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February 18th, 2009

24 Creative Business Card Designs

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40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

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February 17th, 2009

Snapped this photo at the Seattle Home Show yesterday. Ummm, that’s “basements”, ladies. Basements.

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February 16th, 2009

Cameron Moll's 20 tips for better conference speaking

I agree with everything, except my average number of slides per minute is zero.

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February 14th, 2009

Top 10 Disastrous David Letterman Interviews

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February 10th, 2009

I still can’t believe Entourage will not show you any emails you receive if they have a “+” in the subject line. Stupidest bug ever? Yes.

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February 9th, 2009

When are we going to give up the idea that the Play button needs to be right smack dab in the middle of the subject in order for it to be effective?

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When No News Is Bad News

A solemn look at why the decline of newspapers and journalism as a whole is bad for society. I agree, and yet, I don't see an immediate answer.

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Went to a cobbler for the first time ever and was told my shoes are “unrepairable”. A lot of shoes are made to be disposable now, I guess.

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Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale

Newsweek examines the realities of trying to make a living by AdSense alone.

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Solitude and Leadership:

Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information…

Takes a little while to get going, but overall a great article about the virtues of seeking solitude from distractions in order to develop your own original thoughts.

“I think you’ve got a pretty good imagination, despicability-wise!”

“Look Around You - Computer Games”

Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this BBC series before. Brilliant. Make sure to watch them all. (via daringfireball)

10 New Year’s resolutions for designers:

Do you think Chelsea Clinton asks herself if her mom would understand something complex? No. Because her mom is a badass.

How Doctors Die:

If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity.

This is the most concise, easily understood article on the perils of end-of-like care in the United States I’ve ever read. It is a must-read, and frankly, a must-heed, in my opinion. (via kottke)

Lost Type Co-op | Browse Fonts:

A nice collection of pay-what-you-will typefaces from Tyler Galpin and Riley Cran.

How to interview a designer with the perfect design exercise:

These sorts of tests are common for engineering hires, but it’s nice to see an example of a good design-oriented one.

Jessica Hische's Lovely Blog:

Embarrassed I had never seen this until today. Lovely work all around. (via drawar)

This recently unearthed video of Steve Jobs at work during the early days of NeXT is a remarkable look inside how he ran meetings, how he created culture at his startups, and how others — like Joanna Hoffman around the 11 minute mark — called B.S. on his reality distortion field. It’s also remarkable in that it reveals Jobs to be a man who picks carrots in pressed work shirts.

Paper Birds by Diana Beltran Herrera

View.js — A simple, lightweight, jQuery photo viewer for the web

The Republican Clown College by WMxdesign. These are so great. Make sure to check out the whole set.

BuiltWith: Web Technology Usage Statistics:

Sometimes when you are deciding on technologies to use on a new site (e.g. jQuery vs. YUI or MS SQL vs. MySQL) it’s instructive to examine what everyone else is doing. BuiltWith has an incredible amount of trending data to help you out in that regard. Very, very cool.

A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design:

Lots of good thinking here. No solutions, but a nice reminder that two-dimensional touch interfaces are transitional, not permanent.