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Sweet work by David Carvalho at HelloKarpa.com

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  • artist, designer, portfolio, portugal

 

Neo Tech, designed by Sebastian Lester

Beautifully geometrical, Neo Tech is a superbly designed sans font. We have been using it for a client at work for a couple of months already, and it’s a joy to use. It’s available from fonts.com for about S$80.

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  • font, Sebastian Lester, technologic, typeset

 

Fernando Torres sliding on the turf, after scoring Liverpool's equalizer against Chelsea

Fans owning shares in their club is a fantastic idea. Being a Liverpool fan, I’d love to put my money where my mouth is. But the expected £5,000 contribution per person is a wee bit steep. What cash-strapped fans could possibly do is find a few other fan friends and pool their cash together to get the club away from the current American owners.

I’m hoping this initiative works out. If you want to stay in the loop, sign up at the Share Liverpool FC website.

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  • debt, english football, fans, liverpool

 

The Design Police bring bad design to justice!

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  • art direction, craft, design police, kerning

 

So many bizarre articles, so little time.

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  • bizarre, unusual, weird, wikipedia

 

A nice graphic time line showing the effects of stopping smoking now have on your body

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  • cancer, health, heart disease, nicotine, quit, smoking

 

A humourous, if not apt, depiction of the current state of US economics and policy

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  • america, economy, george bush, war

 

Super lighting work by celebrity lighting artists, UVA for possibly one of the best songs on Battles‘ 2007 album, Mirrored.

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  • band, last.fm, light, live, math rock, Music, reactive

 

'A beautiful print from NoPattern, titled ‘The Exact Moment’

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  • artist, photographer, prints

 

‘Fuck This Book’ collects images of real public signs that have been mischievously altered with the word Fuck

Fuck This Book contains pictures of public signs that have been subverted with the mother of all four letter words. Completely addictive and hilarious, you can find out more by visiting the suitably titled website. If you cannot get enough of the book, you can also get Fuck These Postcards.

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  • fuck, postcard, signs, sticker

 
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  • cessation, health, quit, smoking

 

Don’t tase me, bro! Stop! Is nobody else seeing this?
Although the phrase now is not quite the American cultural touchstone it was four months ago, it still makes for a bloody funny sound bite, even on your chest.

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  • blue, funny, joke, shop, tase, taser

 

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

›› Mark Twain

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  • insults, mark twain, samuel langhorne clemens

 

Fantastic pictures of an abandoned underground Soviet submarine base, off Ukraine

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  • military, soviet, submarines, ukraine

 

[View in Wall Street from Corner of Broadway; Engraving from Thirty Years' Progress of the United States] A view of Wall Street in 1867, when things were presumably simpler

It is always an assumption on Wall Street that it is not the individuals that lose money; it’s the system. You can fail big time, but you can also succeed big time.

›› IHT explains the way Wall Street operates

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  • money, stock market, subprime, wall street

 

My Favourite Spot, by Belle & Boo

Sweet and beautiful illustrations by Mandy Sutcliffe, a Brit illustrator who has a great passion for her work. She has some very nice prints, cards, stickers, badges and other handmade stuff for sale at her store.

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  • british, illustration, painting

 

Amazing works of art with packing tape by Mark Khaisman

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  • concept, packing tape, transparency

 

Michael Stahl-David and the very hot Odette Yustman in Cloverfield

Sitting in the front row for a movie about a Godzilla-like monster wreaking havoc in New York with Blair Witch-style camera work was not really that different from sitting at the last row for a movie about a Godzilla-like monster wreaking havoc in New York with Blair Witch-style camera work.

They should have laced the popcorn with some Emetrol.

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  • cinema, hollywood, monster, movies, nausea, new york

 

Photo of Mother’s office in London

Nice write-up on one of the ‘coolest’ ad agency in the world: Mother.

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  • agency, Design, hip, london, uk

 

‘Share’ is Facebookspeak for ‘advertise’. Sign up to Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advert for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends. We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships.

›› A fierce, detailed attack on Facebook on the Guardian

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  • big brother, facebook, politics

 

Stefan Bruggemann's thoughts up in lights

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  • exhibition, installation, lights

 

Tata Nano (1 lakh, US$ 2,500)unveiled at the New Delhi Auto Expo today, boasting a 30-horsepower 624-cc engine; a four-speed manual transmission; a disc/drum brake setup; room for five, claimed fuel economy of 54 US miles per gallon, no power steering, only a fuel gauge, speedometer, oil light and car meets safety and environmental standards.

More power to the people, of course, but the people better be prepared for higher fuel costs, more pollution and more congestion.

(That is indeed a bit rich coming from someone who owns a car.)

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  • automobile, cheap, fuel economy, tata

 

I freely share my Wi-Fi network, and I could never articulate properly to my pals why I do it. Bruce Schneier, however, very eloquently states my case.

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  • Internet, network, wi-fi

 
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  • device, hacker, hardware, open, recorder, video

 

Woman spotted yesterday reading today's paper

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  • loop, photoshop, recursive, time

 

The Sunlight to Petrol, or S2P, project has found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or petrol.

My question is, why the fuck aren’t we using sunlight to power our offices and homes in the first place?

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  • energy, fuel, Science, solar, technology

 

It is John Edwards’ voice that has been systematically excluded from the debate. It’s been excluded by the propaganda arm of the corporate elites who stand to lose the most if his campaign is successful.

›› The Daily Kos gets all riled up

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  • john edwards, politics, president, usa

 

I’ve started re-working the site, though I may re-do everything at the last minute. I am migrating to the free and extensible Wordpress finally, after many aborted attempts.

The old stuff (2002-2006) will stay archived, warts and all. So, if your bookmarks are still pointing to the old random notes, please update them to point here. (The RSS feed will redirect automagically once I am done with the site.)

Please stay tuned, as we continue dressing up.

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  • blog, redesign, rss, wordpress

 

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