Eight Glasses of Water a Day? Seriously?

Designing the Rio Olympics Logo

Before Green Eggs

Every 100 Meter Men’s Medalist in One Race

This is now!

What are questions?

eBooks Gone in 5 Years?

via Back To The Future - Blog - Oo-De-Lally :: Yippee! – The Art Blog of Jayson Weidel

Essentialist Explanations

The Business of Bond

Dora the Explorer live action movie trailer.

Unusual Words Rendered in Bold Graphics

The Twitter Political Index

One week in

Russia’s Ivan Nifontov celebrates after defeating Japan’s Takahiro Nakai during their men’s -81kg bronze medal A judo match, July 31, 2012. (Darren Staples/Reuters) via The Big Picture.

I’d try to lose to the guy with crazy eyes as quickly as possible.

Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30?

From Pinterest’s Sayings, Proverbs and Things via Gabi who said:

[I] can’t get over the image of you in a hamster ball hissing up at me as I try and coax you out… like you’re some kind of vampire.

If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.

— Jim Barksdale - via A VC: Yahoo Is No Longer Dead To Me

Divers make funny faces mid-fall. Unfortunately, you don’t notice it on TV, even in the slow motion replays.

Alligators All Around

Politics and the English Language

Life Below 600px

A Pixar Alphabet Art Print by Mike Boon.

And then the music stopped

Medal Count

By Endless Origami

xkcd: Home Organization

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

fakescience:

This is more accurate than I’d care to admit.

An open Twitter-like ecosystem

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge…

Here’s the The TL;DR version.

You should read J.R. Conlin’s full letter welcoming his young niece to the Internet.

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.

— Seth Godin

Vik Muniz’s Starry Night, after Van Gogh (Pictures of Magazine 2).

via

The Olympic Mood

Don’t overreact.

Good design is invisible

Most of these are ridiculously obvious, but it’s always good to be reminded of #4.

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Old Spice Voicemail Generator

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

“Two noise makers compete for music supremacy.” via

» the art of brief emails :mnmlist

Liquid suspension, single capture by Jack Long

How Americans spend their time. via The Economist

By asafhanuka on Etsy

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

(by enyay)

Sentenc.es

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.

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 enjoyed this illustration by Brecht Vandenbroucke’s that perfectly captured the feeling of being busy.

(via Gapingvoid Daily Cartoon)

Pay Too Much

Sky Monsters by Camille Seaman.

via In Focus

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’.

XKCD counts 786 of them.

Only yuppies feel busy

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

— John Adams

This poster is from a collection of literary prints that feature quotes from famous authors.

70 Years of Batman.

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The Alphabet of Typography by Pop Chart Lab

“Holden Caulfield thinks you’re phony.”

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

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”

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?

Posted to Imgur by snacktimeplease.

via My Modern Metropolis

The editors at N+1:

[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.

explore-blog:

Wisdom from Dr. Seuss , a fine visual addition to these timeless Seuss-isms on life.

Incredible Carved Book Landscape Sculptures by Guy Laramee.

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

A Transit Map of Wonderland

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

A random assortment of book covers from the Book Cover Archive never fails to inspire.

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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.

merlin:

Wes Anderson - “My Life, My Card” (AmEx Commercial)

I will never ever ever get sick of this.

Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered.

parislemon:

Innovation.

It’s time to start something.

jaymug:

James Taranto:

November’s election may prove decisive as to whether the current ineffectual 5-4 majority in favor of limited congressional power becomes a strong 7-2 majority or gives way to a majority that believes Congress can do anything it wants to citizens. If nothing else, Roberts’s ruling has clarified the stakes for November. Perhaps that was what he was getting at when he wrote: “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

Explain XKCD

This clip is from s3e5 of Phineas and Ferb, the Phineas’ Birthday Clip-O-Rama! Starting at the 30-second mark is why I love this show.

(by chibinekogirl101)

The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions. Click through for a bigger version.

North Atlantic - A tragic short film depicting the conversation between a loan air traffic controller and the pilot of a plane destine to crash in the North Atlantic. It is a really a moving story. I managed to make Gabi cry just describing it to her.

(by bernard0nasciment0)