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NEW YEARS RULIN’S

Woodie Guthrie

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LeRoy Grannis

† August 12, 1917—February 3, 2011

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A computer is quite dead.

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Fall Video of the Month: January 2011

Sounds like these kids need to learn the three Rs. Via SVD.se.

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Terraria

You’ll need: A clear glass container with a lid Pebbles Charcoal Organic potting soil Plants

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Chuck Close

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait … Continue reading

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Viktor & Rolf, Tori Amos, and Comic Sans

Via Not Naked

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Taking assholes to task

Via A Continuous Lean.

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Love Will Tear Us Apart

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Buddy Rich and Jerry Lewis

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Mingus

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A Sun Halo Beyond Stockholm

Explanation: What’s happened to the Sun? Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a large lens. In the above case, however, there are actually millions of lenses: ice crystals. As water freezes in the upper atmosphere, small, … Continue reading

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Match ignition, 2000 fps

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A Nice Cup of Tea

Happy 2011! If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling … Continue reading

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“The Queen”

No words…

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Evolution of “Document” Icon Shape

Digibarn: Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (via Seen, Said, Heard)

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After Laughter

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Stamps

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Endings

Books and movies have endings. The Web doesn’t. Thus taking breaks on the Web feels so unnatural. John Maeda

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