Fairweather Zealot

Or working ON the weekend, as the case may be. But the skies are bright, the weather is warm and Shari no longer has a kidney stone so it’s not a bad place to be, even if the house needs to be dealt with. So, I’ll be out making the house look prettier, feeding the birds and eventually putting in some hours at my real job so that I can go to NC in 10 days without any guilt.

Linkapalooza

• World’s Sexiest Car Goes Topless – eat your heart out, Jim
• Watch the Rise of Wal-Mart – excellent information visual.
• Zimbabwe devalues currency by 10 zeroes … and old coins cause chaos – this country is collapsing upon itself
• Phantom Diner Appears Only to Drunk Folks (TheOnion)
• Domino’s Scientists Test Limits of What Humans Will Eat – TheOnion (Video) – Funny stuff.
• The Art of Making Sandwiches (NPR) – YUM.

I haven’t gotten around to writing anything (or at least finishing it enough to post), but I have managed to amass quite a few links over the last … well, few months. So block off an huor or so, and have at ‘em! Continue reading

One of these days, I’m going to finish one of the dozen posts I’ve started but not had time to finish… until then, some fun links for you.

• You think YOUR cubicle is bad…
• Archie McPhee – this store has some weird stuff…
• Pass these along to your favorite designers, and keep a copy for yourself!
  24Ways: Font Matrix
  Most available fonts by OS

I had about a half-dozen posts that I started to write months ago, but never got around to finishing. Most of the posts I can dump, but I figured I would put up all of the links that had similarly been sitting in limbo. Continue reading

Really busy right now, but I wanted to put something out there that I heard today:

“Live every week like it’s Shark Week.” Continue reading

No real time to write today – crazy busy with 10 projects for 8 products spread among 3 clients – and at least half of them are due tomorrow… just taking a quick break to offer some fun reading instead. Continue reading

Links

• Vick hides dope in water bottle? – This guy is just going to self-destruct
• 7 Accessibility Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make – Part 1 | Part II – via 456 Berea St.
• Snowslide – watch out for those crazy drivers!
• Best Body Painting – probably NSFW.
• (Faux) Klingons in the White House – hysterical…

I’ve got about a half-dozen half-finished posts, but for today I’ve got links. Get your links heeeerrr….

Artistic

Latte Art | great YouTube video (via Cameron Moll)
Word Art | if you look closely the whole drawing is done with words (via Airbag)

Design

An Event Apart – Boston | in March, and I’m hoping to be there.

Shout Out

All of you parents | go get Van’s new t-shirts (via furiousBall)

Humor

My Box in a Box  |  Best parody yet of the now-famous SNL Skit – and it’s locally done (Philly, that is)

This is hysterical – Gnarls Barkley and his entourage put on a STAR WARS show at the MTV Movie Awards.

Time Wasters and Nearly Important Stuff »

• A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail
• 6 Degrees of Samuel Jackson Photoshops
• A List Apart’s Design Holy Grail
• 456 Berea Street: CSS3 Selectors Explained”
• Nittany Lion Dancing (.avi)
• Climate Shifts Pointing to Irreparable Change
• Global Warming Endangering World’s Birds
• Cool animation: DAVE School Movie: Runners. Also, check out NASA Seals
• YouTube – Harrison Ford on the StarWars Xmas Special
• Current styles in web design