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Thank You For Smoking opening main titles
Beautiful design and typography. (mov)
(tags: animation design film typography)

Domain name statistics and popularity
Interesting stats on domain names and their availability
(tags: web statistics domains internet)

OK/Cancel – Non-designed sites are better?
Amusing response to this question about design.
(tags: design humor usability web)

YouTube Imposes 10 Minute Limit
A major pioneer in sharing video content on the web takes a step backwards in the name of copyrights. Solution: Start breaking your long video clips into 10 minute segments.
(tags: youtube video web)

Social Design Notes: Guerilla Wayfinding
Compass directions to get your bearings when exiting the NYC subway. Someone has [...]

Over the weekend I watched Grizzly Man and I was amazed. It covers the life and death of Timothy Treadwell who spent 13 summers in the Alaskan wilderness living with the Alaskan brown bears. He filmed his last 5 summers there, and the film is made up mostly of his footage, along with [...]

Another Juggling Routine
A stage full of jugglers synchronized to music (mpg)
(tags: juggling video)

New Art School Confidential Trailer
(mov)
(tags: film trailer)

Brak’s School Daze
Brak hires a monkey. 7 or 8 years old now, but it never gets old. (YouTube)
(tags: humor video brak)

It’s a great time to start a business
37signals makes a great response to this list
(tags: business startup web2.0 internet)

Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
SNL infomercial on how to get out of debt. (mov)
(tags: humor snl video)

I was out for a walk this afternoon, around the extended Capitol Hill neighborhood and I managed to stumble onto the massive crime scene of this multiple murder, and suicide.

At first I had no idea what all of the police activity was for, but then I ran into someone I knew. [...]

Despite numerous turnovers and looking like they had lost it in regulation, the Huskies managed to eke out a victory over the Huskies in overtime. In the final minutes of regulation, the Huskies got a lucky three-point play to cut the Huskies lead. And then in the final seconds, the Huskies sank a [...]

Google GeoAds beta
Sponsored results on Google Local Maps
(tags: google maps local advertising)

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!
Impressive live music and video sampling/mixing/scratching. (YouTube video)
(tags: music video audio sampling)

Indie Record Store Clerks
(Google video)
(tags: humor music video)

This past weekend I decided to liven up my kitchen a bit with the Back to Basics TEM500 Egg & Muffin 2-Slice Toaster and Egg Poacher. I think “Egg McToaster” is a little easier to say. The contraption is pretty neat. The toaster itself is straightforward, but the egg compartment is [...]

Microsoft: Tracking bugs back to specific programmers
(streaming video works best in IE)
(tags: humor video microsoft)

Typographic History at a Glance
(tags: typography type history design)

Brad Bird Directs Pixar’s Next, Ratatouille
Can we just clone Brad Bird and have him crank out Pixar movies every year?
(tags: animation pixar film)

Design Eye for the List Guy: Craigslist Redesign
A group of designers tackle Craigslist at SXSW
(tags: design craigslist sxsw)

Lucky Number Slevin – Trailer
(tags: movie trailer)

Drawing Restraint 9 – Trailer
Matthew Barney + Bjork = More [...]