July 2012
Minimalist Posters about the Major Art Movements, by Outmane Amahou.
And then the music stopped
Medal Count
Cellphones Then And Now
xkcd: Home Organization
Chesterton on education
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
— G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News, September 7, 1929 (via gkchestertonquote)
2012 Olympics: Opening ceremonies pictures
What Is Moore's Law?
An open Twitter-like ecosystem
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge...
Rules for being a good Internet citizen
Here’s the The TL;DR version.
You should read J.R. Conlin’s full letter welcoming his young niece to the Internet.
Seth Godin
We get what we click on. Alas, we also get what others click on. And society does a poor job of marketing productive media to itself.
Vik Muniz’s Starry Night, after Van Gogh (Pictures of Magazine 2). via
The Olympic Mood
Don’t overreact.
Good design is invisible
How to Kill Time
Most of these are ridiculously obvious, but it’s always good to be reminded of #4.
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](http://blog.marketo.com/blog/2012/07/killing-time-how-to-destroy-your-productivity-infographic.html)
Old Spice Voicemail Generator
sigourneyweaver-deactivated2020 : Alfred Hitchcock’s famous movie posters as…
sigourneyweaver-deactivated2020:
Alfred Hitchcock’s famous movie posters as gifs
Things to do
The Intrapreneurs
Motherland, A Solo Art Exhibition at CoproGallery by Annie Owens
falling leaves
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“Two noise makers compete for music supremacy.” via
“Two noise makers compete for music supremacy.” via
» the art of brief emails :mnmlist
Liquid suspension, single capture by Jack Long
Liquid suspension, single capture by Jack Long
How Americans spend their time. via The Economist
How Americans spend their time. via The Economist
Likecoholic
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers (by enyay )
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
(by enyay)
Superhero Math
Sentenc.es
I think this just means that people who shop in bookstores to learn about…
I think this just means that people who shop in bookstores to learn about computers have yet to learn how to ask Google good questions.
Reduce Your Level of Insecurity Work
Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco (via The 5 Types of Work That Fill Your Day)
“Insecurity Work” is the
A lot of people enjoyed Tim Kreider’s, The ‘Busy’ Trap , but I really…
A lot of people enjoyed Tim Kreider’s, The ‘Busy’ Trap, but I really enjoyed this illustration by Brecht Vandenbroucke’s that perfectly captured the feeling of being busy.
Dream Big.
(via Gapingvoid Daily Cartoon)
Pay Too Much
Sky Monsters by Camille Seaman. via In Focus
G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News October 23, 1929 (via…
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
— G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News October 23, 1929 (via gkchestertonquote)
What people really do when ‘working from home’ .
What people really do when ‘working from home’.
There's a lot of planets
XKCD counts 786 of them.
Only yuppies feel busy
John Adams
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
“Write drunk; edit sober.” – Ernest Hemingway
This poster is from a collection of literary prints that feature quotes from famous authors.
70 Years of Batman.
70 Years of Batman.
The Alphabet of Typography
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“Holden Caulfield thinks you’re phony.”
“Holden Caulfield thinks you’re phony.”
Wikipedia article traffic statistics
Shakespeare’s Hokey Pokey
Here’s the original text of Shakespeare style Hokey Pokey, by Jeff Brechlin:
O proud left foot, that ventures quick within Then soon upon a backward journey lithe. Anon, once more the gesture, then begin: Command sinistral pedestal to writhe. Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke, A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl. To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke. Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl. The Hoke, the poke – banish now thy doubt Verily, I say, ‘tis what it’s all about. – by “William Shakespeare”
In The City Of Love
I’ve had this song stuck in my head off and on over the past few weeks. Your life might be better if it was in your head too.
Isabella :
Oh, how can he not feel the same way When we’re strolling down the Champs-Élysées In the City of Love?
Some awesome movie semi-stills
Millions of People Waiting
Death by Degrees
[O]ne man’s burden is another man’s opportunity. Student debt in the United States now exceeds $1 trillion. Like cigarette duties or state lotteries, debt-financed accreditation functions as a tax on the poor. But whereas sin taxes at least subsidize social spending, the “graduation tax” is doubly regressive, transferring funds from the young and poor to the old and affluent. The accreditors do well, and the creditors do even better. Student-loan asset-backed securities are far safer than their more famous cousins in the mortgage market: the government guarantees most of the liability, and, crucially, student loans cannot be erased by declaring bankruptcy.
Waking up some brain cells
Design is how it works
Incredible Carved Book Landscape Sculptures by Guy Laramee.
Incredible Carved Book Landscape Sculptures by Guy Laramee.
Seth Godin, Opportunity cost
Now that just about everyone is in the business of selling their time in some form, it’s important to be aware that even if something doesn’t cost you cash out of your wallet, the opportunity cost is not only real, it’s just as valuable. Not only does it cost money to say ‘no’, it costs money to say ‘yes’.
— Seth Godin, Opportunity cost
Next stop: Hatter House
Minimalistic Pixar Poster Series
I love everything about these movies. How great is it that a hint of a taste of portion of an image from a Pixar movie can evoke an emotional response?
(via DESIGN FETISH)
Techno life skills
Coffee houses were the distracting social media of the 1600s
Cover Story
A random assortment of book covers from the Book Cover Archive never fails to inspire.
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](http://bookcoverarchive.com/randomize)
Suitty-up, booty-up, billa-be-do-do-da
I love this song.
In my personal paracosm, this tune would come on in the background whenever I start working. I’d be so productive.
Do people still use pens? ryuuseikuma : For those who constantly forget to…
merlin : Wes Anderson - “My Life, My Card” (AmEx Commercial) I will never…
Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered.
parislemon : Innovation. (via @JoeTierney )
It’s time to start something. jaymug : Creativity takes no excuses.
