February 2010
57 posts
Flickr Short URL Generator →
matthewb:
Site and bookmarklet by Matthew Freedman to create Flickr base-58 short URLs from an image’s full path. Update: Na Wong has another bookmarklet solution that displays the URL in a pretty overlay and sends it directly to Twitter. (via Preshit Deorukhkar)
Color + Design Blog / A Bold New Color World -... →
aka “How to confuse the people in Europe” who could see the site before the post explaining it! :D I could be wrong, but this post was pretty buried if not!
Annoying that I can’t have a proper play with the new site now, some things to get used to certainly. Oh, and I managed to miss my 300th Lover. Sugarlumps. {:(
CoverSpy →
This is both great and utterly creepy at the same time! Basically they spy on people reading on trains, in bars, parks etc. in New York, then record the book covers (with brief details of the reader) here.
Ironic Sans: Idea: The Russian Roulette Chair →
You go through your mundane workday without anything exciting happening. But what if you had a chair that was constructed in such a way that every time you sat in it, there was a 1 in 3,000 chance it would break apart, sending you falling to the floor? You’d have a little bit of nervous excitement every time you sat. How often do you sit in your chair? Four or five times a day? More? With a 1 in...
Blank pages of the sidewalk →
bobulate:
The city of Saint Paul is stamping poems into their sidewalks:
Sidewalks are the blank pages of our city as a book. If you look closely, however, you see traces of text, such as Knutson Construction or Standard Sidewalk, stamped discreetly into some of the panels. I wondered if we could borrow this simple stamping idea, enlarge the stamp to a prominent size, and give our poets this...
The Ampersand Project – A Beginning - M. Finley... →
So far this summer has been pretty laid back, but I have been keeping myself pretty busy screen printing. In the past month I began exploring a new subject matter in my screen prints— ampersands. I first became interested in ampersands as a typographic form after reading The History of the Ampersand. Shortly after reading this I started filling page after page of my sketchbook with ampersands in...
The Daily Ampersand Project : Rachel Lewis... →
The Rules: - Every day, draw one ampersand. They will be hand drawn/traced from an actual real font, or taken from a photograph of any ampersands I find in the real world, or they will be designed by me. - I have given myself no limitations on the medium - pencil, biro, collage, paint, stencil, anything. - My limitations are that I must not use a computer to create the ampersands, save for...
Please Rob Me →
Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those messages in which people tell you where they are? Pretty annoying, eh. Well, they’re actually also potentially pretty dangerous. We’re about to tell you why. Don’t get us wrong, we love the whole location-aware thing. The information is very interesting and can be used to create some pretty awesome applications....
Scanwiches →
Scans of sandwiches for education and delight.
If you don’t feel hungry after looking at this, there’s something wrong with you! :D
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
José González (18)
Buddy Guy (15)
Daughtry (13)
Alison Krauss (13)
Hinder (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Font Aid IV: Ampersand Entries | Typophile →
Get a preview of some of the entries for the Haiti fundraiser font.
#71: Missing White Woman Syndrome
american-apologies:
Do the names Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy, Elizabeth Smart, Natalee Holloway, or Runaway Bride mean anything to you? What about Romona Moore, Tamika Huston, or LaToyia Figueroa? Probably not as much I bet. The difference between the two is the first group consists of high-profile cases which involve a missing white woman and which get caught up in the mass media news circus,...
Members of Parliament →
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Find your MP online. USeful
BBC News - South African owners of camera found in... →
This is genius! :)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Florence + The Machine (20)
Drive-By Truckers (20)
Crooked Still (16)
Paloma Faith (10)
Little Boots (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The Robin Hood Tax » How it works - a tiny tax on... →
The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax on bankers that would raise billions to tackle poverty and climate change, at home and abroad. By taking an average of 0.05% from speculative banking transactions, hundreds of billions of pounds would be raised every year. That’s easily enough to stop cuts in crucial public services in the UK, and to help fight global poverty and climate change. #RHT
Letters of Note: Houdini's Last Trick →
At New York’s Shelton Hotel on August 5th, 1926, in plain view of invited journalists and using no breathing apparatus, Harry Houdini lay in a sealed casket at the bottom of a swimming pool for an hour and a half. His motivation for the feat was the opportunity to expose Egyptian fakir Rahman Bey, a man who at the time was wowing crowds with the same stunt but attributing his survival to...
