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I’m not an Apple boy (yet) but something like this would be awesome for anyone that uses their cell phone at work.

kentson:

Everything Takes Time (by wordboner)

The Architecture of Space

To cope with complexity people respond positively to simplicity. Simplicity Sells.

— Ric Bender (via ricbender)

More Data Was Transmitted Over the Internet in 2010 Than All Previous Years Combined

How to get attention on the internet: Cats, cats, and cats.

“Here’s to the Crazy Ones.” Apple - Think Different - Full Version (by kreftovich1)

Comic Sans is not official

That’s why you always leave a note” - Woot®

FACEBOOK & YOU - Very Demotivational

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Draw a Stickman

The Computer Dilemma Dvorak News Blog: General interest observations and true web-log.

The Giving Tree Movie (1973), narrated by Shel Silverstein (by farpman).

Every time I try to read this book to Matthew, I end up fighting back tears.

Cult of Done (by spatulated)

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

— Composition. Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. Elements of Style

The worlds biggest employers. (via Employment: Defending jobs - The Economist)

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

50mg:

Phrases We Owe to Shakespeare – via English Muse

Becky, a 20-year-old English Lit geek living in London, scribbled out this list in a Moleskine notebook at 3 am a couple nights ago. She posted it on her Tumblr page,

Ponzi Scheme vs. Social Security - By Veronique de Rugy - The Corner - National Review Online

This is another perspective on my other post on the differences between the two schemes.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Wikiquote

Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler (via Poster - Joey Roth)

Fast or Slow

Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

Google Gravity

Mass in Wartime via New Liturgical Movement

terrysdiary:

How a bad idea starts: “That looks easy… I could do that.” How a good idea idea starts: “That looks fun… I should do that.”

Conservatives were always skeptical of the campaign to democratize higher education, arguing that it was bound to lead to lowered standards and loss of purpose. Events have confirmed their predictions, even if their diagnosis has done little to alter the path of the American university.

— What’s wrong with our universities? by James Piereson - The New Criterion

Typewriters live on in India

Three Minute Philosophy - John Locke (by CollegeBinary)

Options.

(via xkcd: Family Decals)

MoMA Exhibitions

100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON (by WestfieldStratford)

StatusVia

Triptychs of Strangers #19, The Sunday Faced Cupholder - London (by theblackstar)

I was about to leave Spitalfields Market and recognized our stranger leaving with a so called “early morning sunday face”. Sundays - speaking of which. If you ever thought about doing strangers, consider starting on a Sunday. Most shops are closed and everyone seems to enjoy just sticking around - waiting for you to take advantage of moments like these.

Where Children Sleep presents English-born photographer James Mollison’s large-format photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world–from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India–alongside portraits of the children themselves.

via Where Children Sleep: James Mollison’s Poignant Photographs - Brain Pickings

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Beautiful street art by the elusive UK artist Banksy.

the Movie title stills collection

The 1% More Savings Calculator

Philographics

Road trip! American student joins rebels in fight for Qaddafi stronghold. (via The National)

Chris Jeon, a 21-year-old university student from Los Angeles, California,shrugging cooly, declared: “It is the end of my summer vacation, so I thought it would be cool to join the rebels. This is one of the only real revolutions” in the world.

What I’ve Learned

The First World Problems (by funnyz).

I suppose life could be worse.

What happens when you display one prominent brand with another brands iconography? Logo Designer Graham Smith tries to answer that question with his Brand Revisions.

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The evolution of the web

Here’s some samples of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” drawn into a children’s book by illustrator, Andrew Kolb. The link to the full book is at the bottom of the page…

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It’s not a Ponzi Scheme if you can’t exit!

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

— Steve Jobs - Wikiquote - Interview in WIRED magazine (February 1996)

Benjamin Franklin’s proof God loves us. (via design is mine : isn’t it lovely?: thought of the day : it could very well be true.)

(via sink me in the ocean - Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

(via A Manly Handshake: An Illustrated Guide - The Art of Manliness)

Bon Iver - Holocene (Official Music Video) (by boniver)

Thanks Mary Claire!

It seems ideas are shrinking, becoming more bite sized and palitable, coming in bursts 140 characters at a time. But where have all the world changing ideas gone? The world is becoming one where everyone can ‘know’ (if they want), but when you can know anything anytime, does that leave room for thinking?

We prefer knowing to thinking because knowing has more immediate value. It keeps us in the loop, keeps us connected to our friends and our cohort. Ideas are too airy, too impractical, too much work for too little reward. Few talk ideas. Everyone talks information, usually personal information. Where are you going? What are you doing? Whom are you seeing? These are today’s big questions.

ohryankelley:

DC Earthquake Devastation

Now in 3-D! Designers Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Tveterås created a 3-D rendition of the famous Windows Solitaire win screen. (via Skrekkøgle ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆)

thecalicartel:

Imagination Shifts Reality-

derhoeflicherebell:

Dave Perillo - 25 Years of Pixar (variant promo poster for D23)

Dad Life (by Slickus26)

Punchfork - The best new recipes from top food sites

colourbomb:

“Genius” by Andrew Judd

Treating the characters in Winnie the Pooh…

nevver:

A very minimalist business card. (via Minimalist Business Card - Minimalissimo)

Chimpanzee bottle feeds tiger cubs at zoo in Bangkok. More here.

via the Daily Mail

Awkward Family Photos meet It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. (via See a Very Sweet Family Portrait of the It’s Always Sunny Gang – Vulture)

Excerpts from Thomas Aquinas’s Childhood Journal

Lithuanian Mayor Defends Bike Lanes With A Tank via Urban Velo

startupquote:

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Three guys, over 44 days, traveled 38 thousand miles to 11 countries, all for these three ambitious linear concept films based on movement, learning and food. Independent film maker Rick Mereki directed the team.

Rick Mereki : Director, producer, additional camera and editing Tim White : DOP, producer, primary editing, sound Andrew Lees : Actor, mover, groover All Music composed and performed by Kelsey James Music Recorded and mixed by Jake Phillips Colour Grade : Edel Rafferty and Roslyn Di sisto Online Edit : Peter Mirecki

Six Months of Civil War in Libya

Hmmm… Perhaps there’s not as much we buy from China after all.

via ‘Made In China’ Accounts For Less Than 3 Percent Of American Personal Consumption Expenditures - ThinkProgress

Parkour on a bike: Danny Macaskill - Industrial Revolutions HD (by Morning3Run)

Mario Bros. Indie Film Trailer (by pixelspersecond)

Kittywood Studios: Cat Videos Incorporated (by pixelspersecond)

xkcd: TornadoGuard

Impressionist Jim Meskimen Does Shakespeare in Celebrity Voices (by jimmeskimen)

“You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic. Get a Bike. Break free!” Thanks, Gabi. (Post via Buzzfeed)

Social network traffic, with and without Facebook. (via How Google ranks in traffic compared to other social sites - VentureBeat)

The Batman Equation via MAKE

startupquote:

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

What is design?

viafrank:

Everything you ever needed to know about design, answered in five minutes by Charles Eames.

cepankus:

Yay! It starts tomorrow!!

The thinker of tender thoughts.

(via The best of the rest of the internet - Musings of an Inappropriate Woman)

Jailed mobsters in Italy are no longer allowed to wear designer clothes while serving their sentences.

For decades Palermo’s Ucciardone prison has been known to its inmates as “The Grand Hotel” – a place where not even a custodial sentence could prevent well-connected mafiosi from enjoying the pleasures of a fine meal and a well-cut suit.

One mobster, Michele Catalano, was even able to hold a champagne and lobster birthday banquet in the gym of the Sicilian jail, while a fellow godfather arranged a formal wedding for his daughter in the prison chapel.

via Brad Colbow - Independent Web Designer, Illustrator - The Brads - This is Why Your Newspaper is Dying

fromme-toyou:

Caught in the rain

Hope you have a weekend full of surprising moments

(via Circular reference. - Criggo)

There are many differences between the successes of the Harry Potter series and the successes of the Twilight series. However, I think Stephen King point out, most succinctly, the difference in their themes.

(via Harry Potter vs. Twilight « Bits Of Wisdom)

fakescience

Why there are so many competing standards. (via xkcd: Standards)

Soccer and volleyball are too easy for these athletes.

Kung Fu Volleyball or Kung Fu Soccer? (by DailyEpicVideos)

Pixelated animals.

bifanoland:

The frame is not big enough to hold the painting.

Via Super Punch

Live Your Dream manifesto via HOLSTEE.

by Graphic Nothing @ Some Prints.

This reminds me of an ultra pixellated version I posted in May. Again, it’s an incredible example of how the brain is able to recognize and reconstruct images in the imagination just from a few simple suggestions and component parts.

STATES UNITED LETTERPRESS by beauchamping on Etsy)