Jotted down to remember.
Probably the sexiest iPhone case ever. In general I don’t like cases but this one looks damn cool.
Some sweet mini chairs for your desk, since if you’re like me this is about as close as you’ll get to owning one.
Interesting infographic depicting where all the federal tax dollars go. I was surprised the deficit spending image isn’t larger but it’s still fairly huge.
Some good advice from Evan Williams when you’re kicking around a new product or idea.
Looks like the man was spreading some holiday cheer and swiping a little extra for himself.
John Maeda is the new president of RISD. His book, The Laws of Simplicity was probably my favorite read this year.
I’ve been reading a lot of architecture blogs lately and I stumbled across this site. It looks like they’ve done a lot of great modern stuff around Seattle, too bad it’s all way out of my price range.
Saved for quotes on an article I plan on writing a little later.
An absolutely fantastic infographic illustrating who’s mentioning who in the debates for the 2008 presidential race. As you hover over Clinton notice how many people are talking about her.
Buck buck, bagaack!
I’ve been creating some mixes based on color, so I’m interested to see how they categorized their music. Looks like a fairly cool service regardless though.
“Totally not out of the question.”
Really interesting infographic showing how even when household appliances are turned off they’re still sucking energy.
I still can’t believe Nintendo hasn’t figured out how to produce more of these things an entire year later. The console is fantastic though and Super Mario Galaxy is some of the most fun I’ve had playing a video game in a long time.
Great list from Jim Ray. I particularly like his take on You Tube.
“It’s like saying ‘yay,’ the dictionary said.” I don’t like all the LOL and OMG that adorn the internet these days, but I do enjoy a good “woot” every now and then. However, I prefer the more “proper” spelling with actual o’s instead of zeros.
I didn’t realize Aaron Sorkin had a new movie coming out but after seeing this I’m sold.
A great list of tips from Paul Boag. I really like the first tip though. Setting that ground work with the clients and defining those expectations early on are the best way to end up with a successful project.
Looks like a good collection of free icons. Saved for those times when you’ve got to go stock and the budget is really tight.
I’m not a huge fan of video but seeing these gets me excited about what’s possible. Whoever thinks HD isn’t that much different is just plain wrong.
Looks like a great solution for those web applications you’ve always wanted to live in their own window.
Something to ponder during this holiday season.
I love the design of this and it’s right here in Seattle. My neighbor’s firm even designed it so with any luck I’m going to get to go check it out later this week.
I’m looking to get a new car next year and after seeing this commercial I’m actually considering a Smart Car. How often can you buy something that was in MoMA?
Clever uses for recycled ties including wallets, iPod covers, and iPhone covers. They’re one of a kind so there’s no worries in someone having the same one too!
One of the funniest things I’ve seen on Flickr in a while.
It was the first computer I ever played with. They were at the school where my mom taught, so I was able to play with one when I went with her. I still have vivid memories of playing Pit Stop to this day.
I’ve always done something similar to this at parties with beers. I’ll rip part of the label so if I set it down later I immediately know it’s mine.
This is pretty close to my dream hours although I don’t think I’d want a place with more then 3 bedrooms (too much to clean). I hope to see more of this prefabricated green architecture in this modern style.
I’m still glad I’ve never joined.
“A permanent physical data art installation in an underground passageway, consisting of 16 half-mirroring wall elements showing real-time sociological statistics.” Socially responsible data visualization that appears to look great too.
Now if only they had a Seattle or Portland one…
Great idea by Carsonified. Looks like they had a lot of fun doing it too!
When I linked to this Blue Flavor was at #5
Fantastic interview with Yoshiaki Koizumi about the Zelda and Mario series and his involvement in their stories.
Great reference site for testing special characters and quickly grabbing their HTML codes.
I’m not that into printed calendars, I usually forget to change them and then realize I’m viewing January in July but these look awesome.
Initial reactions were “No way!” and then “Booyah!” from scientists.
For those days when there’s really no way around Internet Explorer 6 and transparent PNGs.
Great layer tennis match this week that’s done all in flash complete with animation. The ones that tell a story, even a loose one, are my favorite.
Some great paper here but the shipping is cost prohibitive.
A valiant goal. I think the web standards project was successful in eventually getting the browser makers to change their ways so more power to the email standards project.
I have an unhealthy addiction to coasters.
I’ve been loving this documentary. I’ve always had a fascination with big science and especially the atomic bomb. I’m still hoping to do a tour of Hanford one of these days.
A robotic exoskeleton for superhuman strength. It’s Terminator of the future, today—crazy.
The Hortence bit is definitely my favorite. Hilarious stuff.
“Sleevage is a blog all about music cover art. From the LP’s of the 60’s to the digital artworks of now.” Looks like a great place to get some design inspiration.
“Makoto Hirahara, is made of a plain window blind over a lighting fixture. Simply turn the blinds, and filter the light as needed, just like you’d do with a window…” For those of you in cubes or basements this looks like a fun way to simulate some dayli
“‘Cultural guerrillas’ cleared of lawbreaking over secret workshop in Pantheon.”
“A collection of simple network graphs illustrating how the flavor components of 250 different food products relate to each other, as a tool to inspire the creation of original recipes.” The idea is to spark new recipe creations with unusual combinations
It’s a good article and I was surprised to see my coworker Keith’s slide is used halfway down the article to make a point about the importance of writing online.
They combined the CandyBar 2 and Pixadex into a nice icon management package. I’m not that into tweaking my system icons but this is definitely intriguing. If nothing else it might be a great way to keep track and organize icons in general
So cool. If you’re still looking for a Christmas gift for me this wouldn’t be a bad one.
I’m not a big wall calendar person but this is hot.
I’m definitely getting excited for this film, but that camera action looks seriously jerky. Hopefully it’s just how they cut the trailer.
“Simple teapot of glass, cast stainless steel. High design for green tea.” I love my teapot, but I definitely want to get this one at some point.
“Set of six traditional Russian dolls. Includes: bit, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte figures.” Geek toy lust meter set to high.
It’s a bit sensationalized but Mark Pilgrim makes some interesting observations about Amazon’s new Kindle service.
Love the retro feel of all the stuff in this shop.
It doesn’t post often but when he does Cabel is laugh out loud funny.
I often have to “get away” from the screen. Hiking, running, even a quick game of ping pong help keep me balanced. Sure it’s a bit weird, but I can see how kids who have been surrounded by the internet their whole lives have a tough time with “real life”
“With an estimated 175 million copies distributed in 2006, the IKEA catalogue is thought to have surpassed the Bible as the most published printed work in the world.” That’s a little scary.
For Garrett and him having to deal with our west coast schedule.
Soon robots can take care of our calligraphy needs. Whew, I was worried about that.
Great advertising campaign idea—placing rails on billboards and ramps on bus stops for skaters.
Create custom grids for Blueprint
I’m having a hard time not spending $399 on this. It’s philanthropic and you get a toy at the same time—brilliant.
I love infographics and these about baseball pitches are absolutely beautiful.
“One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use “ho ho ho” because it could frighten children and was too close to “ho”, a US slang term for prostitute.”
“How big is the file? 3 floppies!” Hilarious.
I wish I’d have known about this before my trip to New York. I’d have definitely swung by the Times if I’d have known this was there.
I hope these are ready for Easter because I’ll definitely want a few for my place.
The paint on the cars is a great touch.
“A double-sided poster visualizing the water footprint of products and nations.” I like the product side better, but it’s a beautiful poster.
Laugh out loud funny.
“This site converts bitmap images to vector art - it’s an online auto-tracer.”
Hypercolor on a mug!
Sure, it’s an old Threadless T-shirt but it’s still funny.
This mouse looks great but I can’t imagine it being comfortable to use.
Vigilante justice… I so want one.
Shoot, I wish I’d have know about this museum when I was living over there.
Great thoughts about the illogical parts, the feeling of UI design. I particularly loved the quote “Change and fresh energy bring hope.”
Great thoughts on from Mark Boulton that’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
“Everything is freely available on the Internet, and is accordingly made inestimably valuable and utterly value-less.”
She’s perfectly fine so it’s okay to laugh.
Nice little bit of extra information from Amazon. I think they could work on improving the text descriptions of what the sliders mean but I can see how that meta data might be useful.
Lots of great photoshop tips in this article on how to achieve some nice looking effects.
It goes on a little too long but the last product is worth the wait.
Interesting thoughts on User-generated content. I agree a lot with what he says.
When project management is getting me down I like to go back and read this.
If you tweaked your apache configuration at all in 10.4 be sure you follow these tips to get it back up and running. I had to copy over my virtual hosts and now all is right in the world.
The use of depth of field on this photo is fantastic.
Updated version of the freeware BitTorrent client.
If only they had these when I was 8!
That’s truly disgusting.
In case I can’t handle the transparent menu bar in 10.5
Might be really useful for work or even just between my home machines.
I’ve been hoping Apple would do this since I first saw the new dock.
“Can I take a hit on your iPhone before I go back to my cubicle?”
It’s the panda that makes it awesome
Grunt. Me like.
Nice to see they’re trying to integrate the look and feel of the different OS’s.
Looks like a great technique.
“Exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter.” Looks like a great service, and I’ve got quite a few books on my shelf that I’d like to swap out.
They’ve got free shipping and their prices aren’t astronomical like Design Within Reach.
Even fire extinguishers can look good. Making safety items look good is a great way to make you want to keep them out and ready when you need them.
Love the photo, love the title.
Entertaining stuff.
It’s a little dated now that Facebook is so popular but still great stuff. I think my favorite part is the dotted line usenet that’s shaped like a UFO.
Thankfully.
Agreed.
Which way do you see it spinning? It only spins clockwise for me and try as I might I can’t get it to switch.
Awesome new service to help you get rid of unwanted catalogs and reduce your paper consumption.
So honest, so true.
Congratulations Mike and company!
Claymation at its finest.
That’s just crazy talk.
That’s one way to get some more space into a CRX.
New York Times on Portland’s thriving restaurant scene.
Looks like it might be a nice solution for getting media from my computer and onto my TV without buying a fancy AppleTV.
“We just can’t stop being nice to Iran.”
Infographic porn about the difference between tennis surfaces. Great stuff.
Yet still they can’t make it work!
Best ecards ever.
Awesome use of shadows.
Because Christmas is all about Jesus, Santa, and your local department store.
Looks like they’re going to have to come up with a new name for the South Lake Union Trolly.
If I ever need to ask a boss for a new display again I’m coming armed with this.
Clever, clever stuff.
Furry mascots fighting… how cute!
Get yourself a ice cold glass of pixels.
I think this is the first flash drive that I’d like to own.
I think I enjoyed the close up coffee shots and the barely containing their laughter best. Regardless it’s a great little short from the fellas over at the Big Noob.
“Family tree of Indo-European languages, by the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.”
“Patterning itself after the home of France’s classic Pinot Noir, the Willamette Valley is becoming a wine country destination unto itself.”
Surprising but very cool.
Far too clever.
What’s up Jimmy!
Hilarious short by the Coudal Partners. It definitely hits a bit close to home but damn its funny.
Huge surprise.
Awesome. If anybody is looking to get me an early birthday present I wouldn’t mind one of these manuals.
I can’t help but get a little excited about this but even for me this might be a little too much.
Wow. Looks really shouldn’t be able to get you that far.
“Mugs to help you mix your favourite brew to just-how-you-like-it by matching the colour guide on the inside.”
Mariners, mustaches, oh my!
“I was born a programmer. The rest is just implementation detail.” Worth the long read.
Infographic highlighting the excessive pay gap between workers and CEOs.
Garrett Dimon on colors for his bug tracker. He’s gearing up to write a series this week on his development of a bug tracking tool that looks to be fantastic.
There’s actually too many things I want to quote from this interview of one of my favorite “designers”.
“Rather than defining each country by size, these computer-generated modified maps - or cartograms - redraw the globe with each country’s size proportionate to its strengths, or weaknesses, in a whole series of categories.”
Still funny.
I love it. Here’s to wishing something like this makes it into the final release.
Scariest infographic I’ve ever seen.
Apparently the bear is okay… humiliated, but okay.
I got to design the new Baseball Leaflet which was a ton of fun. If you’re a MLB fan be sure and check it out!
See money doesn’t make you happy.
“You Are Here tracks and displays the paths of visitors traveling through a large public space.” Very cool, but also a bit creepy. Sure it produces some fascinating images but it feels a bit too Big Brother for my tastes.
“Keyclick is a Mac OS X preference pane that provides adjustable audio feedback for keystrokes, mouse clicks, and the scroll wheel.”
Interesting to see some new infographic ideas. I definitely like it better then pie charts, but do they communicate better?
Great article about writing by Bronwyn Jones.
Looks like a great clean, lightweight CSS framework.
Similar Diversity is an information graphic which opens up a new perspective at the topics religion and faith by visualizing the Holy Books of five world religions. Communalities and differences of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are s
Get a statuette of your Mii.
Over-packaged paperclips. Brilliant.
“You don’t want to make me take off my puka shell necklace.”
“NetworkLocation adds a whole other dimension to using locations in Mac OS X. Leverage your existing network locations with powerful extras, like launching applications, or running scripts.”
Awesome infographics depicting some enlightening statistics.
“At its simplest level Faceball involves two people hitting beachballs at each other’s faces.”
Tetris with states. I love the concept but after trying to place Idaho just right 5 times in a row I was pretty annoyed with it.
A prototype of a phone created for Apple back in 1983.
“Researchers at Harvard have created a robotic fly that could one day be used for covert surveillance and detecting toxic chemicals.”
The free open-source video platform.
Looks like some handy bookmarklets for t
“What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book—our planet’s cultural legacy.”
Nice thing is you can access your data even if you don’t have Knox installed.
A street-art version of a “choose your own adventure” story, the project unfolds on the streets of the Mission District in SF, each stencil connected to the next by arrows and using the surrounding streetscape as illustrations.
Not all new products are necessarily better.
Mmmm… paper.
“I feel like ctrl-alt-deleting myself.”
Why do we think this is okay?
Bend, Balloons, and ballyhoo.
I still feel it should be Springfield, OR since Matt Groening’s from Portland but whatever.
Hilarious. Great piece by John Frank Weaver.
Want an iPhone but you’re stuck in your contract? Use this to trade out of your old plan and onto AT&T.
But the regular iPhone is so good! I guess if you want to go cheap…
Visual representation of the different Apple form factors trough the years.
“For one thing, added the Auckland University of Technology professor, the squid would yield calamari rings the size of tractor tires.”
“It’s like America running out of steak,” said Tadashi Yamagata, vice chairman of Japan’s national union of sushi chefs. “Sushi without tuna just would not be sushi.”
Cool vertical docking stand for your MacBook. Looks like it’s adjustable for MacBook Pros too.
Great video originally made for a Colorado high school. The amount of information that’s being put out onto the web is truly staggering.
I didn’t think I could want it more. I was wrong.
Hilarious video mocking Microsoft’s new Surface commercial
“Reproduces through asexual budding”
Recap of WWDC talk on iPhone development.
It’s also easy to see that the more you attend church the more likely you don’t believe in evolution. Not a huge surprise there.
It’s amazing how close some people look to their digital selves and then how others don’t look anything like them.
Looks to be a great subversion client.
Get your “Hawkeye” on.
Looks like a handy app to turn your computer into an alarm.
“We were cohesive. But lots of teams are good and lots of teams stick together… we came together into something more. That’s all I can tell you. It was more.” This article gave me chills, and is definitely one of my favorite articles I’ve read online.
A potential tequila shortage!
Amnesty International’s Eyes On Darfur project is using high-resolution satellite imagery to show evidence of atrocities being committed in Darfur in hopes of enabling action.
The only thing that’s bad about these is that fact that I have to wait until June 29th.
I think the cat looks scarier underwater then if I saw one on land.
Google’s new tool to help websites improve goal completion rates by running A/B type tests.
“It goes against everything you think you know about picnic meats, but it sure is tasty.”
Fairly obvious but still funny stuff. I like the “Focus on the iRan” line.
To run or not to run?
“I love what you’ve done with the Grey.”
These look like they could be really useful.
Great lessons on business, but a big blemish on a very cool magazine.
Sure, it’s an old sketchy nuclear facility where they contaminated billions of gallons of water, but still, how cool would it be to see where the plutonium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal was created?
Slides from Aaron Gustafson’s Webvisions presentation. Great tips on creating and styling web forms.
A nice article on one of my favorite typefaces.
Looks like a really simple way to store my movies on my external hard drive and stream them through the AppleTV.
“Ruby script to parse the user xml feed from twitter and return either your most recent ‘tweet’, or an array of all your recent tweets.”
A handy way to add inline bookmarks to Simplelog.
It cracks me up they changed their logo for the U.S. because japanese characters, katakana, are “cooler” then than roman ones.
Inspired by all the old horse ties all over Portland people are encouraged to tie up their toy ponies.
Great RSS video explaining RSS in plain english from Lee Lefever.
Some great geek humor.
Raising cash for every ‘stache… brilliant.
Well, I guess if we keep screwing up our planet there might be a new one a mere 120 trillion miles away.
One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X. Can’t wait to play with it because it looks, well, wow.
Cool use of old materials to brighten up that apartment windowsill with some green.
I guess I’m supposed to care… meh.
The Garrett Murray Podcast is looking for a new name. Help them out and win an iPod nano or iPod Shuffle and some snazzy DS Buttons. It’s an hilarious podcast so check it out regardless.
A drop dead gorgeous online game that’s fun to play too.
A flickr photoset.
Organization that sets up designers and developers with non-profit organizations.
Business wants to love design, but it’s often an awkward romance.
Looks like a slick way to create your own flickr badge using JSON and the DOM. If it gets rid of that annoying flicker when the page loads then I’m sold.
Good first impressions of Dashcode
Viva Chimpe!
Great tip to create reference files to store in iTunes which will then show up in Front Row. If this tip works with AppleTV I’m going to have a hard time resisting the urge to buy one.
Great reference site if you’re looking to find an illustrator. Each week the diferent artists draw a ficitional character or something based off that theme. A good place to compare a lot of illustrators styles quickly and it’s fun to just flip through.
A good list to follow when doing a heuristic analysis of a web application.
Great collection of free symbol signs from AIGA.
Good reference material for print style sheets.
