database / map of where the money allocated by the first economic stimulus / bank bailout package went. (tags: government database maps economics finance) Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package |...

Posted Wednesday, February 4, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-03
All of Inflation's Little Parts | NYTimes.com Beautiful stained glass-looking infographic. "Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers 84,000 prices in about 200 categories -- like gasoline, bananas, dresses and garbage collection -- to form the Consumer Price...

Posted Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-02-02
Save the Words "Lexicographers analyze the frequency of word usage in popular culture and media to decide which new words will go into the dictionary, but they also track the falling popularity of words and opt to remove them....

Posted Monday, February 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-31
Interactive Maps | Measure of America (tags: interactive reference maps data statistics gis via:rbenincasa) 50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography | CSS, Fonts | Smashing Magazine (tags: webdesign toread css typography via:kmccann) ...

Posted Saturday, January 31, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-30
Nonprofit Newspapers | Think Tank | The New Yorker Former Postie Steve Coll writes, "I have been mulling over this idea: that only by turning the Post into a nonprofit trust and raising a university-size endowment to support the...

Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-29
FaceOut Books "This venue has been created to appreciate the practice of book cover design. This is not a blog to rip apart what we dislike -- everyone has a different aesthetic. This is a blog about the challenges...

Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-28
Quit Your Day Job: lillyella | The Storque | Etsy Profile of a jewelry designer who quit her job to sell jewelry full-time via Etsy, focusing on the steps she took to develop her business. (tags: business jobs finance...

Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-27
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Errol Morris Blog - NYTimes.com Errol Morris writes, "The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services -- AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence France-Presse) and Thomson...

Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-25
Fitness Isn't an Overnight Sensation | NYTimes.com "There are many examples of people who took up exercise and markedly changed their appearance. But how long does it take?" (tags: exercise health) ...

Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-24
Microsoft Oval Office | Slate Magazine Nina Shen Rastogi writes, "Barack Obama completed his first full day as president on Wednesday. Pictures of the historic occasion showed Obama sitting at a gleaming Oval Office desk. Will all that empty...

Posted Saturday, January 24, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-23
What's next for post-Bush 'Daily Show'? | Variety "With George Bush back in Crawford, Texas, and Barack Obama in the White House trying to deal with the nation's woes, will 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart' still have enough...

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 | Comments (0)

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Homepage Highlights | Poynter Online "On the day of the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as America's 44th president, we see examples of how Web sites across the country and around the world captured the scene in Washington, D.C....

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-21
Obama Inaugural Address | washingtonpost.com "After being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama delivered an inaugural address that called for a 'new era of responsibility.' Below is a video presentation of the full...

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-18
Making Modular Layout Systems | 24 ways CSS tutorial from designer Jason Santa-Maria (tags: css webdesign howto) Obama's People | The New York Times Portraits of key people in Obama's administration by Nadav Kander (tags: photography government) ...

Posted Sunday, January 18, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-12
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady | New York Magazine A profile of the NYT's Aron Pilhofer, Andrew DeVigal, Steve Duenes, Matthew Ericson, and Gabriel Dance. "What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe...

Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-11
Senate Chamber Desks | U.S. Senate Interactive map of the Senate floor, with seating chart and photos of each desk (including the inscriptions that senators have made in their desk drawers since the early 1900s). (tags: reference politics history...

Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-10
One in 8 Million | The New York Times "New York is a city of characters. On the subway and in its streets, from the intensity of Midtown to the intimacy of neighborhood blocks, is a 305-square-mile parade of...

Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-09
Multimedia Projects You May Have Missed in 2008 | Poynter Online Regina McCombs highlights "some interesting multimedia projects done by local and specialized news organizations you might have missed this year. (tags: journalism maps video onlinenews photography interactive 2008)...

Posted Friday, January 9, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-08
Supermarket Strategies | Time-Saving Tips for Busy Parents | Food | RealSimple.com "Are supermarkets all alike? In important ways, yes. This blueprint shows a typical layout. Experts in store design explain why this setup is so common and share...

Posted Thursday, January 8, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-06
Quenching Las Vegas' Thirst | Las Vegas Sun Nice documentary / interactive about water resources around Las Vegas. (tags: journalism toread maps video onlinenews data interactive lasvegas via:wshefte) ...

Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2009-01-05
Andrew Bird Discovers His Inner Operatic Folkie | NYTimes.com "Alone with his violin, his whistling and his thoughts, a singer-songwriter finds his sound." (tags: music chicago) ...

Posted Monday, January 5, 2009 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-31
iPhone-Likeness | Daring Fireball John Gruber writes, "I'll put forth one central, overriding guideline for iPhone UI design: Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell...

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-29
On Notice: Best of 'The Colbert Report' in 2008 | Express Night Out "IT'S BEEN A busy year for Stephen T. Colbert. He had a spider named after him, introduced Ben Franklin to the Roomba, and kicked the crap...

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-25
The Role of Design in Modern Church Marketing | Sitepoint "Any web designer subscribing to Screenalicious, CSS Mania, or Best Web Gallery can attest to the recent rise of hip, high-quality church web sites. A non-churchgoing designer might wonder...

Posted Thursday, December 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-20
Obama logo ideas that weren't chosen | Logo Design Love (tags: election2008 design politics branding logos identity via:brandnew) Your Guide to Alternative Business Models for Newspapers | MediaShift | PBS Mark Glaser writes, "The models we profile range from...

Posted Saturday, December 20, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-18
Microsoft Word 2000 HTML Mess Cleaner | AlgoTech Internet Marketing "Free tool that removes clutter from Microsoft Word 2000-generated html-code." (tags: webdesign tools html microsoft) ...

Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-17
Roads, Trains Can't Handle Jan. 20 Droves | washingtonpost.com Oh this will be fun. "Even if only half of the projected 2 million to 4 million people show up for next month's presidential inauguration, the Washington region's roadways and...

Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-16
'08 Voter Turnout Rate Said to Be Highest in 40 Years | washingtonpost.com "Final figures from nearly every state and the District of Columbia showed that more than 131 million people voted. A little more than 122 million voted...

Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-15
14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites "The key insight behind these best practices is the realization that only 10-20% of the total end-user response time is spent getting the HTML document to the browser. You need to focus on...

Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-13
famfamfam.com UK web developer Mark James offers a free, extensive set of mini icons for a variety of media and action types. (tags: toread webdesign icons free via:sitepoint) Helpful Hyperlinks with JavaScript | Sitepoint Toby Somerville writes, "There you...

Posted Saturday, December 13, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-10
Times Widgets - Build Your Own Times Widget | The New York Times Nifty JS headline widget-generator from NYT (tags: nytimes tools onlinenews rss widget) Creating a multi-resolution favicon including transparency with the GIMP | Egressive (tags: toread webdesign...

Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-09
Pulitzer Prizes Broadened to Include Online-Only Publications Primarily Devoted to Original News Reporting | The Pulitzer Prizes "The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many text-based...

Posted Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-08
Monster Laptop Sleeve | Uncrate Adorably cute. "Handmade and available in four different colors, the case reminds us of a fanged cousin of cookie monster." (tags: shopping laptop via:mennyj) Tables: The Next Evolution in CSS Layout | Vitamin What's...

Posted Monday, December 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-06
How to Stay Alive in a Terrorized Hotel | The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg writes, "The taxi ride to the hotel is invariably more dangerous than the hotel itself. But: Here are six ways to minimize your chances - already...

Posted Saturday, December 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-05
Removing The Mystery From The Heart Shaped Bokeh Thing | DIYPhotography.net "One of the most popular posts here at DIYP is the Create Your Own Bokeh post - this is the one that teaches you how to make nice...

Posted Friday, December 5, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-03
The 'O' in Obama | Campaign Stops | NYTimes.com Steven Heller writes, "At the end of 2006, Mode, a motion design studio in Chicago, approached Sol Sender, a graphic designer, to create a logo for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign....

Posted Wednesday, December 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-12-02
Twist - see trends in twitter Measures the frequency of phrases on Twitter and displays a dynamic (and embeddable) chart of your chosen phrases' frequency over the past 7 or 30 days. (tags: twitter tools statistics language search via:megsmith)...

Posted Tuesday, December 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Acorn Watchers Wonder What Happened to Crop | washingtonpost.com "Across the region naturalists notice an almost total absence of acorns and hickory nuts, causing havoc for squirrels." (tags: animals washingtondc environment) Giant Geese & Ducks | Roadside Architecture Buildings...

Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Building the data desk: lessons from the L.A. Times | Online Journalism Review Eric Ulken writes: "In this post, I'll try to squeeze some wisdom out of the lessons we learned in the process of assembling the Times' Data...

Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-11-21
How to design like Barack Obama: control, consistency and change. Sean Blanda deconstructs Obama's design themes. (tags: webdesign design politics election20008 branding via:reinventing) fairfax avenue: a jon brion resource. Archive of bootlegged Jon Brion concerts (tags: music) Why the...

Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Dishwasher in Chief | Slate Magazine John Dickerson writes, "In Barack Obama's first interview since winning the election, he made an odd but revealing confession: He found it soothing, he said, to do the dishes. I knew exactly what...

Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-11-18
Otto Mario Batali pizzeria in NYC. And I hear good things about the gelato. (tags: restaurant nyc italian gelato todo) Onion Nation: A Look Inside the Offices of 'The Onion' | washingtonpost.com "If its absurdist twists and wicked parodies...

Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

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2008 Election Maps | Kottke.org Jason Kottke writes, "Most media outlets covering the 2008 US Presidential Election used the familar red/blue map to track the progress of the race as results from the polls rolled in Tueday evening. Here...

Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Phoenix Mars Lander: This is My Farewell Transmission From Mars | Gizmodo "If you are reading this, then my mission is probably over. This final entry is one that I asked be posted after my mission team announces they’ve...

Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Why Twitter shouldn't creep you out: An evaluation of Twitter culture and relationship building | HubSpot "By meeting people in such a casual, open atmosphere where people speak freely about everyday things, complain unanimously and argue openly, Twitter becomes...

Posted Sunday, November 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-31
Can a President Tame the Business Cycle? | NYTimes.com Interesting interactive graphic: "Today, Americans save less and earn a lower minimum wage -- in real, or inflation-adjusted, terms -- than at nearly any other time since 1950. Can voters...

Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Digital media: The end of the story - as we know it | Media | The Guardian Jeff Jarvis writes, "In the crush of news around the financial crisis -- and its ensuing overdose of commentary and confusion --...

Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 | Comments (1)

links for 2008-10-29
Flickr: The The End Pool Photo collection of movie end title screens. (tags: photography typography movies flickr via:kvinh) ...

Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-28
At Pundit School, Learning to Smile and Interrupt | NYTimes.com "Journalists once had to achieve a certain gravitas before appearing on television as a political expert, but not anymore." (tags: television journalism politics) ...

Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-27
YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos | Tech Crunch (tags: video youtube howto via:reinventing) Election Equipment 2008 | VerifiedVoting.org "VerifiedVoting.org compiled information on what types of election equipment is used across the nation. Paper ballots, punch cards, mechanical levers,...

Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-25
If the World Could Vote | ForeignPolicy.com Nice Flash display of poll results from around the world of how citizens of other countries hope the U.S. presidential election will go. (tags: election2008 maps world politics polling via:bpershing) ...

Posted Saturday, October 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-21
Market Is Central to Lancaster's Charm | washingtonpost.com Sounds like a daytrip to me: "Lancaster, Pa.'s Central Market has operated on its downtown site since the 1730s." (tags: travel pennsylvania shopping food todo) ...

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Pirates, the Best Target Audience | Brand New Beautifully designed pirate branding for the pirate storefront at the 826 Valencia writing center. (tags: branding design illustration) Fake Is Good: The People Behind Twitter’s Candidate Parodies | Capital Comment Blog...

Posted Saturday, October 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Q&A: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise | Wired "John Hodgman is an expert. At everything. (OK, maybe not sports.) But where he really excels is in creating the illusion of expertise -- and not letting pesky...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-11
Jenny Beorkrem Speaks Up | Speak Up "Jenny Beorkrem left a cushy nine to five design job after her typographic city posters became an online phenomenon by showcasing her work at Ork Posters. Her designs, sold to the rich...

Posted Saturday, October 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-10
Critter City | washingtonpost.com "A century ago, squirrels were rare in D.C. How did they come to rule the capital?" (tags: animals washingtondc toread) ...

Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-09
Evolution of Logos | Best Ad (tags: logos branding via:vsl) The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub | Rolling Stone 2000 profile of John McCain by David Foster Wallace: "But there's something underneath politics in the way you have...

Posted Thursday, October 9, 2008 | Comments (2)

links for 2008-10-08
The Soup Cans Interview: Will Lyman | Soup Cans "The great Will Lyman has narrated 'Frontline,' the bestest show on PBS, for the last 25 years. Lyman was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to...

Posted Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-07
East Valley Tribune cuts staff by 40%, becomes a four days a week freebie | Romenesko (tags: journalism newspapers arizona) Colbert -- And His Wife -- Rock The New Yorker Fest | Eat the Press | The Huffington Post...

Posted Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Map of the Day | National Geographic Magazine "Browse through history using our daily maps of historical news events and milestones." (tags: maps history) ...

Posted Monday, October 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-02
10th Birthday | Google Impressive HTML-based timeline. (tags: webdesign interface javascript interactive google) Four bars? The disconnect between bars and cell signal | Ars Technica "The topic of bars and signal strength has recently come to a head with...

Posted Thursday, October 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-10-01
Colbert for President | Marvel.com News "Citizens of the Marvel Universe depicted on the pages of recent and upcoming Marvel comics have been diligently wearing "Colbert '08" t-shirts, seeing "Colbert '08" campaign signs and more!" (tags: comics stephencolbert election2008)...

Posted Wednesday, October 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-27
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: Mock the Vote | Entertainment Weekly "With just five weeks left until Election Day, our favorite pundits discuss the power of Sarah Palin, why TV news is about as credible as Muzak, and whether...

Posted Saturday, September 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Toms Essay | Measure for Measure | New York Times "The curious legend of 'Tom's Diner' -- how an a capella ditty became a hit single and, eventually, a key component in the development of the MP3." (tags: music...

Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-24
Arts Orgs Trying to 'Turn On' Dupont Underground | DCist "The venue would be used for experimental artists and curators to hold shows they may not otherwise find space for, for 'mid-size' traveling exhibitions that can't find a home...

Posted Thursday, September 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-22
'Obey' Street Artist Churns Out 'Hope' for Obama | The Underwire | Wired.com "If you've been to any major U.S. city recently, you may have spotted a two-tone print of presidential candidate Barack Obama emblazoned with the word 'Hope'...

Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-18
Attack of the Super-Strength Cyborg Penguins | Danger Room | Wired.com "Military researchers are building mechanical suits that provide superstrength and inhuman endurance. Next up: an undersea exoskeleton that turns the wearer into a giant, cyborg penguin." (tags: penguins...

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-16
Everymoment Now : Obama Vs. McCain : Context and Scope to the 2008 US General Election Interesting news aggregator that displays the comparative amount of coverage each candidate has gotten per day. Nicely presented. (tags: visualization journalism election2008 via:rwalker)...

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-08
Not Necessarily the News | PRINT Magazine "Have fake news graphics taken over the role of the political cartoon? We report. You decide." (tags: dailyshow stephencolbert design television satire journalism via:dari) Lushpad Classifieds site for mid-century modern furniture. There...

Posted Monday, September 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-05
2008 Presidential Electoral Vote Animation Animated map of 2008 Electoral College predictions, June 4 - present. (tags: election2008 maps politics) Vetting 'Vet' | Slate Magazine "Where does the expression 'to vet' come from? It's a figurative contraction of 'veterinarian.'...

Posted Friday, September 5, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-04
Move Aside, Frozen Custard, and Make Room for Gelato | NYTimes.com "Gelato, that smooth Italian ice cream, seems to be catching on in the U.S. And small-business owners are taking notice." (tags: dessert icecream food business) Is It So...

Posted Thursday, September 4, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The Beginning of the Road | washingtonpost.com High-tech computer wizardry and good old-fashioned historical sleuthing are re-creating the lost world of Washington's origins (tags: washingtondc history maps toread) ...

Posted Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-01
Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? | NYTimes.com "'The Daily Show' resonates not only because it is wickedly funny but also because its keen sense of the absurd is perfectly attuned to an era in which...

Posted Monday, September 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-31
Nintendo Wii: Operate Your Computer with Wii Controllers | Lifehacker "Nintendo doesn't exactly advertise it, but the remotes for the Wii gaming console -- including the balance board that comes with Wii Fit -- have Bluetooth capabilities. That means...

Posted Sunday, August 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-30
TweenLite (AS3) - A Lightweight (3K) and FAST Tweening Engine | GreenSock (tags: flash actionscript webdev via:bhall) TweenFilterLite (AS3 Version) | GreenSock "TweenFilterLite extends the extremely lightweight (about 3k), powerful TweenLite class, adding the ability to tween filters (like...

Posted Saturday, August 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-28
Former Virginia Governor's Comment On Science At Convention Lights Up Twitter | Threat Level | Wired.com "It didn't ignite the crowd at the Pepsi Center in Denver Tuesday night in the same way as Hillary Clinton's speech did, but...

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-27
AT&T Launches New Data Plans for iPhone Users Roaming Abroad | Bits | New York Times Bleh ... and I'm still peeved about having to pay extra for text messaging, when I already pay for unlimited data. With the...

Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-25
2008's 'What ifs...' | Boston.com "Plot your own demographic scenarios for the Electoral College results in 2008 - how race, gender and religion could change the outcome." (tags: election2008 maps politics flash interactive) ...

Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-22
Colin Meloy- Banter + New song, Valerie Plame | YouTube The song in question, from a spring performance at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas. (tags: music video politics) The Decemberists To Release 'Amorous' Rock Song Tribute to Valerie...

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-21
It's official: "The Daily Show" really is "the most important television program EVER" | TV Barn Interesting observation from Aaron Barnhart: "Drill down into that [Pew] report and you'll see evidence that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are actually...

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-19
EveryBlock Washington: Washington local news and public records "Enter any Washington address for fresh updates of nearby crimes, calls for city services, media coverage and more." (tags: news journalism onlinenews statistics washingtondc via:holovaty) ...

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Phelps' Miracle Finish - Phelps Frame-By-Frame - Photos - SI.com A frame-by-frame look at Michael Phelps's finish in the 100-meter butterfly. (tags: olympics sports photography via:slateolympics) King penguin receives Norwegian knighthood | azcentral.com "The knighthood ceremony began Friday morning...

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-15
Tiny Art Director Funny illustration blog in which an illustrator solicits commissions and feedback from his three-year-old daughter. (tags: illustration children animals humor via:acaumont) The Complete Guide for You to Become an Almighty jQuery Developer | Effectize "Have you...

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-09 [delicious.com]
Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe | CHOW "[S]trawberry is the classic American ice cream flavor, and it's most sought after in the spring and summer months when fresh strawberries are at their peak. Preserve that sweet, floral taste by...

Posted Saturday, August 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-04 [delicious.com]
Tutorial: Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Modem | Gadget Lab | Wired.com "Here at Wired.com a few of us were excited about turning our iPhones into wireless modems with the $10 NetShare application -- but none of us...

Posted Monday, August 4, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-08-02
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit Follow-up to 'Helvetica' "...about industrial design. It's a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets ... It's about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension,...

Posted Saturday, August 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-30
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Absurdly Implausible Excess | NYTimes.com "Has the phrase 'jump the shark' jumped the shark? Or, more to the point, should we be saying that it has 'nuked the fridge'?" (tags: movies language) 10...

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-26
In Chicago, a Lake Shore Dive | washingtonpost.com "Yes, for a city awfully windy about its charms, Chicago doesn't crow too much about the miles of sandy beaches on its beloved Lake Michigan, which is known for changing colors...

Posted Saturday, July 26, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-23
Oh, the colours! | Design*Sponge Walks through how to use a feature on the site ColourLovers.com that automatically creates a color palette based on a photo you provide. (tags: color design tools howto) Transcript of "Weathering the Storm" (July...

Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-22
Leading in Turbulent Times | Advertising Age "How fast, and how treacherous, are the currents sweeping over The New York Times? This September, its home page ... will start automatically displaying links to competitors' takes on big news. That's...

Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-21
Census Atlas of the United States | U.S. Census Bureau "A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of...

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-19
Anthony Bourdain in D.C. for 'No Reservations' | DCist (tags: food television washingtondc via:dari) For Campaign Coverage, Web Too Often an Afterthought | Nieman Reports (tags: politics election2008 washpost journalism onlinenews via:rwalker toread) Sketchy Imagery | The Root Dayo...

Posted Saturday, July 19, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-18
The WSJ's Sketches of Pain | CJR "Even The Wall Street Journal’s famed stipple portraits (known internally as 'hedcuts') aren’t immune from the bummer that is the credit crisis." (tags: business illustration journalism) ...

Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-17
Collection: Search Patterns | Flickr Peter Morville's collection of design pattern screenshots (tags: designpatterns webdesign ia research usability) The Last Media Tycoon | Portfolio "Seven years after the death of legendary Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, her 42-year-old granddaughter...

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-16
Improved Flash Indexing | Google Webmaster Central Blog Google will index text w/in a Flash file, BUT "[if] your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but...

Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-15
http://Work life creeping into personal life? Try a battery-only weekend | Unclutterer Erin writes, "For the duration of the month, I’m going to have battery-powered laptop weekends ... I hope that this process helps me to better prioritize my...

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-12
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Popular and electoral vote totals for every U.S. presidential election, dating back to Washington. (tags: history campaign data politics toread via:nvk) ...

Posted Saturday, July 12, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-11
The 'Fake' Steve Jobs Is Giving Up Parody Blog | NYTimes.com "Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist who wrote the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for the last two years, is moving on with his professional...

Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

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...

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 | Comments (1)

links for 2008-07-09
CapitolWords.org "For every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words displays the most frequently used word in the Congressional Record." (tags: government congress language) ...

Posted Wednesday, July 9, 2008 | Comments (1)

links for 2008-07-08
The Changing Face of American Catholics | The New York Times Nice cartogram / timeline of changing population densities. (tags: catholic flash interactive maps nytimes religion journalism onlinenews via:nvk) Washington Post Names Marcus Brauchli Executive Editor | washingtonpost.com "Marcus...

Posted Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-07
The Gainful Way to Use a Sabbatical | New York Times "You like your job and want to keep it, but you could use a break that's longer than a vacation. In academia, professors routinely take sabbaticals in order...

Posted Monday, July 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-06
Everybody Take a Seat | Smithsonian Magazine Nice feature on the seemingly ubiquitous white plastic lawn chair from July 2004. (tags: furniture culture) Kilroy Was Here | Smithsonian Magazine "En route to Vietnam in the 1960s, American G.I.s recorded...

Posted Sunday, July 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-03
Slate's "Choose Your Own Running Mate" Game | Slate Magazine Nice take on a "pick your vice president" game. (tags: election2008 politics campaign interactive onlinenews) Five Spots for a Weekend in the Great Outdoors -- Car Optional | washingtonpost.com Easily...

Posted Thursday, July 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-07-02
Twitter Fail whale... a 3D sculpture from the MAKE Flickr photo pool | MAKE Sculpted recreation of the whale illustration that comes up when Twitter is down. Hilarious. (tags: twitter art illustration) ...

Posted Wednesday, July 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-28
SWX: SWF Data Format Alternative, supposedly lighter-weight method of loading/processing data in Flash. (tags: flash actionscript webdev xml toread) ...

Posted Saturday, June 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-27
New-Media Focus Splits Associated Press Members | WSJ.com "With readers and advertisers migrating away from news on printed paper and toward cable TV and the Web, the AP is devoting more of its resources to producing content for other...

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-25
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right Nice collection of analysis / graphics / projections about the 2008 presidential election. (tags: election2008 statistics) NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world "The NNDB Mapper allows you to explore NNDB visually by graphing the...

Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-23
Indiana Jones and the Fonts on the Maps | Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook "For the most part, the type usage in each of the movies is correct for the period depicted. With one exception: The maps used in...

Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-18
Typos a la Carte, Ever A Specialty of the House | washingtonpost.com "In my fantasy, I enter a restaurant, order and sweetly ask the waiter if I can 'hold on to the menu' during dinner. Then, using a distinctive...

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-05
Northern Virginia Operational Area | Dominion Power Map of power outages in Northern Virginia. (tags: power virginia home maps) Death March | Portfolio.com "Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor is hoping to wrest control of paid death notices from the newspaper...

Posted Thursday, June 5, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-04
Design Stencils | Yahoo! Design Pattern Library Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG). (tags: ia interface webdesign tools webdev designpatterns yahoo via:ssampsel) ...

Posted Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-03
Webmonkey | Welcome_to_the_All_New_Webmonkey "We have also republished the bulk of Webmonkey’s vast library of tutorials and reference guides on a wiki. With very few exceptions, every page in the tutorials, reference and code library sections of the site is...

Posted Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-06-02
Restaurant Pies That Are Hard to Top | washingtonpost.com "Ask where to eat pizza in town, and just about everyone will recommend 2 Amys or Pizzeria Paradiso. Good choices, both. But the Washington pizza universe has other bright stars....

Posted Monday, June 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-31
The Colbert "Bump" and Democratic Fundraising | NPR "Comedian Stephen Colbert ... has always claimed that an appearance on his show, The Colbert Report, results in a "bump" in popularity or book sales for that particular individuals ... But...

Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-30
Shan Carter & Gabriel Dance | IT Conversations "Shan Carter and Gabriel Dance create interactive graphics and multimedia for the New York Times ... Jon Udell asks them to explain how some of their favorite projects were done, and...

Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-28
Veepstakes 2008 | Decision '08 | MSNBC.com Bracket game to let users pick who will become the Republican vice presidential nominee. (tags: games election2008 politics onlinenews) The Venture Bros. - The Amazing Shirt of the Week Club I'm such...

Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-26
Statshot: What Are We Twittering? | The Onion (tags: humor infographics twitter) Convention Rules to Live By | washingtonpost.com "[T]he House and Senate ethics committees ... they have been cranking out memos (including a new one last week) on...

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-25
Typo personalities | chicagotribune.com "Armed with Sharpies, erasers and righteous indignation, two apostles of the apostrophe make it their crusade to rid the world of bad signs" (tags: typography language design via:jhiggins) The Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL) (tags:...

Posted Sunday, May 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-22
How to get an Audio CD to show in Audiobooks on iTunes | Pewari's Prattle (tags: itunes books howto) ...

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 | Comments (1)

links for 2008-05-19
Cubescape - Your own digital landscape "Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!" (tags: design architecture animation games todo...

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-16
Building Rage | New York Times "Much has been written about contractors from hell, but comparatively little attention is paid to the homeowner from hell, who can make contractors crazy." (tags: homeimprovement business) ...

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-15
Action Ohio: Neil Kleid Finds Action And Superheroes In Ohio | io9 "What if superheroes -- in fact, the entire comic book industry as we know it today -- were just a government cover-up to hide the existence of...

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-14
YOUNGME - NOWME | ColorWars2008 Contest: Find a childhood photo of yourself and "recreate that pose and picture as best you can with the current you." (tags: photography via:vsl) Zebra Striping: Does It Really Help? | A List Apart...

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-07
Information Design Patterns (tags: visualization reference via:pharkins toread) ...

Posted Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-03
Phrasefinders - iPhrasefinders for your iPod | Collins Language "Collins iPod phrasebooks contain approximately 500 travel phrases, in categories like accommodation, business travel and emergencies. Navigate quickly to the translation you need – from, 'I'll have the fish, please',...

Posted Saturday, May 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-05-02
Time to Hit The Brakes On That Cliche | washingtonpost.com "Hardly a week goes by without someone reviving *the* cliche of the 2008 campaign -- that a former ally of a candidate has been thrown under a bus." (tags:...

Posted Friday, May 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-30
It's Funny How Funny Just the Facts Can Be | washingtonpost.com "Chodikoff's job is to dig through the vast quarry of TV news footage to find the nuggets that form [The Daily Show's] pointed, often eye-opening 'reporting.' In a...

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-29
How to shift iTunes libraries | Macworld "Steps for coalescing your music collection on a roomier hard drive" (tags: itunes music apple howto) Adobe discontinues GoLive | Macworld Unsurprising: Adobe "has ceased development and sales of GoLive" in favor...

Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-28
Sprint: Iredell | Superfad A bit overlong, but this commercial / case study is nicely animated. (tags: advertising animation video via:theskinny) What Does a President Really Do All Day? | washingtonpost.com "Presidential campaigns glancingly deal with the institution of...

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-26
Country Codes of the World | byte level research "The Country Codes of the World map includes 245 country codes, which encompasses all United Nations countries as well as numerous islands and territories. Each two-digit code is aligned over...

Posted Saturday, April 26, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-24
McCains Optimum Look | Campaign Stops | New York Times "What does Optima say about John McCain? And should this, or any, candidate be judged by a typeface?" (tags: typography design johnmccain election2008) ...

Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-23
Preparing Source Video for Flash Video: Part 1 - Converting MPEG Files | Community MX (tags: flash video howto) America's Most Sinful Cities | Forbes.com "For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for...

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-22
Caffeine in Food | Energy Fiend "A complete list of caffeine in mints, chocolates, and other assorted candies and sweet things." (tags: food caffeine via:ssampsel) The Caffeine Database | Energy Fiend "The most complete list of beverage caffeine content...

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-18
looks del.icio.us | Kunal Anand "[An] attempt to combine graphics design with programming. The concept is to see how users develop and sustain their tagging methodologies on del.icio.us." (tags: visualization) South Park: The Day the Internet Stood Still |...

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-17
Yearbook Project: Excelsior 1968 | RobotJohnny.com Illustrator John Martz redrew the headshots from his mother's 1968 high school yearbook as an exercise in cartooning / caricature. (tags: illustration comics via:davery) Exploring Fantasy Life and Finding a $4 Billion Franchise...

Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

links for 2008-04-15
Mapping Strategies: How Candidates Use Maps to Imply Electability | The Electoral Map (tags: maps election2008) Airline bankruptcies fallout: Credit cards may be harder to use | Upgrade: Travel Better "Generally, credit card vendors turn over revenue to airlines...

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Blank Is Like Blank: Analogies to Live By (tags: humor blogs writing via:swissmiss) Pilcrow & Capitulum | Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones "Like most punctuation, the paragraph mark (or pilcrow) has an exotic history." (tags: typography language history...

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

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On the Menu: Pinching Portions | washingtonpost.com "Pinched by soaring food costs on the one hand and a recession-fearing public on the other, the restaurant industry is getting crafty. Chefs are tinkering with recipes... Managers are using behavioral science...

Posted Sunday, April 13, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Running L8 But CU Soon. Luv, Mom | washingtonpost.com "Sprint Nextel said teens and adults ages 40 to 50 were the most active text-mesage users from June 2006 to June 2007. Of adults, mothers are driving the growth, the...

Posted Saturday, April 12, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Top 10 Ways to Sleep Smarter and Better | Lifehacker "There are lots of ways to beat insomnia, increase the quality of your sleep, and master the power nap. Today we've got our top 10 favorite sleep techniques, tips...

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Benedict Bobblehead on Metro? Not So Fast | Pope Watch | washingtonpost.com "It seemed like a great marketing campaign to some at Metro: a Pope Benedict XVI bobblehead riding the train. That is, until church officials saw it." (tags:...

Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

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ASU engineers study Valley's heat island | azcentral.com "Fernando and his Arizona State University engineering colleagues are trying more exactly than ever to define the heat-trapping effect that in the summer months turns much of the Valley from a...

Posted Sunday, April 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Links that stink on news sites | By Jack Shafer | Slate Magazine "The real sin here is how extraneous links induce link shyness: When the time comes that the reader will benefit from clicking on a link, he'll...

Posted Saturday, April 5, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Tooth Regeneration May Replace Drill-and-Fill "A dental researcher is working on a technique for regenerating the minerals in teeth -- which may eliminate the need for patching cavities with metal fillings." (tags: health medicine science via:gizmodo) Just Go to...

Posted Friday, April 4, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy | Special Exhibitions | The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it will reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to...

Posted Thursday, April 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Rail to Reel | washingtonpost.com "Directors love the distinctive look of Washington's subway ... But filmmakers hate Metro's rules: No eating, drinking or running. No jumping over fare gates. No jumping over fare gates. No shooting bad guys on...

Posted Wednesday, April 2, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Fold-Ins, Past and Present | The New York Times AWESOME. "Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form." (tags: satire comics flash interactive magazine inspiration illustration politics via:davery) Wiki Woman: The battle...

Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

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When in Rome: engineering the Firefox 3 user experience | Ars Technica Alex Faaborg of Mozilla shares "some insights about the interface design process and talked about some of Mozilla's goals for refining the look and feel of the...

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The Ten Tastiest Food Photography Tips | Photojojo (tags: photography food howto) Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery | Filament Group, Inc. (tags: visualization javascript html data howto toread via:davery) ...

Posted Sunday, March 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Flip Flip your text upside-down. It's freaking me out. (tags: html javascript humor tools typography via:pewari) Creator's Family Reclaims the Rights to Superman | New York Times "A federal judge ... ruled that the heirs of Jerome Siegel --...

Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Follow Twitter Conversations | Quotably Displays Twitter coversations as easy-to-follow threads. Not always up-to-date (it's still not showing my latest Twitter update from an hour ago, for example), but a nice alternate approach to looking at Twitter. (tags: twitter...

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Mushroom Lasagna Bolognese Recipe | Recipe database | washingtonpost.com (tags: food recipe dinner vegetarian) The 50th Anniversary of the Peace Symbol | CBS News Sunday Morning "We all know the Peace Symbol, which Americans of a certain age associate...

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Q&A With The Daily Show's John Oliver | The Latest Word | Westword (tags: dailyshow interview entertainment television) Diego Goldberg :: The Arrow of Time "On June 17, every year, the family goes through a private ritual: we photograph...

Posted Sunday, March 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Google Visualization API - Google Code "The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations." (tags: google visualization statistics tools infographics toread) kris's color stripes...

Posted Saturday, March 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The Fibbing Point | Slate Magazine "Separating bunk from fact in Malcolm Gladwell's performance at a New York storytelling forum." (tags: journalism washpost malcolmgladwell humor thisamericanlife via:rpongsaj) ...

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Stimulus payment mailing schedule based on Social Security numbers | Yahoo! Finance "More than 130 million stimulus payments will be sent out starting May 2, on a staggered schedule based on the last two digits of taxpayers' Social Security...

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 | Comments (0)

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NCAA uniform bracket | ESPN Page 2 "Hate that Trajan font that Kansas imposed on all their teams this year? Me too, and that's why they're going down -- down! -- to the snappily attired Portland State in the...

Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Lemon-Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe | Epicurious.com These gorgeous cupcakes have a sweet surprise inside: They're filled with a dollop of raspberry jam. Half of the cupcakes have a pale yellow lemon glaze; the rest are topped with a pink raspberry-lemon...

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones A Font Tip for Leopard Users (tags: apple osx typography via:37signals) ...

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Spoilers: In Defense of the American Watercooler | Vulture | New York Magazine In this age of DVRs and TV shows on DVD, what's the proper etiquette for discussing what you saw on television without "spoiling" it for folks...

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

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AOL Brings Out the Penguins to Explain Ad Targeting | Bits | New York Times Blog "In a few weeks, AOL plans to introduce an ad campaign featuring a penguin to educate its users on ad targeting. (Yes, a...

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The Fake News Is All I Need | Shirts | Glarkware I could probably never wear this shirt to work, but it makes me laugh all the same. (tags: shopping clothing journalism dailyshow humor) BoltBus New bus line between...

Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The Ultimate Guide to Designing with Black | Blog.SpoonGraphics Accounting for the color black in print graphics sounds almost as complicated as the U.S. delegate selection process. (tags: design howto color via:davery) Swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls...

Posted Saturday, March 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Why the Obama "Brand" Is Working | Stumper | newsweek.com Q&A with Michael Bierut. "Reinforced with a coherent, comprehensive program of fonts, logos, slogans and web design, Obama is ... marketed like a high-end consumer brand." (tags: branding politics...

Posted Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Color Fields Colr Pickr Find Flickr photos that correspond to a given color. (tags: color photography flickr tools search via:dari) Geotag Icon Project "The Geotag Icon is intended as a web 'standard' icon for identifying geotagged content to humans."...

Posted Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Overnight With Frank Lloyd Wright | New York Times "In half a dozen Wright houses, paying guests can move in for a weekend or a few days and pretend to be home." (tags: architecture travel housing) How to recreate...

Posted Sunday, March 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

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City Neighborhood Posters | Ork Posters Classy typographic neighborhood map of Chicago. "No need for a fire, this red ochre color will warm up the room. The light gray lines in the background reference the Chicago street grid." (tags:...

Posted Saturday, March 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

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'Washington Post' Site Will Get a Major Facelift | Editor and Publisher (tags: washpost webdesign onlinenews journalism design) Talk to the Newsroom: Steve Duenes | New York Times "Mr. Duenes manages the graphics department, a group of 30 journalists...

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Art-o-mat "Art-o-mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country." There's one at the Tenleytown Whole Foods. (tags: art business crafts shopping washingtondc)...

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

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2008 Primaries at the Local Level | Charleston.net Interactive map of precinct-level primary results around Charleston, S.C. (tags: election2008 charlestonsc onlinenews maps flash via:nvk) Texas Democratic Primary Delegate Calculator | Lone Star Project The Texas Democratic Primary is is...

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Lessig wants to build a "creative commons in Congress" | Ars Technica "Stanford legal theorist Lawrence Lessig isn't throwing his hat into the ring quite yet, but the renowned cyberlawyer has announced that he is seriously considering a run...

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

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A Rotten Way to Pick a President | washingtonpost.com "The old ways were unfair and autocratic. But the new ones have grave problems, too." (tags: politics election2008 toread) The Supervisor, the Champion, and the Promoter | Slate Magazine "What...

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

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At last, a fish-shaped hard boiled egg mold | Slashfood "These brightly colored plastic contraptions will turn your boring old oval egg into a cartoon fish, star, ghost or, of course, Hello Kitty. Simply drop in a freshly boiled...

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | Comments (2)

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matchbox labels - a photoset on Flickr "Matchbox labels from around the world but the majority are Eastern European from the 1950s and 60s." (tags: illustration art world travel europe via:37signals) Cookie Monster: A Sweet, Sensual Id, Unfiltered |...

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Beyond Red, White and Blue | Campaign Stops | New York Times Steven Heller writes, "...artists have been inspired by particular candidates for years and have designed posters that break the mold not only in terms of color and...

Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Graphic Novels: A Visual Language | The New York Times Audio slideshow of interviews with Seth, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Joe Sacco and Chester Brown about their craft. (tags: comics chrisware art illustration) ...

Posted Saturday, February 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre (tags: illustration design typography humor vintage via:davery) ...

Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Start Flexing Those Marshmallow Muscles: It's Contest Time! | washingtonpost.com Call for entries for the Post's second annual Peeps Diorama Contest. Last year's were hilarious. Entries are due March 2. (tags: awards candy washpost humor crafts) ...

Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The Evolution of Tech Companies' Logos | Neatorama (tags: branding logos desin history via:core77 apple google adobe) John Alvin, Designer of Memorable Film Posters, Is Dead at 59 | New York Times "Mr. Alvin created memorable images for movie...

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 | Comments (0)

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CNN Hits The Wall for the Election | washingtonpost.com "Interactive Gizmo Maps Results in Leaps and Bounds" (tags: cnn maps politics statistics election2008 journalism visualization) A Chat with the Designer of the Google Logo | WebProNews "Ruth Kedar of...

Posted Wednesday, February 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

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What font says 'Change'? | The Boston Globe Type designers decode the presidential candidates: "If we were to predict the results based on typography and design, we would pick McCain and Obama." (tags: typography design barackobama election2008 branding campaign...

Posted Sunday, February 3, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Republican Delegate Allocation | The Green Papers Total Republican delegates (pledged and unpledged), by state (tags: election2008 republicans via:rwalker) Democratic Delegate Vote Allocation | The Green Papers Total Democratic delegates (pledged and unpledged), by state (tags: election2008 democrats via:rwalker)...

Posted Friday, February 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Be Kind Rewind: Be Kind Rewind Opens a Hole in the Space-Time Continuum | io9 Michel Gondry remakes the trailer for his new movie, starring himself. It's so meta my head is about to explode. (tags: movies video via:dnelson)...

Posted Thursday, January 31, 2008 | Comments (0)

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TweetStats :: Graphin' Your Stats Look up usage statistics for individual Twitter users. (tags: twitter statistics tools visualization via:bcompton) ...

Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Florida Counties Maps Homepage aside, this site has some really nice maps of Florida's counties. (tags: maps reference florida) Robert J. Lang: The Art and Science of Paper Folding | Apple "One of the world's foremost artists in origami...

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Techie dishes on Google's grub | Los Angeles Times "At a firm that fortifies staffers with free food, Thunder Parley's opinion sends them scurrying to find the best gourmet fare." (tags: food google) Hawaii on a Dime | New...

Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Clearly, Some Are Different | washingtonpost.com "Two of Washington's airports -- Dulles and Reagan National -- will soon be part of the federal government's Registered Traveler program, which offers passengers the happy prospect of getting through security lines faster,...

Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Weekend: D.C. By the Dozen | washingtonpost.com "Let's make this the year you do all the fun stuff you've been meaning to do around Washington. The museum that has been on your list, that garden people keep telling you...

Posted Saturday, January 26, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Old Music Tuesdays: The Lust for Life Beat | All Things Considered | NPR Musings on the popularity (and recurrence) of the "Lust for Life" drumbeat / bass riff. (tags: music) ...

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Designing at the speed of news | Alpha Channel | msnbc.com An MSNBC designer talks about changes to the homepage design over the course of Iowa caucus night. Includes a neat animation showing the changes. (tags: webdesign onlinenews journalism...

Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Wii Fit | Nintendo E3 2007 OMG. I WANT. Only available in Asia right now, it seems. (tags: wii exercise games shopping sports via:rpongsaj) Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps | New York Times "Reporters are using instant messages...

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 | Comments (4)

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'Cloverfield' Reality Check: New York Subway Edition | Vulture | New York Magazine "[T]he movie's core group of characters make their way up the pitch-black 6 train tracks from Spring and Lafayette to 59th and Lex ... [T]heir trip...

Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Design Police | Bring bad design to justice. "Stickers" for pointing out crimes against good design. (tags: design humor via:pcompton) Video: An American Parkour Pioneer | washingtonpost.com "Mark Toorock was a self-described 'spaz' when he was growing up. But...

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The Bugle | Podcasts | Times Online A weekly satirical news/politics podcast by John Oliver (of The Daily Show) and Andy Zaltzman for the Times of London. (tags: humor dailyshow satire politics podcasting) ...

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Michael Bierut Talks Typography with 'The Atlantic' | Pentagram "In a video interview with The Atlantic, Michael Bierut talks about typography, including Stanley Kubrick's favorite font, the cover design of The Catcher in the Rye, and the link between...

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 | Comments (0)

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The GOP Primary Field in Buffy Villains | Cogitamus "A guide to the GOP primary field, expressed in terms of the Buffy villains they most resemble." (tags: television humor buffy election2008 via:jhiggins) 10create_ - Infographics A nice collection of...

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Getting More Art For Your Buck | DCist A guide to the membership benefits at local art galleries. (tags: art museum washingtondc toread) Comedy Central Hosts Return to TV | New York Times "Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen...

Posted Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Traveling the Globe on a Single Ticket | New York Times "A trip around the world is no easy feat. Neither is booking the ticket. Some advice for going the distance." (tags: travel world airport toread todo) ...

Posted Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Photographing Christmas Lights | A Better Photograph (tags: photography howto christmas) How to Photograph the Holidays | Photojojo (tags: photography howto christmas) Street Food in Bangkok | New York Times "Looking for the best food in Bangkok? Follow the...

Posted Monday, January 7, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Baltimore's Aquarium: What a Dive! | washingtonpost.com "For $295, you can swim with the fishes (in a good way) at the National Aquarium in Baltimore." (tags: baltimore scuba) Google Charting Tool > Sparklines | style.org A simple charting interface...

Posted Friday, January 4, 2008 | Comments (0)

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As the Iowa Caucuses Near, This Guy Is A Hot Potato | washingtonpost.com "What's unusual -- okay, a little odd -- is for someone to have met almost all the candidates and taken photos of each one smiling with...

Posted Wednesday, January 2, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Year-End Review, With Yourself | Shifting Careers | New York Times Career coach Michael Melcher writes about his "exercise to help me to take stock of my past year as a precursor to doing actual goal-setting for next year."...

Posted Monday, December 31, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Political Dashboard | 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News Nice display of political "indicators" (polls, campaign finance, search popularity) for the presidential race. (tags: election2008 flash webdesign yahoo) Don't Fear Starbucks | Slate Magazine "Strange as it sounds, the...

Posted Saturday, December 29, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Problem With Chocolate | Well | New York Times "The very thing that makes chocolate good for you -- the antioxidants called flavanols -- also make chocolate taste bitter. As a result, confectionery makers often take out the...

Posted Thursday, December 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Exclamation or Expletive, OMG Is Omnipresent | washingtonpost.com "For many, the omnipresent phrase sounds like a sinful swipe at the Almighty. Or at least another iceberg of disrespect cracking away from the icecap of civility." (tags: language religion culture...

Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Sim Daltonism Sim Daltonism is a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X. It filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer and displays the result — as seen by a color blind person — in a floating...

Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Traveler IQ Challenge Surprisingly difficult geography quiz. I've thus far only been able to get as far as level 10. (tags: maps games world via:nvk) Monty Python plushies | Paizo (tags: wishlist toys humor montypython television via:annie) ...

Posted Sunday, December 16, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Noma Bar Illustrations | Metafilter A genius series of portrait illustrations (tags: illustration via:dnelson) ...

Posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Wash. Leads Metro Areas in Walkability | washingtonpost.com A new report from the Brookings Institution ranks the Washington region first among the country's major metropolitan areas in the number of "walkable places" per capita, thanks to changes in just...

Posted Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Graduate education: Preparing designers for jobs that don't exist (yet) | Adobe "In addition to being skillful manipulators of 2-, 3- and 4-dimensions, designers also need to be writers, filmmakers, engineers, MBAs, social theorists, cognitive scientists and so on....

Posted Monday, December 3, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos | TechCrunch "Have you ever watched a video with 100,000 views on YouTube and thought to yourself: 'How the hell did that video get so many views?' Chances are pretty good that...

Posted Sunday, December 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Tee Shirts | T-Shirts | Storyville (tags: clothing shopping) ...

Posted Saturday, December 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Pulling Their Punch Lines | washingtonpost.com "Thanks to the TV writers' strike, millions of citizens have been deprived (for 24 days now!) of their late-night dose of sarcasm and slashing wit, of irony and smart-aleck quips. No Letterman, no...

Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Onion | MySpace.com The Onion has the nicest-looking MySpace page I've ever seen. I realize that's not saying much, given how awful so many MySpace pages are, but still, it's really nice. (tags: theonion webdesign myspace) ...

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Tightening the Beltway, the Elite Shop Costco | New York Times Washington society folk shop at Costco. The horror. (tags: washingtondc food via:rpongsaj) Bono's Calling | washingtonpost.com "The Irish rocker has a mission: to fight poverty, and enlist the...

Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Baghdad Thanksgiving, 2003 | New York Times Annia Ciezadlo: "This Thanksgiving, I miss Baghdad and that brief moment when Iraqis and Americans could trade cooking tips." (tags: thanksgiving iraq food culture) ...

Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Doonesbury@Slate - Daily Dose Doonesbury on newspaper campaign blogs (namechecking the Post). (tags: campaign election2008 blogs onlinenews comics journalism politics washpost via:fishbowldc) ...

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Art of the Leak | Politico.com "In a town where information is currency and few opportunities exist for trading it aboveboard, it’s no surprise that a bustling black market has developed. And like all illicit markets, it has...

Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Project: Mac mini Cube | 123Macmini.com Fantastic-looking mod, turning an Apple Cube into a Mac Mini while still preserving the Cube's internal "cage." Way beyond my expertise, but inspiring. (Our Cube died this weekend.) (tags: apple hardware cube mod...

Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 | Comments (0)

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pikku | unique cloth + wares (tags: shopping paper design inspiration via:designsponge letterpress) John Nack on Adobe: Photoshop, as seen through Johnny Cash "I sometimes joke that looking at some parts of [Photoshop] is like counting the rings in...

Posted Saturday, November 17, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Type Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry | Design Observer "There were personal books, commercial books, literary and poetic books, serious and silly books, childrens books, how-to books, and everything in between. And there they were — virtually...

Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Busybodies, it turns out, help humans cooperate | US News and World Report "Social scientists call the behavior 'altruistic punishment': the willingness to step in and enforce societal norms even if doing so carries little chance of reward and...

Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Get Smart(er) | washingtonpost.com "You're no genius? Don't worry. You can still beef up your brain with a little effort." (tags: psychology) ...

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 | Comments (0)

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7 Nights of Bright Eyes (in as Many Colors) | New York Times The artist Andrew Kuo meticulously dissects indie rock and hip-hop records and shows and then transforms the data into complicated, brightly colored charts and diagrams. (tags:...

Posted Sunday, November 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk | washingtonpost.com "Sex. Money. Power. The Post's Dana Milbank takes us on a tour of Washington's seamier side." (tags: washingtondc politics) ...

Posted Saturday, November 10, 2007 | Comments (0)

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'L.A. Times' Redesigns Web Site -- Waves Print 'Flag' | Editor and Publisher Just weeks after changing the name of its Sunday magazine to include "Los Angeles Times" in the title, the paper has replaced its latimes.com Web site...

Posted Friday, November 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Sleevage » Album Cover Blog. Music, Art, Design. (tags: design music inspiration via:simplebits) ...

Posted Thursday, November 8, 2007 | Comments (0)

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credenza + sideboard guide | Design*Sponge (tags: furniture home shopping) ...

Posted Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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An On-Line Color Thesaurus | Hewlett-Packard (tags: color language design via:swissmiss) ...

Posted Monday, November 5, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Blasting the Myth of the Fold | Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design "The biggest lesson to be learned here is that if you use visual cues ... and compelling content, users will scroll to see all...

Posted Sunday, November 4, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Salt-roasting: It's white magic | Los Angeles Times Salt-roasting, essentially nothing more than baking something in a mound of salt, is a technique with ancient roots but a thoroughly modern result -- food that tastes clearly and intensely of...

Posted Thursday, November 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Seeing the Light of Day | washingtonpost.com Artificial illumination can affect more than your mental health. As Daylight Saving Time comes to an end, what happens to our internal clocks? (tags: health) The Superest - Who is the superest...

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 | Comments (0)

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CNN.com Relaunch Case Study | UX Week 2007 | Adaptive Path Lori Adams and Dermot Waters walk through the user-centered process undertaken in the CNN.com redesign project, including the early user research and analysis all the way through implementation...

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | Comments (0)

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What ever happened to free cell-phone games? | Slate Magazine Adios to Snake, Tetris and Bounce. (tags: games cellephones business) So You Want to Create a Font. Part 1 | i love typography So you’re a brilliant designer, a...

Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Broadband: What's All the Fuss About? | Pew Internet and American Life Project The fuss about broadband extends beyond access to information to active participation in the online commons as people with shared interests or problems gather at various...

Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Honesdale: Schrute Farms - Traveler Reviews - Schrute Farms delivers! - TripAdvisor "The architecture reminds one of a quaint Tuscan beet farm, and the natural aroma of the beets drifts into the bedrooms and makes you dream of simpler...

Posted Sunday, October 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map (tags: maps googlemaps reference tools via:dwillis) ...

Posted Saturday, October 20, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned | New York Times More sauce and less pasta can be viewed as a cardinal sin or as a moist, flavorful one-dish meal of vegetables with the distinctive, lovable chewiness of pasta. (tags:...

Posted Friday, October 19, 2007 | Comments (0)

links for 2007-10-18
Photoshop Smart Objects, smart but not always that smart | Veerle's blog An awesome tip for using Photoshop Smart Objects to handle frequently-repeated blocks of content in a design. (tags: photoshop design via:dnelson) A Cheap Vacation? You Can Bet...

Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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A Bunch of Ugly Little Trespassers | washingtonpost.com I used to live in a basement apartment that had the occasional camel cricket. Ughhhh ... It makes my skin crawl just to think of it. (tags: home environment) ...

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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33 Different Ways To Lace Shoes | Ian's Shoelace Site (tags: clothing reference fashion howto via:core77) Sellout Songs: The Moby Equation | washingtonpost.com The Moby Quotient, generated by the formula below, determines the degree to which artists besmirch their...

Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 | Comments (0)

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How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5 Minutes? | Just Say Hi I scored a 50 out of 91 (and cheated for the last 5 or so, looking at the source code of my blog). Surprisingly difficult....

Posted Thursday, October 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Taco Bell attempts to sell gringo tacos in Mexico get lost in translation | azcentral.com (tags: food mexican culture) Logo Study: Batman Part 1 | Todd's Blog A lengthy look at the logos of Batman from his creation to...

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Jesse Talks Shop with Khoi Vinh, Design Director, NYTimes.com | adaptive path (tags: journalism onlinenews design webdesign nytimes toread) ...

Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Could 'prehab' save showbiz teens? | Variety.com Nickelodeon has a policy of putting its actors through a program called "Nick 101" at the start of each season ... and discuss everything from what a "call time" means to how...

Posted Saturday, October 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Social networking | Geekipedia | Wired The social networking boom made Rupert Murdoch nervous enough to spend half a billion bucks on a startup. Here's the 411 on the most noteworthy narcissism enablers. (tags: socialnetwork humor myspace facebook via:swissmiss)...

Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Why Big Newspapers Applaud Some Declines in Circulation | New York Times Many big newspapers are cutting promotions and choosing smaller circulation numbers, hoping to lure advertisers with a more focused and engaged readership. (tags: newspapers journalism business advertising...

Posted Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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36 Hours in Asheville, N.C. | New York Times This year-round resort town, tucked between the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains, draws a funky mix of New Agers, fleece-clad mountain bikers, antiques lovers and old-time farmers. (tags: travel northcarolina...

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BRATS: Our Journey Home A documentary about military brats -- kids who grew up with a parent in the military (tags: military children family movies) ...

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''The Office'': Working Overtime | Entertainment Weekly "We've crashed 'The Office' party just in time. As the new season begins, the hit show is exploring awkward courtships, clandestine relationships, and a love like no other... Trust us" (tags: television...

Posted Saturday, September 29, 2007 | Comments (0)

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2007 Australian Federal Election | Google Australia Special Google Maps and iGoogle content relating to Australian politics. (tags: google politics journalism maps googlemaps toread australia via:rwalker) Unbearable Whiteness | Slate Magazine Essay about how director Wes Anderson mishandles issues...

Posted Friday, September 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Scranton, Making All the Dwight Moves | washingtonpost.com The writers often pepper their plotlines with references to real restaurants, shops and other sites around town, which has transformed the perception of this city as a weird Dwight Schrute-type of...

Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 | Comments (2)

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EarmarkWatch.org: Bringing Citizen Oversight to Congressional Spending Here's your chance to investigate earmarks -- those spending measures inserted by members of Congress into bills that direct taxpayer dollars to their pet projects ... Every earmark is different, and we...

Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Cancer Free at 33, but Weighing a Mastectomy | New York Times More young women are learning early that they are genetically prone to breast cancer, setting off a new type of family drama. (tags: health cancer breastcancer medicine)...

Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal | CNET News.com Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in...

Posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Study: Soccer Beats Jogging for Fitness | washingtonpost.com A friendly game of soccer works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging, new research shows. (tags: sports soccer exercise) ...

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New French Museum Embraces Architecture | New York Times At a low-key ceremony on Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France inaugurated La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris, which reopened after...

Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Tabs, Used Right: The 13 Usability Guidelines | Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox 13 design guidelines for tab controls are all followed by Yahoo Finance, but usability suffers somewhat due to AJAX overkill and difficult customization. (tags: usability interface yahoo webdesign)...

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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You Can't Sit and Lie On the Couch, Right? | washingtonpost.com The talk show couch is a wholly contrived setting -- as artificial as any sitcom soundstage -- masquerading as a public confessional. (tags: television politics dailyshow stephencolbert interview)...

Posted Monday, September 17, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Act One: D.C.'s New Young Blogging Elite - WSJ.com Profile of DCist editor Sommer Mathis. (tags: blogs washingtondc jobs writing journalism onlinenews via:fishbowldc) The Making of a Great Photography Website: Three Distinct Approaches | Layers Magazine (tags: webdesign photography...

Posted Friday, September 14, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Brooklyn Superhero Supply: 826 NYC | chinese_fashion's slideshow on Flickr Slideshow of an awesome-looking superhero supply store in Brooklyn. (tags: photography clothing comics fashion via:dari) ...

Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Call of Comic Books Reaches a New Level -- Cellphones | washingtonpost.com "Thunder Road" is the first comic book released in the United States exclusively via cellphone, part of a lineup of mobile comic books offered by Kansas...

Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Restorers' Art of the Invisible | New York Times The work unfolding within the curved white walls of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is as engrossing as the art displayed on them. (tags: architecture nyc museum toread) Design...

Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Echoing the Candidates' Words -- In Spanish | washingtonpost.com His is the voice of presidents, but tomorrow night in Miami -- after much study and meditation, an energy bar, almonds and water without ice -- Vincente J. de la...

Posted Sunday, September 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Picard for President | The Huffington Post (tags: humor television politics election2008 startrek via:tvsquad) Advertising - a photoset on Flickr A photoset of interesting food branding from the 1950s and 60s. (tags: branding illustration vintage food inspiration photography via:swissmiss)...

Posted Saturday, September 8, 2007 | Comments (0)

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When it comes to the ex, all is fair in love and Nintendo | GameDaily After a break-up, what do you do with your ex's Mii avatar on your Wii? (tags: wii relationships via:kalabird) Regional Differences in Costs and...

Posted Friday, September 7, 2007 | Comments (0)

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What We're Missing: Authentic Mexican Food | DCist Amen. I'll have to check out some of their suggestions here. (tags: restauraunt food mexican washingtondc todo) One reason your boss is so twitchy | 43 Folders "I think one of...

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Grief Camp Helps Children Cope with War Losses | NPR A powerful story about young kids learning to deal with the death of a parent in Iraq or Afghanistan. (tags: iraq war children death military via:alsmorningmeeting) Logged In and...

Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2007 | Comments (0)

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This Way to the Web, Print Designers! | Subtraction "Flash is wonderful, and I think it has its place. But I think it's absolutely the wrong way to start learning how to work on the Web..." Amen. (tags: education...

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Getting The Picture | washingtonpost.com When he was a photo-journalist, "wedding photographer" sounded like the punch line of a joke. Then he went soft and discovered that taking photographs of the most important moment in people's lives actually is...

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Wit & Wisdom: Jonathan Coulton | Express The saddest song in the world is called "Code Monkey," and it's by Jonathan Coulton. (tags: music) ...

Posted Saturday, September 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Comic-Con... 1982 | Drawn! Alan Light's photo set of San Diego Comic-Con 1982 is full candid shots of legends like Will Eisner, Milt Caniff, Burne Hogarth and Jack Kirby walking around like they're normal people. (tags: photography comics) Why...

Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Label Placement in Forms | UXmatters Eyetracking research by Matteo Penzo about different types of form design (left-aligned labels, top-aligned, right-aligned). (tags: research eyetracking usability webdesign webdev toread via:aneventapart) Copy Goes Here | Coudal Partners Funny short film about...

Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Minding the Meeting, or Your Computer? | New York Times When it comes to laptops in business meetings, a whole etiquette has formed around issues of passing electronic notes and Web surfing. (tags: business culture computer productivity via:swissmiss) Collection:...

Posted Tuesday, August 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Bathed in the Right Light | washingtonpost.com There's a star system that decides what does and doesn't glow in the Washington night. (tags: washingtondc architecture photography toread) "We have one flak jacket that all of the correspondents share." |...

Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Behance :: Action Method Another personal productivity system (a la GTD), but aimed at creative-types. (tags: design gtd business productivity toread via:swissmiss) Weights and Measures: The rest of the world uses the metric system | Good Magazine Graphic: A...

Posted Sunday, August 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Coffee Tea or Me: Pantone Mug Helps You Make the Perfect Brew | Gizmodo (tags: design color food via:nvk) ...

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My beloved newspaper has been reduced to serving already chewed news. | By Jack Shafer | Slate Magazine (tags: newspapers onlinenews journalism washpost via:fishbowldc) Everything I Know About Design I Learned from The Sopranos | Design Observer (tags: television...

Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 | Comments (0)

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FZip - côdeazur brasil lab FZip is an Actionscript 3 class library to load standard ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files. (tags: actionscript flash toread) The Weather's Fine, Hence the Invasion from Arizona | New York Times The emergency...

Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Evite Promises Overhaul | PC World The popular but clunky the online invitation site plans an update that includes mobile support. (tags: socialnetwork community relationships tools software) ...

Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Apple Takes a Step Back With iMovie '08 | Pogue's Posts | New York Times The latest version of iMovie is a shadow of its former self, lacking much of the advanced functionality of its predecessor. (tags: apple review...

Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 | Comments (2)

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Clay iPhone - a photoset on Flickr A replica of the iPhone created with modeling clay. (tags: apple art iphone sculpture via:jnorman) Which City Is the Bloggiest of Them All? | Free Ride | Express Shaw is not the...

Posted Saturday, August 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Top 10 Best [U.S.] Newspaper Websites | The Bivings Report Judging sites not only on their web features but also on the design, aesthetics and general usability of the site. (tags: webdesign journalism onlinenews newspapers washpost nytimes via:romenesko) ...

Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 | Comments (2)

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8 ways to drive a graphic designer mad. | ghisroy.com - Rants, Comics & other Sillyness A list of things you can do when working with a graphic designer to assure that they have a burn-out and leave this...

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Marking Your Spot on the Web, Part Two | Poynter Online With dozens of social bookmarking sites available, which (if any) should news organizations use? More important, what (if anything) could these tools contribute? (tags: socialnetwork delicious onlinenews blogs...

Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Johnson & Johnson sues American Red Cross over use of emblem | International Herald Tribune Johnson & Johnson said it has had exclusive rights to use the trademark on certain commercial products -- including bandages and first-aid cream --...

Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Joss Whedon | The A.V. Club As comics week continues, we talk to the Buffy and Firefly mastermind about trying to adapt Wonder Woman and why killing Wesley was awesome. (tags: comics television buffy) ...

Posted Thursday, August 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Maryland Scenic Byways | Maryland State Highway Administration Maryland has designated 19 byways that encompass 2,487 miles of beautiful roads, which offer a taste of Maryland's scenic beauty, history and culture. Take the roads less traveled including four entirely...

Posted Wednesday, August 8, 2007 | Comments (0)

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'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean | New York Times An editor at Forbes has been lampooning Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, on a popular blog, "Fake Steve." (tags: satire apple business writing blogs) In Rome, a New Ritual...

Posted Monday, August 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Vibram Five Fingers: Discover the Barefooting Alternative These shoes are crazy -- like my socks that have slots for the individual toes, but made for outdoor use. I'm oddly intrigued. (tags: clothing shoes shopping via:dari) Type City Prints |...

Posted Sunday, August 5, 2007 | Comments (0)

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SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script | deconcept SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and...

Posted Thursday, August 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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To Save Themselves, US Newspapers Put Readers to Work | Wired (tags: journalism business newspapers gannett citizenjournalism toread) Loripscream - It's Generatively Delicious! A site that makes lorem ipsum generation... fun? It does. Choose your flavor for random text...

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IBX? | washingtonpost.com If you like the Outer Banks' Ocracoke Island, consider what we've dubbed the "Inner Banks," about 225 miles southwest by car and ferry. (tags: travel beach northcarolina roadtrip) ...

Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | Comments (0)

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THE SMALL STAKES - posters Beautiful concert posters for indie bands. (tags: illustration design music shopping poster) ...

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'Discover Your Inner Economist' by Tyler Cowen | New York Magazine Book Review Economist Tyler Cowen aims to help us live richer lives, and maybe get our kids to do their chores. (tags: books economics review toread) How Madison...

Posted Saturday, July 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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NVKelso's Illustrator Tools With Adobe's purchase of Macromedia last year, Freehand has been end-of-lifed in favor of Illustrator. Perhaps some of Freehand's more powerful features will make it into CS4, but until then I've hacked together some scripts to...

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Art of Eric Carle | NPR An audio slideshow about the work and creative process of children's book artist Eric Carle. (tags: art illustration video inspiration via:dari) How Fresh Is Your Cable News? Check the Label | washingtonpost.com...

Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Vancouver's Olympic Challenge | washingtonpost.com City faces pressure to fulfill social pledges that helped it win 2010 Winter Games (tags: vancouver olympics) ...

Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Nights and Days of Elizabeth Edwards | WSJ.com At home and on campaign, she juggles her difficult choices. 'How are you feeling?' (tags: cancer politics election2008 campaign via:rwalker) High-Tech Squirrels Trained to Conduct Espionage | Slashdot Who knows...

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Movable Type Performance Tuning | Six Apart Developer Wiki (tags: movabletype webdev blogs) ...

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Sports Leagues Impose More Rules on Coverage | WSJ.com (tags: journalism sports business onlinenews via:romenesko) ...

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Hands to Boag (MP3) I'm not sure who the "Boag" of the title is, but the song, set to the tune of the '80s song "Hands to Heaven," is a pretty funny / nerdy ode to web development. (tags:...

Posted Thursday, July 19, 2007 | Comments (0)

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SpiekerBlog (en) SpiekerBlog is Erik Spiekermann's personal blog. Not surprisingly, most of the topics are of a typographical nature. The good news: While there is no cure for Typomania, the illness I suffer from, it is not lethal. (tags:...

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Book Brings Penguins Into Boardrooms | New York Times Last year, John P. Kotter rewrote his 1996 book about organizational change, recasting it as a fable about penguins. Since then it has sold some 224,000 copies. (tags: business books...

Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Marked Man | washingtonpost.com Washington's Infomercial King? Matthew Lesko, No Question. (tags: washingtondc business marketing advertising television) Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense | Wired Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give...

Posted Monday, July 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The World's Best Candy Bars? English, of Course | New York Times For the rarefied palate that can appreciate the soft, immediate pleasure of an inexpensive candy bar, it's not difficult to give the edge to sweets from the...

Posted Sunday, July 15, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Anderson Cooper and Dinner Guest Eat at His Least Favorite Restaurant (Again). | McSweeney's Internet Tendency Please don't bail on me yet, my long-suffering dinner companion. Coming up later in the hour, we'll have some quality dining. (tags: humor...

Posted Saturday, July 14, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Movies Go to Washington | washingtonpost.com Twelve top films with Washington settings -- some real, some imagined -- that evoke the politics, geography and culture of the nation's capital. (tags: movies washingtondc) CSS - Conditional comments | quirksmode...

Posted Friday, July 13, 2007 | Comments (0)

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What's Hidden in AT&T's 'Fine Print'? | TeleTruth Looking at the fine print of AT&T's terms of service with the iPhone. Some of this I'd already heard about, but some things were new -- and startling (like the restriction...

Posted Thursday, July 12, 2007 | Comments (0)

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DC2NY A new bus service from DC to New York. "We offer you a cold beverage upon boarding, and complimentary wireless internet service between Washington and New York City." (tags: travel nyc publictransit via:dcist) Hopper | Smithsonian Magazine Mystery....

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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What Camera? | Smithsonian Magazine Look what photographer Robert Creamer can do with a flatbed scanner. (tags: photography) In Small Packages, Fewer Calories and More Profit | New York Times In just three years, sales of 100-calorie packs of...

Posted Sunday, July 8, 2007 | Comments (2)

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quiet structure | Design View / Andy Rutledge Quiet structure is achieved when you de-emphasize the structural elements ... and bring a rhythmical consistency to the layout. The result is that the content becomes more conspicuous and the overall...

Posted Saturday, July 7, 2007 | Comments (0)

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A More Perfect Cacophony: Building Daily Kos | Mother Jones Kos' lead site designer on the search for the ultimate digital community. (tags: blogs community toread) Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone | Apple Developer Connection (tags: apple...

Posted Friday, July 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey | the Daily Mail The armada of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago. Since...

Posted Thursday, July 5, 2007 | Comments (0)

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After the staff cuts, will the newspapers of the future look like the newspapers from the past? | Slate Magazine Jack Shafer compares the Washington Post and New York Times of 1972 to their modern counterparts. (tags: newspapers journalism)...

Posted Wednesday, July 4, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Ambiance Of Metro Might Take Sharp Turn | washingtonpost.com Metro's new general manager wants to get rid of the carpet in trains, brighten the lighting in stations and increase advertising in stations, trains and buses. (tags: washingtondc publictransit) Developer...

Posted Tuesday, July 3, 2007 | Comments (0)

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City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography | New York Times New rules being considered by New York City's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting would require any group of two or more people...

Posted Monday, July 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Past global warming produced giant penguins | mongabay.com Scientists have discovered fossil remains of a giant species of penguin that lived some 40 million years ago in what is now Peru. (tags: animals penguins environment) The Real Thing. Really....

Posted Sunday, July 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Hacked Mac mini delivers news the old-fashioned way (sort of) | Macenstein Using an old newspaper vending rack, a 17-inch LCD display, some rope lighting, a Mac mini and some AppleScript, one man was able to create a digital...

Posted Friday, June 29, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Yippee-Ki-Yay... | - Slate Magazine The action genre is primarily an exercise in hero-worship. But Die Hard's wisecrack is remarkable for how it refers not to one hero but to a tradition of heroism. It is a line born...

Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Taking the Wrong View | washingtonpost.com Three projects on or near the National Mall could reshape more than the vistas. (tags: washingtondc architecture) Score: New School 58 - Old School 2 | Brand New A critique of the new...

Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

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If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers | Digital Survivors Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between...

Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Escalator wisdom turned upside down | globeandmail.com In Toronto, safety concerns spur officials to scrap signs reading 'Stand right, walk left' (tags: publictransit via:dcist) ikea hacker WANTED: your ikea hacks. whatever they may be - a funked up karlanda...

Posted Saturday, June 23, 2007 | Comments (2)

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Study Says Eldest Children Have Higher I.Q.s | New York Times The difference in I.Q. between siblings was a result of family dynamics, not biological factors (tags: family intelligence children science psychology) ...

Posted Friday, June 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Navigating slide shows: What do people choose when every choice is possible? | Online Journalism Review Is the linear orientation to looking through material so hard-wired into our media usage that it is, and will continue to be, the...

Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Starlight and Shadow | The Atlantic George Hurrell's brilliantly orchestrated photographs helped define Hollywood glamour in the 1930s. (Subscription required) (tags: photography fashion movies) Keeping Faith | The Atlantic Jin Luxian's 50-year struggle to keep Catholicism alive in China,...

Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Feature Presentation | The New Yorker "Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls ......

Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 | Comments (0)

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And Now for a Syllable From Our Sponsor | washingtonpost.com "Iced coffee at McDonald's" is part of the vanguard of radio commercials that take the trend of shrinking radio ad lengths to its obvious next diminution: the two-second nano...

Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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[ together ] b o o k - Get it together... Organize your memories for life. (tags: photography books shopping gifts via:realsimple) Forty years of 'Respect' | Detroit Free Press From civil rights theme song to karaoke favorite, Aretha...

Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 | Comments (0)

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My How Things Have Changed | FishbowlDC It makes my head spin: One of the photojournalists who covered the most recent Paris Hilton kerfuffle also covered the Vietnam War back in the day (and took a rather famous photo)....

Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering | Joel on Software Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low...

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | Comments (0)

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5 Myths About Scooter and the Slammer | washingtonpost.com Even now, four years after Valerie Plame's name hit the papers, the public still has some startling misconceptions about this fascinating, thorny case. (tags: government law politics valerieplame scooterlibby) ...

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If it's not tennis elbow, it may be 'Wiiitis' | CNN.com (tags: games wii health exercise via:dschroeder) ...

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London, How do I Hate Thee? Let me Count the Ways, 1, 2… 2012 | Speak Up Behold, the $800,000 monstrosity that is the 2012 London Olympics logo. (tags: typography olympics logos branding via:veer) ...

Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Other Machu Picchu | New York Times A Machu Picchu without the crowds, without the vendors, without the long lines of buses snaking through the Peruvian countryside exists -- and it’s called Choquequirao. (tags: travel peru) Jane Siberry's...

Posted Monday, June 4, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Real-World Salaries of Your Favorite TV Characters | MSN Careers Including Pam Beesly (The Office), Denny Crane (Boston Legal), Betty Suarez (Ugly Betty), Lynette Scavo (Desperate Housewives), Meredith Grey (Grey's Anatomy), Arthur Branch (Law & Order) and more. (tags:...

Posted Sunday, June 3, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Google Maps Street View Camera | Gizmodo IM mounts a 11-camera contraption on top of their vehicle as they drive in order to capture the 360-degree view you get on Google Maps. (tags: googlemaps photography technology) Media Landscape...

Posted Saturday, June 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Soul of Athens What is the soul of the 200-year-old community of Athens, Ohio and the county that surrounds it? A multimedia project by the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. (tags: webdesign community onlinenews journalism flash photography...

Posted Friday, June 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Directory of Cities and Towns in World | Global Gazetteer Latitude / longitude coordinates for cities around the world. (tags: catrography geography mapping reference world via:rwalker via:holovaty) Michael McDonough's Top Ten Things They Never Taught Me in Design School...

Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Trulia Hindsight - Maps of Properties Through Time Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States from Trulia. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and...

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Apple's Lesson for Sony's Stores: Just Connect | New York Times Apple has made retail seem ridiculously easy. But why hasn't the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out? (tags: business apple computer sony) ...

Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Nation's Springfields vie for 'Simpsons Movie' premiere | Los Angeles Times Fox has challenged Springfields coast to coast to prove why they're the most fitting template for the show. The winning Springfield gets to host the premiere. (tags: thesimpsons...

Posted Monday, May 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Starring New York, City of Grit and Glamour Grand Central Terminal's magical role on screen makes it the ideal location for "Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies," an ambitious exhibition of films, photographs and sets. (tags: nyc movies...

Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Photo Gallery: Prosthetics | washingtonpost.com Robert Barron is a master of disguises. Formerly a disguise specialist for the CIA, he now uses his artistry to create realistic body parts for those who are missing them. (tags: photography health) How...

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | Comments (2)

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Clarendon Area's Urban Energy Helps Melt Midlife Ordeals Away | washingtonpost.com The rapidly urbanizing stretch of suburbia is becoming the place to move in Northern Virginia after a life-changing event, like divorce, the loss of a spouse, a cross-country...

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Let's Get Visual | Entertainment Weekly Director Michel Gondry talks to EW about his past music-video work with White Stripes Jack and Meg, and their next collaboration -- for a song he inspired -- off the band's upcoming ''Icky...

Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Are You a Troll Whisperer? | E-Media Tidbits | Poynter Online Tips for managing unruly interlopers on messageboards and comment threads. (tags: community howto) Use Your Driver's License as a Debit Card | Business Week A startup promises to...

Posted Sunday, May 20, 2007 | Comments (0)

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PictoBrowser Free Flickr Image Browser for your Site, Blog and MySpace (tags: flash flickr photography tools free via:powazek) Design By Grid (tags: design webdesign reference toread inspiration) Elastic lists | Well-formed data A demonstration of the "elastic list" principle...

Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 | Comments (1)

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The Real Story of JPG Magazine | Derek Powazek Derek Powazek and Heather Champ are no longer a part of the community-oriented magazine that they founded. (tags: business flickr photography web2.0 magazine community) Hybrid Cars' Fantasy Mileage Ratings Drive...

Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Web Design 101: Positioning | Digital Web Magazine Let's shed some light on the shadowy mysteries of CSS positioning. (tags: css webdesign reference) Movie Theater Etiquette Refresher | Popwatch | Entertainment Weekly Amen. (tags: movies culture) ...

Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well | WSJ.com In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement...

Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 | Comments (0)

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A Museum for Artifacts of the News Media's Hunters and Gatherers | New York Times A bigger, more dramatic, higher-tech reinvention of the Newseum is under construction in Washington. (tags: washingtondc journalism history newseum museum) Genes Take Charge, and...

Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Putting the I in Advertising | washingtonpost.com Get the audience involved, the thinking goes, and they'll develop a better connection to the product, as well as tap into what appeals to their own demographic better than the professionals. Oh,...

Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Campaign Logo Review | Prezzish Tiny, simple and usually ignored, these logos contain the very essence of the candidates, distilled into their purest form. (tags: election2008 logos branding politics design via:designobserver) Bots on the Ground | washingtonpost.com The...

Posted Monday, May 7, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Geekster Moleskine | zonageek An enterprising geek turns a Moleskine notebook into an external hard drive. (tags: moleskine computer howto via:43folders) Leave It to Beaver: 1958 | Shorpy A viewer freeze-frames a letter from the Beaver's principal to...

Posted Sunday, May 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Yahoo Photos going dark as Flickr shines on | USATODAY.com Digital photography has evolved "into a social activity that allows people to communicate and connect," Yahoo said. "We have decided to shift our focus accordingly." (tags: photography flickr yahoo...

Posted Saturday, May 5, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Improve your photography with clasical art Adjusting your photographs to get the color 'just right' can be a chore. Think about this: The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their...

Posted Friday, May 4, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace | techPresident In November 2004, Joe Anthony started a unofficial fan page for then-newly-elected Senator Barack Obama on MySpace.com. Yesterday, the profile had just over 160,000 friends. Today, that url has only about...

Posted Thursday, May 3, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Who Will Play Obama on SNL? | The New York Observer Ladies' Man Tim Meadows has some ideas (tags: politics snl television barackobama election2008 via:edokeefe) ...

Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Metropolitan Museum's New Greek and Roman Galleries | New York Times Nicely-done interactive map of an updated wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (tags: museum nyc nytimes history art interactive flash via:nelsonhsu) WMATA Art In Transit MetroArts,...

Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Sexual Threats Quiet Some Female Bloggers | washingtonpost.com (tags: blogging women culture messageboard) ...

Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Remixing the Presidential Debates | E-Media Tidbits | Poynter Online Should video coverage of government-related events such as candidate debates be subject to copyright? Currently, the networks that broadcast the debates own the copyrights. (tags: election2008 television journalism video...

Posted Sunday, April 29, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Download fonts | dafont.com (tags: typography free design via:rob) ...

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News Flash: Anything This Graphic Should Never Have a Logo | Advertising Age TV Coverage of the Massacre at Virginia Tech Took Insta-Branding to a Grotesque and Appalling Low (tags: television journalism branding design ethics typography via:snd) ...

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Religion: The Pope Lets Go of Limbo | Newsweek With a new Vatican report, the Pope finally sends unbaptized babies to heaven -- and signals that he may be less conservative than his image suggests. (tags: religion catholic) KICK...

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 | Comments (0)

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USAToday.com Reports Big Jump in Traffic Since March Re-Launch | Editor & Publisher USA Today said the number of registrations jumped 380% over February, and that readers are spending more time per visit ... Gaining the most traffic were...

Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Color me Pretty | Brand New Critique / review of MSNBC's new branding. (tags: branding logos design typography advertising onlinenews msnbc) ...

Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Audience Measurement: Watch the Cookies Crumble | E-Media Tidbits | Poynter Online If your site relies on server logs or cookie-based analytics systems to measure the number of users and their loyalty, you may have a completely misleading picture...

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Pie Chart: Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design (tags: humor webdev webdesign via:dcww) ...

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Does the press pick presidents? By Jack Shafer | Slate Magazine What coverage says about a candidate's prospects. (tags: politics journalism election2008 via:fishbowldc) ...

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Best-Informed Also View Fake News, Study Says | New York Times Respondents who knew the most about what's going on were likely to be viewers of programs like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show." (tags: pew research dailyshow stephencolbert journalism)...

Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Will Ferrell Movie Generator (tags: humor movies writing willferrell via:defamer) Unhorsed Jockey: Behind the Fall of Imus, A Digital Brush Fire | WSJ.com How bloggers drew attention to Imus's remarks and helped pump up the controversy. (tags: politics youtube...

Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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America's Favorite Architecture The top 150 architecture projects selected by the American public. Presented by the American Institute of Architects. (tags: architecture design inspiration usa via:swissmiss) ...

Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Sad Kermit Kermit covers sad, depressing songs by Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Elliott Smith and more. (tags: humor music parody kermit mp3 via:shachen) ...

Posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid | A List Apart Over the last year or so, there's been a lot of talk about grid systems and using column grids for website layouts. (tags: css webdesign typography...

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Unclutterer A blog about getting and staying organized. (tags: home productivity organization) Webby Nominees 2007 (tags: awards webdesign inspiration) ...

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs | New York Times High-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse. (tags: community blogging usercontent messageboard ethics)...

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Bus to the Ballgame - Going Out Gurus | washingtonpost.com The Nationals are back at RFK, and so is the Kegbus. Offered before and after every Friday and Saturday home game, the free shuttle runs between the stadium...

Posted Monday, April 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Pearls Before Breakfast | washingtonpost.com Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out. (tags: music video washingtondc publictransit culture joshuabell) ...

Posted Sunday, April 8, 2007 | Comments (2)

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New Army Uniform Doesn't Measure Up | Military.com A review of the new Army fatigue uniform (the one with the funky pixelated camouflage pattern) written by an Iraq veteran. (tags: clothing military army iraq) Photo Gallery: Peep Show |...

Posted Saturday, April 7, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Web vs. Print: Online Successes at One Newspaper Raise More Questions Than They Answer - Knowledge@Wharton Washingtonpost.com, part of the publicly held Washington Post Company, is a success story in an industry where the divide between vibrant online ventures...

Posted Friday, April 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Lulu.com - National Cherry Blossom Festival Photo Contest Entries will be judged based on creativity, image quality, and the photographer's representation of the many facets of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, including but not limited to cherry blossoms, springtime,...

Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2007 | Comments (0)

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It's Not You, It's Your Apartment | New York Times Whether it's mildew, materialism or Mom, what some dates' homes reveal about them have been romantic deal breakers. (tags: home relationships dating) MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2007 | 50...

Posted Monday, April 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Design Disease | Noisy Decent Graphics It seems to me that if you're a designer, a proper designer not someone who learnt Photoshop in between phone calls, then design runs through your veins like Pantone 7418. But more...

Posted Saturday, March 31, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Surprise: Study Finds Online Users Finish More Stories Than Print Readers | Editor and Publisher When readers chose to read an online story, they usually read an average of 77% of the story, compared to 62% in broadsheets and...

Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Illustration Friday Blog about illustration. (tags: art blogging illustration inspiration via:veer) Thomas Allen's Pulp Covers | Rag & Bone Blog Photographer Thomas Allen takes classic pulp paperbacks, cuts and rearranges the covers a bit to create narrative dioramas. The...

Posted Wednesday, March 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Jamestown 2007 - America's 400th Anniversary Official Web site / event listings for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va. (tags: history virginia usa todo) My Fellow Americans: Pls Post a Comment! | washingtonpost.com Instead of ponderous...

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff | PBS MediaShift Newspaper editors are finally considering ways of getting computer programmers onto their news staff and out of the trenches of tech support or doing work on...

Posted Saturday, March 24, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Online anonymity lets users get nasty | MSNBC.com News organizations, struggling to find ways to keep their readers involved in an increasingly digital and interactive world, are trying to strike the right balance. (tags: onlinenews messageboard ethics community) Dressing...

Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Here Be Dragons | washingtonpost.com Through Nikolas Schiller's Eye, Aerial Maps of Familiar Places Become Terra Incognita (tags: art maps toread) Factory Tours USA A listing of companies around the country that offer free tours of their factories, from...

Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Baghdad: Mapping the violence | BBC NEWS Animated map details Baghdad's key locations, ethnic divisions and major bomb attacks of the insurgency and sectarian violence. (tags: bbc interactive maps war iraq flash via:derekwillis) Chronicling America | The Library of...

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard | ThinkGeek I don't know how well this thing actually works, but it sure *looks* geeky-cool. (tags: computer toys shopping technology bluetooth) ...

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Parking Reservations | washingtonpost.com Washingtonians may have become more conservative about how much they will spend on their homes. But when it comes to parking spaces, many will pay tens of thousands of dollars to avoid circling around for...

Posted Sunday, March 18, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Word HTML Cleaner | Textism A tool that strips proprietary Microsoft tags and other cruft from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting intact. (tags: tools microsoft html software webdesign webdev via:derekwillis) New Work: TIME Magazine | Pentagram Today, TIME...

Posted Saturday, March 17, 2007 | Comments (0)

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10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities | Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Several usability findings lead directly to higher sales and increased customer loyalty. These design tactics should be your first priority when updating your website. (tags: usability business shopping smallbusiness webdesign) The...

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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This American Life — an early look | TV Squad "This American Life" is coming to Showtime, and TVSquad got a look at the first four episodes. (tags: thisamericanlife radio television journalism illustration chrisware) Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries |...

Posted Friday, March 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Shakespeare Explorer | The Kennedy Center The Kennedy Center invites you to explore the life and legacy of William Shakespeare. Using the synchronized map and timeline, you will learn how his legacy continues to impact our world today. (tags:...

Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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In High-Tech World, Access to Students Still Difficult | washingtonpost.com College students now are wired, wireless, Sidekicked, Facebooked, YouTubed and bleeping with instant messages and text messages. But try getting an important announcement out to everyone on campus. (tags:...

Posted Monday, March 5, 2007 | Comments (2)

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Federal Court Reaffirms Immunity of Bloggers from Suits Brought Against Commenters | ACSBlog (tags: blogging law via:slashdot) ...

Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It | New York Times Pierre Bayard, a Paris University literature professor, has written a survivor's guide for literature students, "How to Talk About Books You Haven't...

Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

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A Call to Confession, for It Is Fading | washingtonpost.com D.C. archdiocese opens an ad barrage to revive the elemental rite. (tags: catholic religion advertising culture) ...

Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Virtual loses its virtues | Los Angeles Times As political officer for the Second Life Liberation Army, Marshal Cahill is passionately committed to righting what he considers the wrongs of a world that exists only on the computer servers...

Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Last Notes on the Megapixel Myth - Pogue's Posts | New York Times Blog But a million factors are far more important than the megapixels. The question is: Can we come up with a new one-digit crutch? Can we...

Posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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It's time to stop reporting on the "wind chill." | Slate Magazine (tags: weather environment science) CJR Daily: Post Ombud Says "It Wasn't Us! We Swear!" "This ghettoization of online newsgathering, and, by implication, the professionalism of reporters who...

Posted Saturday, February 17, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) Degree for Journalists | Georgetown University Beginning in the 2007-2008 academic year, Georgetown University Law Center will offer a Masters of Studies in Law ("MSL") degree for journalists. (tags: education law georgetown journalism)...

Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 | Comments (1)

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What To Do in an Emergency The site highlights some of the ambiguous illustrations from the DHS site ready.gov, adding amusing new captions. (tags: illustration parody humor terrorism via:holovaty) Troubles Grow for a University Built on Profits | New...

Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Lifeblogging: Is a virtual brain good for the real one? | Ars.Technica Would you record your life -- all of it -- for posterity? That's what some intrepid lifebloggers are attempting, using digital voice recorders, cameras, and scanners. The...

Posted Sunday, February 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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In Search of Serendipity | WSJ.com Can Online Papers Recreate a Joy of Print? You Bet -- in Fact, They Already Do (tags: journalism onlinenews newspapers via:jeremyn) How do they do that? | Chicago Tribune What it takes to...

Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Times Online Re-design, Comparison on Flickr - Photo Sharing! The Times of London suffered some growing pains when it launched its redesign earlier this week. Among the issues: CSS files that wouldn't load properly. Funny what a difference a...

Posted Friday, February 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Fond Memory: The Short Life Of the Floppy | washingtonpost.com The heyday of the floppy disk has passed. (tags: technology history computer) ...

Posted Friday, February 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Wishlists, Gift Certificates, and Gift Giving in E-Commerce | Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox Although gift features leverage the online medium and draw new users to a site, they also introduce many usability pitfalls. Among them are poorly designed email notifications,...

Posted Thursday, February 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Carson Ellis Artist / Illustrator | YouTube Video interview with a Portland illustrator who's made a name for herself illustrating album covers for The Decemberists. (tags: interview illustration video decemberists music via:dari) ...

Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2007 | Comments (0)

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'Office' Songs in the Unhip Keys of Life and Karaoke | New York Times If a song is popular now, don't expect to hear it on "The Office" until late next year. (tags: theoffice television music) ...

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Correct Me If I'm Wrong... | Chronicle Podcasts Almost every day, The San Francisco Chronicle hears from readers (and some non-readers). We listen to them and read them, and we think some of the more interesting and unusual ones...

Posted Sunday, January 28, 2007 | Comments (0)

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FOCUS: Washington; Subway Shaping A Skyline | New York Times 1986 NYT article about urban development around the D.C. Metro, including Arlington's "smart growth" strategy. (tags: urbanplanning washingtondc arlingtonva publictransit via:rob) The Missing Link | Washington City Paper We...

Posted Saturday, January 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Taking Power, Sharing Cereal | New York Times Will the senior senator from New York please make his bed? (tags: politics washingtondc relationships) Wiki-Parenting | Slate Magazine How babies invented community-based collaborative authorship. (tags: culture children wiki collaboration) ...

Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 | Comments (0)

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US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud | Chirag Mehta Shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2007. (tags: politics...

Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 | Comments (2)

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Barack to the Drawing Board by Eric Feezell | The Morning News With Barack Obama's presidential campaign underway, his advisors are working overtime to make sure their man appeals to the American public, and the first challenge is the...

Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 | Comments (0)

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TagMaps - World Explorer Explore the world through Flickr geotagged images. A bit buggy, but an interesting experiment. (tags: flash maps flickr yahoo tagging photography mashup via:holovaty) ...

Posted Friday, January 19, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Atlas - Mapping for Online Publishers Atlas allows publishers — national chains, hyperlocal news sites and bloggers — to add interactive maps to their stories in seconds. (tags: tools gootlemaps maps webdesign onlinenews) ...

Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing | Skrentablog It turns out that owning the starting point on the Internet is really, really valuable. (tags: google business internet search advertising seo via:holovaty) Appropriate Discoverability | Skrentablog 95% of...

Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 | Comments (1)

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24-Hour Newspaper People | New York Times David Carr writes, "Like a lot of modern newspaper people, I have a blog ... Having a blog makes me approachable, reader-friendly and engaged. Perhaps too engaged." (tags: blogs journalism nytimes onlinenews)...

Posted Tuesday, January 16, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Take a Blogger to Lunch (And Other Radical Ideas for Journos Struggling to Understand the Web) | Poynter Online (tags: journalism onlinenews blogs community washpost) Have something to say? I don't care | Los Angeles Times Joel Stein writes,...

Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Seven rules for reading the paper | Salon.com Newspapers are portable, disposable and convey a certain savoir faire. Follow these easy steps, and you'll be leaving your laptop behind. By Garrison Keillor (tags: newspapers culture humor howto) An Insider's...

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Getting Into the Act | washingtonpost.com It's a symbiotic relationship. [TV] scriptwriters get the expertise they need to make their dramas plausible ... In return, federal medical experts and health-policy wonks hope to inject public health messages into some...

Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Gladwell's Brain | washingtonian.com Malcolm Gladwell, the quirky author of Blink and Tipping Point, writes bestseller after bestseller. He got his start in Washington, and Washington hasn't been the same since. (tags: malcolmgladwell writing journalism washingtondc washpost toread via:fishbowldc)...

Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 | Comments (0)

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A Candidate's Not-So-Candid Camera? | washingtonpost.com The 2008 campaign is "totally going to be on steroids this time in terms of what a candidate can do," says Joe Trippi. "You're going to see reality, and you're going to see...

Posted Tuesday, January 9, 2007 | Comments (0)

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The Hot and the Not | washingtonpost.com Will those gleaming stainless appliances help sell your home? How about that spiral staircase? Hmmm. Maybe hardwood floors, installed throughout the house, would be a better bet for resale value. (tags: realestate...

Posted Monday, January 8, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Why Whole Foods' stock is tanking, and why it shouldn't be. | Slate Magazine (tags: groceries food health business shopping) Washington Post aims for closer print, Web ties | Reuters.com The Washington Post Co. plans to have its veteran...

Posted Saturday, January 6, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Death to User-Generated Content | Powazek Derek Powazek writes: "Let's all stop using the phrase 'user-generated content' ... If we must have an umbrella term to describe the whole shebang, I have a suggestion. Try this on for size:...

Posted Friday, January 5, 2007 | Comments (2)

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Photographic Palettes | 24 ways A perfect palette looks easy when it's done right, but it's often maddeningly difficult and time-consuming to accomplish. (tags: color photography toread webdesign) ...

Posted Thursday, January 4, 2007 | Comments (0)

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Robots That Fill an Emotional Vacuum | washingtonpost.com These are the days when liberal-arts majors finally crossed the line, falling into an emotional relationship with a real robot. (tags: technology psychology hci roomba) Friends at Hand and in Your...

Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2007 | Comments (0)

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New Job Title for Druggists: Diabetes Coach | New York Times For the past 10 years, the city of Asheville has given free diabetes medicines and supplies to municipal workers if they agree to monthly counseling from specially trained...

Posted Monday, January 1, 2007 | Comments (0)

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For Saddam's Page in History, A Final Link On YouTube | washingtonpost.com "The media's efforts at gatekeeping are now almost entirely irrelevant. The public will find exactly as much of the death of Hussein as it wants, and people...

Posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Taking a Design Risk On A1 To Protect Readers | Poynter Online The Seattle Times took a different approach to Wednesday morning's front page: They devoted all the space above the fold to a public service message. (tags: newspapers...

Posted Friday, December 29, 2006 | Comments (0)

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The anatomy of a shopping mall | The Business Gazette Retailers hone strategies for prime locations to target shoppers (tags: shopping business psychology via:alsmorningmeeting) Barack Hussein Obama and the history of bad middle names in politics | Slate Magazine...

Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Airports Take Aim At Holiday Shoppers With Canny Planning | washingtonpost.com The airport duty-free store, not the mega-mall, has become the international multitasker's holiday shopping center. (tags: shopping travel airport) Unhappy feat: biologists baffled as millions of penguins vanish...

Posted Tuesday, December 26, 2006 | Comments (0)

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The Gift Right Out | The New Yorker The boom in gift cards is also a rational response to the most important economic fact about Christmas gift giving: most of us just aren't that good at it. (tags: christmas...

Posted Monday, December 25, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Top ten animal geeks | Crave at CNET.co.uk Non-humans who have made outstanding contributions to science. (tags: animals science technology via:slashdot) Cartoon: Illustration of a Product Design Process (tags: cartoon business process collaboration webdev) Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview...

Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Reader comments in jeopardy | Arizona Daily Star Seven months after StarNet launched a feature allowing readers to add comments to stories, Star editors are rethinking the whole idea because of the coarseness of those online postings. (tags: newspapers...

Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Writers as actors and vice versa | Channel Island | Los Angeles Times If NBC's comedy "The Office" feels like nothing else on television, it may be because the actors and writers are so often on the same page....

Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Things We Can't Live Without | Pew Research Center As Americans navigate increasingly crowded lives, the number of things they say they can't live without has multiplied in the past decade, according to a new Pew Research Center survey...

Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 | Comments (0)

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The Legend of Barack Obama | Washingtonian From out of nowhere, he's become DC's brightest star. Will his charisma and sense of destiny propel him to the White House in 2008? (tags: politics barakobama washingtondc chicago) ...

Posted Saturday, December 16, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Missed connection with Washington, DC | best of craigslist I miss you already, you wonderful, self-important, walkable, sporty, humid, pretentious, kinetic, dazzling, overpriced, overcaffeinated, cobblestoned, self-conscious, self-unaware, popped-collar-sporting, popped-collar-mocking, preppy hipster college town (tags: washingtondc via:holovaty) ...

Posted Friday, December 15, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Recipe: Iced Cranberry-White Chocolate Drop Cookies | washingtonpost.com (tags: recipe dessert cookies cranberry) ...

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 | Comments (2)

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Pyramid Atlantic At Center - Contemporary Prints, Paper and Book Arts Offers lots of workshops, including bookbinding and letterpress. (tags: art letterpress education paper books museum silverspringmd todo) ...

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Preparation is key to safety when planning a road trip | San Francisco Chronicle Many people think they can handle whatever is thrown at them on a vacation. But in reality, you are rewarded or punished for your level...

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Quarantined | washingtonpost.com Etta Young was afraid to be affectionate with her children for fear they would catch tuberculosis. (tags: relationships washingtondc medicine children writing) ...

Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 | Comments (0)

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In Poems and Trinkets, Emblems of a Public Mourning | washingtonpost.com Every day since the Vietnam War memorial opened in 1982, National Park Service rangers have gathered up the poems and Purple Hearts, the battle ribbons and dog tags...

Posted Sunday, December 10, 2006 | Comments (0)

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REST for toddlers | dive into mark HTTP status codes, applied to kids (tags: children humor technology internet via:holovaty) How to Code HTML Email Newsletters [HTML & XHTML Tutorials] The HTML email newsletter is a very successful communications medium...

Posted Friday, December 8, 2006 | Comments (2)

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Internet Archive: Live Music Archive The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. (tags: mp3 music community free) ...

Posted Thursday, December 7, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Women Face Emotional Wounds of War | washingtonpost.com The war in Iraq and Afghanistan has seen a far larger deployment of women with far more females exposed to ambushes, roadside bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and other deadly hazards. And they...

Posted Tuesday, December 5, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Nike+iPod Sport Kit raises privacy concerns, can be used to track individual users | MacDailyNews Researchers at the University of Washington have published a report detailing many easy and cheap ways the Nike+ iPod Sport Kit can be used...

Posted Monday, December 4, 2006 | Comments (0)

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Curbly | DIY Design Community (tags: home homeimprovement crafts community howto inspiration) Microsoft Makes Testing IE6 and 7 Easier | Slashdot Microsoft is making available free Windows XP/IE6 images available for VirtualPC. This means that you can run IE6...

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