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.

Humor

• MythBusters Unedited: Do Pretty Girls Fart? Hysterical.
• Copy Goes Here – a witty and humorous film from Coudal Partners
• Finishing the Game (video) – This looks awesome: “Anchorman” meets Bruce Lee
• My Roommate is Such a Dick! – Revenge is sweet.
• Indexed – College Majors in the U.S. The stuff she comes up with is amazing – make sure to look at the larger size.

Design

• 2008 Logo Trends
• Free Icons from DryIcons.com and some more from Famfamfam
• Adobe Edge: A first look at Adobe Thermo (video) – this looks like a cool application – I want, I want!
• Font-rific t-shirts from Subtraction Okay – this might just me finding these cool.
• Business Cards Flickr Set Some nice examples here
• iPhone Wallpapers Pool on Flickr. Also have this iPhone wallpaper site, too.

Tech

• Adobe Flash Accessibility Resource Center – nice set of information for making accessible Flash content. Also see the global Adobe Accessibility Resource Center
• Zoho.com – a great suite of online tools to rival Google Documents.
• Photosynth (from TED) – this is simply amazing technology
• WordPress Plugin Installer

Science and Nature

• Great Beasts Peppered From Space – evidence that mammoths and other ice age creatures were belted with shrapnel from exploding meteorites or asteroids.
• National Geographic – Best Mountain Pictures of 2007. Don’t miss the other collections, too.
• “Sunny 16″ rule (Wikipedia) I’d never heard of this photography rule for shooting in sun without a light meter until Michael posted something about it. Pretty simple and cool concept. And the link to the Ultimate Exposure Computer was pretty cool, too.

Miscellany

• 25 Photographs Taken at Exactly the Right Time
• Star Wars: Episode III Matte Paintings (from the artist)
• 10 Unexpected Uses for Beer
• Crazy Sexy Cancer – a great independent documentary about one woman’s life with cancer.
• I was looking up the bar where I used to work in Boulder, CO, and found these articles: The West End Tavern Is Always Fun, Comments on Yelp.com & MP3 files of Allen Ginsburg, Art Lande and a jazz ensemble playing there.
• Yahoo’s “World of Star Wars”
• Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader Pretty cool, but it’s not a small device (I’ve seen one on the train). And why do the eBooks cost more than paper ones??

These are… Just ODD

• Man Found with Maggots in Eyes Dies (via Yahoo News)
• A ‘Thumb’ Drive
• Some odd quotes: Kurt Vonnegut, Doug Larson
• Hello Kitty Darth Vader – So, so, so wrong.

• 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

Released from Link Limbo

• New Dutch Accessibility Law is Awesome – from 456 Berea Street; also the English tranlastion, provided by Gerben
• United abandons passengers in Cheyenne, WY
• Who’s Responsible for the Experience – Adaptive Path – interesting.
• Knife-proof school uniforms – okay, the Apocalypse is upon us now…
• 8 ways to drive a graphic designer mad (Ghisroy.com) | Brilliant. I’m going to do these right now.

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

Some Stuff to Keep You Occupied

• Group launches plan to save 187 bird species – where do I send my dollar?
• Worst weather attributed to global warming – what, first recorded typhoons in Oman? You call that proof?
• DesignerSlashModel.com – Hysterical design video.
• Banji (Chinese River Dolphin) likely extinct – and the list continues to grow…
• Ancient microbes ‘revived’ in lab – and global warming could release these eldest bugs back into nature. Fun, fun!
• Be Kind Rewind – Jack Black Strikes again
• iPhone Specs Revealed (the Onion) – I want those lightsaber effects.
• iPhoney – how will YOUR design look on the iPhone?
• Safari 3 Public Beta – now for Windows, too!

Cows Turning the Tables, and Other Oddities

• Cows eating chickens – Chick-Fil-A is going to have a field day with this one
• Aquarium Fish Threatened with Extinction Just Months after Discovery What a cool fish – let’s wipe it out!
• Virb – I’m not quite sure what it does completely, but the design is stellar.

• 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…

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)

• 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