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• Sounds Suspicious. Unless… The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg brings a dose of sanity to the ACORN hysteria. (Hat tip to John Gruber’s Twitter feed)
• Hey Sarah Palin “Is it true? I am so fuckin’ scared of you…”
• The Choice The New Yorker endorses Obama.
• Obama Meets Bartlett Sorkin summons his West Wing best for a little pep talk.
• Dear AIGA… Jeffrey Zeldman on the continued non-presence of web design at the AIGA.
• The Obama and McCain Tax Plans, Drawn to Scale
• Has Future Shock Arrived? Provocative musings from Adam Greenfield on what the Palin nomination may be saying about tech and society.
• The American Idol Candidate Roger Ebert pegs lowest common denominator appeal for what it is.
• “Pour Pritt” Hot mural building action, featuring Michael C. Place.
• Winged Victories: The Soaring Ambition of Santiago Calatrava “To do simple things is very difficult.”
• NYTimes on BW’s Business Exchange Yes, we’ve been busy. Very busy.
• ECMAScript 4 Passed Over Next generation JavaScript to include only incremental changes. The politics of Adobe and Microsoft aside, this feels a lot like the “nobody wins” scenario to me.
• Changing Lanes The New Yorker on McCain’s energy policy shifts and the fallacies of offshore drilling.
• Ideas Are Just A Multiplier of Execution Show me the execution, baby.
• A List Apart’s Second Annual Survey For people who make websites, naturally.
• The Scrolling Experience and “The Fold” Chris Fahey on that annoying little pseudo-measurement we all love to hate.
• Onstage Ombudsman Jeff Veen regarding the onstage audience rep at his upcoming Start conference.
• Equal or Greater Value Does it make you a bad person if you snort out loud when you see this?
• Burt & Ernie: Hand Over the Ring YouTube may indeed be the greatest gift to humanity the Intertubes has ever produced.
• That’s How We Roll Tagged in serifs, no less.
• A Missile Too Many The Revolutionary Guard does Photoshop
• The Handwriting of Type Designers Only makes me feel worse about the ongoing devolution of my own chicken scratch.
• Unexpectedly Quit You can’t spell crash without CS.
• Moving Towards a Web Design Curriculum Yours truly, doing a little blogging for BusinessWeek’s NEXT blog.
• Airbag: Drucker “Why should any of us care what a box factory says when we’re in the landscaping business?”
• SVA’s New MFA in Interaction Design Terrific looking new program, chaired by Liz Danzico. Seems like something of an insititutional landmark for interaction design.
• Apple’s Script Make JavaScript Apple’s default OS scripting language? Hell yes.
• The Fall of Conservatism “…These are the spasms of nerve endings in an organism that’s brain-dead.”
• The Get Out Clause UK band cobbles together music video by performing in front of security cameras, then filing Freedom of Information Act requests for the footage. (via Slashdot)
• The Shape of Things to Come WSJ on nontraditional trademarks. (Yamaha has one for rooster tails. No, really.)
• Even the Battlestar Music is Great How many TV shows get live gigs at the Roxy? (via Shaun Inman)
• After Avalanche, City Embraces Green Capital politics and conservation at the end of a gun in Alaska.
• When Obama Wins… We’ve moved on from the bicycle, folks.
• Amazon Sues New York Over Internet Sales Tax Collection
• The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit The corporate Mac ascendant.
• A Big “If You” to the Process
• code.flickr.com New Flickr developer site, popping with the good stuff.
• The Landscapes of Levi van Veluw
• Trapped Stuck in an elevator for 41 hours. And yes, this is the building I work in. Comforting, no?
• Ronald McDonald is Movin’ On Up
• Kindle Packaging The device might be a dud, but the packaging sure is pretty. (via Drawn!)
• The Return of the Paranoid Style How the Iraq War and George W. Bush sent the movie industry back to its favorite era.
• RegExr Online RegEx testing tool from ActionScript wunderkind Grant Skinner.
• Decision or Bug? The question of text resizing and pixel units resurfaces with the IE 8 beta.
• Expired Movie Rentals Still Taking Up Space on iPhone Fun little bug I ran into earlier today. Luckily there is a fix that doesn’t require a full restore (for most folks).
• Poolga Nice set of iPhone wallpapers.
• IE8 Version Targeting Reversal An about-face from the Redmond crew.
• Draw Doc Venture… or Die Trying! Hat tip to Ethan Marcotte.
• Morgan Spurlock Is My New Hero (Again) “Supersize Me”, “30 Days”, and now this.
• It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Apple Stock! “Pros” basing Apple stock calls on–get this–Jobs’ flight schedules.
• The WaSP IE8 Version Targeting Roundtable Listen, learn, discuss.
• We The Robots “A tragic/comic alloy.”
• Getting Away With It Khoi Vinh on the “Sagmeister Phenomenon.”
• The Non-Fontogenic Candidates Look for them in your grocer’s freezer aisle.
• Too Small to Fail Bruce Nussbaum on the recent disruptions to the microfinance movement in Kenya and Pakistan.
• Daring Fireball: Tweet Dropping Noticed this too, and agree “All/Some” is way better. Imagine only getting every fifth e-mail.
• WSJ.com Won’t Go Fully Free Or, “Rupert Blinks.”
• IE7 “Forced” Upgrade Coming This is a Good Thing, folks.
• Design Police Visual Enforcement Kit They forgot, “Excel is not a mockup tool.”
• 3D Head Tracking with a Hacked Wii “I wanna see some games!” (via Motionographer)
• Squat for the Win Utterly slimeball domain squatting tactics being employed by Network Solutions. (via Daring Fireball)
• FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-payment Must… contain… giggle fit…
• The Naked Campaign Video series with New Yorker illustrator Steve Brodner. (via Drawn!)
• The Way the Camera Follows Us in Slo-Mo John Gruber with a brief, beautiful anecdote for the new year.
• Ding Dong, Netscape’s Dead
• If You Can’t Say Something Nice About OLPC… Chris Fahey tears XO a new one.
• IE8 Does Acid2 Look at those piggys fly!
• Mystery Bench Baffles City Officials
• CSS Unworking Group More fallout from the Opera suit.
• The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League “A mere 10 schools accounted for half the growth in donations to all US colleges and universities last year.”
• David Brooks Mourns Passing Of Simpler, More Innocent Time In Media; Is Troubled By Crazy Noise The Kids Listen To; Raises Concerns He Is Actually 400 Years Old Sometimes our BusinessWeek bloggers really do make me smile.
• Mr. T is Pretty Handy With Computers
• The Email Standards Project Hallelujah and amen.
• Understanding Web Design A direct, forceful response to pernicious misconceptions about the nature of design and the web.
• Movie Sequels We Need Personal favorite: “The Treasure of Sierra Madre 2: We Still Do Not Require Any Form of Identification”
• Baseball Pitches Illustrated Strikingly well-executed infographics.
• Stuntbox, Citizen Journalist Missed this before, but some of my pics got a passing mention in the Columbia Journalism Review for an article on citizen journalism.
• Stacks Overlays Neat idea that addresses a key flaw in Leopard’s Stacks. (via Daring Fireball)
• Colin Moock: The Politics of JavaScript/ActionScript’s Future
• Making Stuff vs. Making Stuff Up
• Alex Breathes The new synthesized voice in Leopard includes breath noises. Not Uncanny Valley material yet, but getting there.
• The Superest Bearskinrug and Inkfinger pair up for a superhero extravaganza. Curse you, Taste Burglar! The Deep Friar will rise again!
• Bobulate: The Rise of Cutting Corners
• 2007 ALA Web Design Survey Findings 80 pages of statistical goodness.
• Primal Tweet Eric Meyer breaks the Twitter layout with a single scream.
• D-Schools & “Design Thinking” Great discussion over at IxDA. Spot-on opening salvo from Chris Fahey and an equally solid follow-up from Dan Saffer (see the “Morloch” paragraph).
• New Heart Device Allows Cheney To Experience Love
• FSJ: People Say We’re Getting Arrogant Get the fuck away from my statue, jackass.
• Stephen King: What Ails the Short Story It’s not a literary sin to be entertaining. (via Daring Fireball)
• The Phantasmagoric Paintings of Jeff Soto Currently on display at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in NYC.
• Bush & Sons, General Contractors Wil Shiply makes with the (serious) funny.
• The Jeebus Fish I know it’s Zappa, but really this makes me think of Homer Simpson licking toads. (via Daring Fireball)
• I’ll Use Arial When Helvetica Freezes Over Well played, Mr. Lynch. Well played.
• Zeldman.com: Inappropriate “Talk Like a Pirate Day” Remarks
• When They Least Expect It Great art direction on these print ads. (I admit the spider totally gives me the willies.)
• It Was One of Those Weekends…
• Mr. T in da’ BusinessWeek House Tough AND tender.
• Clothes Make the Design Director Issues of professional identity and ego tightly wound into so seemingly simple a thing. What’s your uniform?
• The Three Pixel Conundrum Can’t even begin to recall all the times I’ve run across this. Solution? “You’ll know your dudes better than I do.”
• Floats & Misdemeanors
• 360 Degree Light Field Display Watch and wow. One thousand bonus points for use of a TIE fighter. (via Computerlove)
• Java Needs an Overhaul “There’s something about the Java culture which just seems to encourage obtuse solutions over simplicity.” (via Daring Fireball)
• The 2007 Hipster Olympics
• New York Times Review of Nina Berman’s “Purple Hearts”
• BusinessWeek Featured in iPhone Ad Not every day you get to see some of your work on national TV.
• World’s Worst Chasing Arrows Steven Frank, you are my new hero.
• Yann Le Coroller Try not to smile. I dare you. (via Drawn!)
• Tokyo Flood Control System Practically screams “do your location shoot here”. Reminds me of how Gattaca used the Marin County Civic Center.
• The Dumbest Question I’ve Heard All Day From the rare Apple Q&A session today. Horrified that a reporter would waste the opportunity by being such a twit.
• Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards I love it when I can talk the reporters into covering this kind of stuff.
• Punishing Thai Police with Hello Kitty
• The Work of Chris Buzelli Top-notch painterly work. Dig around and enjoy. (via Illustration Friday)
• Mediatemple AccountCenter for iPhone
• Jeremy Missed My Cartwheels
• The Small Stakes: Music Posters Impossibly damn good silk screen work by Jason Munn. (via Simplebits)
• Bill Moyers Journal: Impeachment “Mr. Attorney General, you answer that question…”
• Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo Aza Raskin writes for A List Apart about “warn-think”. I emphatically agree. (In my experience the primary cause of this is almost always lazy programming.)
• Starving in the Belly of a Whale Fantastic graduate animation project, set to the Tom Waits tune. (Via Drawn!)
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Jakob Nielsen Chris Fahey responds to Nielsen’s latest round of specious (and statistically dubious) hypothesizing.
• A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent “You claimed the damage was caused by a giant mechanical scorpion, which I can only assume is some amusement park ride…” (via Jason Santa Maria)
• The Light Switch That Might Explain a lot About Java To quote a coworker: “If you’re expecting to control Illumination with class LightSwitch, you should use class FakeSunOnOff instead.” (via Daring Fireball)
• Diamond in Your Mind Live single from Tom Waits and Kronos Quartet. “That’s not the holiness I used to know. Know what I’m sayin’?”
• “Maybe” Is One Option Too Many “Maybe is a button that begs to be pushed. Maybe is a magnet for neuroses.”
• There Is No Fold Preach on! (via Hicksdesign)
• Big, Dumb, Slow: How NASA Screwed Up
• The Work of Andy Kehoe Dark, intriguing paintings and illustrations. (via Illustration Friday)
• Just What is a Blog, Anyway? Bruce Nussbaum and I tussle over blog design. (His blog is still in an old template, by the way.) See the comments for my responses.
• It’s Patriotic to Criticize How our generals got so mediocre.
• Blood Pillows Scare the shit out of your bedfellows.
• Bill Moyers Journal: Jon Stewart Also features a wonderfully honest, eloquent eulogy to reporter David Halberstam: “He got it right–we didn’t.”
• Cap’n Horatio Magellan Crunch Master and commander of Her Majesty’s Sugar High (via Daring Fireball)
• Design as Slow-Motion Train Wreck Tales from the dark side of letterpress.
• Simon Rich: The Wisdom of Children “Did you see the politics? It made me angry.” (via Daring Fireball)
• Please Don’t Hurt the Web Every time you use break tags for spacing someone kills a firefox.
• The Yip-Yips Land at Flickr 333 Whoever made these costumes is my new hero. “Not Mars. Nope.”
• We’re Number Two! BusinessWeek.com picks up the number two “Website of the Year” spot in the MPA‘s Inaugural Digital Awards under the Business/News category.
• Laser Tagging Fun with a projector and one big honkin’ green laser. From the fine folks that brought you LED Throwies. (via K10k)
• Koyaanisqatsi vs. The Strokes Footage from the classic Reggio flick recut to “Reptilia”. Works surprisingly well. (via K10k)
• No Direction, Period Apparently Scorsese missed a few gems while he was digging through all that old film. Don’t worry Bobby, we still love you.
• March of the Emperor “Mommy! I wanna go to the zoo and see the Napoleons!” (via The Morning News)
• Storm Troopers Take the Rose Parade The “nerd wit” module in my brain just had a complete meltdown.
• SquishPod iPod shuffle meets Manhattan traffic. Arik came over the other day holding this thing like a dead rat by the tail and asked me to take a few pics of it for his blog. Poor little fellah never had a chance.

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