Jackie Earle Haley on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley's looking pretty happy on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

And don't miss this great Washinton Post article.

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Super Fresh

Now this is nice.

It's from PUBLICIS and the Creative Agency Team Publicis II for Premium-Distributie Grups mints brilliantly called FRESH.

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Thanks to the good folks at 24.

Holy Bat Blog!

Quickly Robin! To the Bat Blog!

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Stay On Top or I Can't Wait!

Check out the Museum Of Modern BETAs.

This a nice little site that gives everyone a hint as to not only what's on the horizon but what's on the minds of those hoping to be the next big thing scooped up by Google.

Updated each Saturday, MoMB lists the 50 most anticipated applications in the webosphere, as measured by the number of bookmarks at del.icio.us for apps which are not publicly released yet.

Though what I really like is the fact that it's also a groovy little source for researching all the amazing new names for future stuff too - a nice, unintended byproduct for research trend junkies like me.

As of today, Scrybe is numero uno, fast forward and check out their demo video: Scrybe.

Have fun! Museum Of Modern BETAs.

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Meet Clocky!

Oh boy. Our pups Ringo & Dazy are gonna just love this!

Meet Clocky, the alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don't wake up.

Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time.

Nice! Meet Clocky!

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Strange & Fascinating

It's easy to get lost looking at all these cool and, yes, Strange & Fascinating Maps.

The above map by Johannes Vingboons (1639) is from the American Treasures of the Library of Congress.

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Happy Valentines Day!

Did this little collage for my Chrissy!

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Readius

This is kind of interesting, my buddy Raygun, from GearNut, sent me this this morning.

Answering the question: How to get a 5-inch display in a device the size of a mobile phone?

Check it out: Readius.

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Fountain of Fonts

The fine folks over at Fountain have some pretty sweet Pro Bono fonts available for both Macs and whatever those other computers are called.

The above font, PAVEMENT, was designed by Peter Bruhn.

As Mr. Bruhn describes it's origin, this font was "Made in the late hours after coming home from a Pavement concert."

Fill your font cup over at Fountain.

Wowee Zowee!

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Dynamic & Changeable

Well, we've all seen the ever changing Google logo on special days of the year.

The latest dynamic dynamo is the new Saks Fifth Avenue identity.

A 1973 Saks signature logo was revived — and refined — by the Pentagram design group, then sliced into 64 components that are arranged in different configurations on bags and boxes. "Fragmenting the logo gave it energy and bravura," said Michael Bierut, the Pentagram partner who led the Saks project. "And now we can create numerous permutations of the logo."

Dynamic identities fly in the face of the conventional wisdom that consistency is essential to an effective corporate identity. The more we see the same corporate symbol — or so the consistency camp argues — the more likely we'll be to recognize and remember it. Companies adhered to this throughout the 20th century; and the designers of some of the most successful identities, such as Jan Tschichold at Penguin Books in the late 1940s, and Paul Rand as a consultant to IBM from the 1950s to the early 1990s, were renowned for their rigor.

Tschichold specified how every element of design at Penguin should be executed — down to the spacing of the letters in its books — in the Penguin Composition Rules. Rand did the same at IBM in a series of documents with self-explanatory titles, such as IBM Logo: Use and Abuse. Their objective was to protect the purity of their carefully planned design systems from being botched by dodgy printers and overzealous local managers. Both designers occasionally broke their own rules, but resisted the right of others to do so. As Tschichold wrote: "It is the master who establishes the rules... and is permitted to break the rules, even his own."

Read it all about it: International Herald Tribune.

And here's the word directly from Pentagram.

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The Ara Chest

Winner of the 1st prize at the Elle Decoration competition. The simplicity of this chest and its wood melange gives the interior an extravagant yet minimalistis look.

I totally dig this!

More info at IQ Matics

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Thanks to the kids at Design Milk

Balloon Bling!

Lights for your balloons … Lights for your Party

Now you can light up your nightime parties with Balloon Brites. No assembly needed, just inflate with helium. Balloon Brites is perfect for any party decorations.

And they're totally affordable: Balloon Brites

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Thanks to: Brain Fuel

Merci! Danka! Grazi!

Behold - the most important part of anyones identity system or personal stationery.

The only thing better than recieving one is sending one.

The Thank You card. Not an email.

The above is a working sketch of the first in a series of six cards I'm getting ready to print to aknowledge everyone I can think of for helping me get to where I am today and to those for just simply believing in me.

There's no substitute for what's sadly becoming a rarity:
A heartfelt, simple, real deal handwritten thank you note of sincere appreciation, acknowledgement or just some good old fashioned, humble Gratitude.

Thanks to Robert Fulgham's "All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned..

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life.

Thanks for reading!

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Poor Bird!

I was sitting with my coffee this morning and looking out the window and a huge flock of these little birds, I'd guess a few hundred of them, loudly swooped down in the yard and then suddenly off and on their way.

A few seconds later, smack! This little thing hit one of our windows and faceplanted right on the bench.

What really made this kind of weird was the fact that just moments earlier we were listening to a piece on NPR about Bernard Herrmann's work as the sound designer on Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds - which we had just watched a few nights before.

According to eHow, it's estimated that more than 90 million birds are killed each year as a result of hitting windows.

Damn.

I waited a bit to see if our little guy was just stunned but I'm sorry to say that this one didn't make it.

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Pimp My Bus!

The Volkswagen bus: 1960s beach bums dug it, brah.

And no wonder. It was cheap, had plenty of room for surfboards, and was about as complicated as a lawn mower. That’s why, when Volkswagen of America’s Electronics Research Lab in Palo Alto wanted an unassuming vehicle to house some of its undercover tech, it settled on a roomy, 21-window Deluxe Microbus from 1964.

Dubbed Chameleon by the ERL team, the van — purchased on eBay for $20,000 — has been completely restored, converted to electric drive, and stocked with the lab’s souped-up automotive electronics.

But the best part?

It still looks boss on the beach.

Read the rest of Mike Spinelli's cool article over at WIRED.

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Thanks to: Wired Magazine

Cool Room Divider

Check out the custom room divider solutions over at: dVider.

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Teaching The Machine

So. Just exactly how did we get from handwritten text to Web 2.0?

Here's a super nice short attention span theatre version: 101 To 2.0

Thanks to: Reaction

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The envelope above is courtesy of Eunice and Ron Shanahan

Are You Experienced?

Experience is everywhere from cave paintings to broadband websites but what exactly is it?

Read psychologist Tom Guarriello’s primer on defining and designing experience. I know it might sound sort of boring and it's a 3 page article but it really gets great by the end of page one.

If you have anything to do with advertising, design or the web, you'll dig it, I swear.

And as Tom Guarriello put it (as a comment to the original article) "I like the way you describe the designer’s challenge: mix, shake, color, pre-vision, re-vision, en-vision, and let it go. The new emerging from the re-conceptualization of the existing."

Go read: Are You Experienced?

Thanks to: UX Magazine and Jeff Simpson for the inspirational Hendrix photo.

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Steve Wacksman

Check out the super tiki bongo illustrations of Steve Wacksman.

Thanks to the awesome folks over at: Drawn, an excellent cartoon and illustration blog.

And while we're on the subject of illustration, check out some of the rock stars of contemporary drawning at Picture Mechanics.

And then there's the awesome Ray Fenwick!

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Audio Wall Paper For A Nice Day

The HMK Mysterey Stream is the perfect stuff to get you into the groove before and during long pixle pushing sessions....

Make It Louder: HMK Mysterey Stream Number Five

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Nice Font: Las Perdidas

Las Perdidas is a super cool new gritty font by Rian Hughes inspired by a stenciled sign on a South American bus.

With seemingly mismatched characters, it rumbles out of the station, fueled by pure urban grit.

A Veer Exclusive: Las Perdidas.

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Vote For Jackie Earle Haley!

Hey all you JEH fans!

Vanity Fair has an Oscar poll that takes less than 30 seconds.

Vote for Jackie Here! Vanity Fare.

Thanks!

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Jackie Earle Haley: It's On!

As Jackie Earle Haley put's it in tomorrow nights Nightline interview answering the question: "What's is like having Oscar and your name mentioned in the same sentence?"

"It's like, super cool, throw in some steriods and Bloof!"

Mr. Haley will be on both The View tomorrow morning and Nightline the same evening, so tune in y'all!

Vote for Jackie Here! Vanity Fare.

UPDATE: If you go to your iTunes podcasts you can watch the Jackie Earle Haley Nightline segment for free! Thanks Steve!

Go Jackie!

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Mmmm. Grilled Cheese...

This and a bowl of Campbell's tomato soup (made with milk not water) out by the Tiki Room is my favorite lunch to accompany this awesome weather we're getting in San Antonio today!

Dig these tasty recipies from Laura Werlin’s Great Grilled Cheese: 50 Innovative Recipes for Stovetop, Grill, and Sandwich Maker.

Grilled Cheese

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For Sale

Found this over at We Make Money Not Art

Perfect.

Genius.

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