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Recent Distractions
Words
This is a great little film produced by Radiolab and NPR. “Words” is a great example of continuity editing, the stuff Hitchcock was so good.
Where Hitchcock used techniques in continuity editing to foreshadow events, build suspense and cast a certain mood over the scenes in his films, “Words” takes a much more whimsical approach. It’s clever and fun, if not a little sentimental.
The Pet Penguin
This family in japan owns a pet king penguin, and they’ve trained it so that it will walk all the way to the fish market with its little backpack to get fish everyday. it’s super cute… via @jina
Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
“Clearly meant to have a lively, “fun” feel, the painful video is so over-the-top bad we thought it first it must be a hoax. But Microsoft’s in-house blogger has been touting these events, which are being organized by an apparently well-established marketing company that specializes in getting people to shill products to their friends at sketchy “house parties.” Said marketing company owns the YouTube channel where this video appeared.”
Microformats DevCamp
This will be the first ever microformatsDevCamp. This is an event for authors, designers, publishers, developers and engineers building pages, sites, and tools with microformats, is just around the corner, at Automattic in San Francisco.
This is a fantastic opportunity to come out and mingle with other microformatters, learn what it’s all about and share your ideas. Come out and meet the Object Adjective team. Looking forward to seeing you there.
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Bookmarks
- ColorBlendy
Love this little app by @shazow and @limedaring. Blend colors with different modes, like multiply, overlay, dodge. - Hipmunk: Better Flight Search
This is the best flight search I think I've ever used. Thank you for simplifying the user interface and delivering concise, meaning data that you can skim through. - Moustache Buttons!
I thought the moustache craze needed some realism so here’s a set of buttons made of skin and hair. Useless? Maybe. Hilarious and beautiful? You betcha! - iPhone 4 GUI PSD (Retina Display)
For anyone designing for the retina display (640×960) it really is quite a different experience. When you work at 100% everything seems absolutely huge but small details get lost when viewing it on the device. - blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. - Kitten in a Banket
Kittens in a Blanket. Baby dills wrapped in cream cheese and wonder bread, chilled and serve with dirty martinis or sauvignon blanc. - Fake - Mac OS X Web Browser Automation and Webapp Testing Made Simple.
Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction - I'm Comic Sans, Asshole.
Listen up. I know the shit you've been saying behind my back. You think I'm stupid. - Human Bones Used to Make Art
Francois Robert has created a series of powerful artworks made out of real human bones to remind people about the consequences of violence. - tantek / NewBase60
A base 60 numbering system using only ASCII numbers and letters.
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