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Robots & Calligraphy. So happy together.

by Jenny

Robots & Calligraphy. So happy together.

Posted on February 18th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Top 10 MMOs of 2008

by Hillel

Top 10 MMOs of 2008. A couple of surprises.

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Startups Being Cheap

by Hillel

“Recently the cost-cutting drive reached a new extreme. ‘We drink a lot of coffee,’ says Mr Morin, describing late-night, caffeine-fuelled coding sessions. ‘I used to get the good whole bean stuff from a little cafe and grind it myself. Now we get the big bucket of Folgers.’” [use this link if they ask you to register]

Posted on January 21st, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

The Hofmeister Kink

by Hillel

“This seemingly inconsequential detail has developed into a key theme of automotive design.”

Posted on January 16th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Ambigram

by Hillel

I like that modern ambigrams are not just the domain of Dan Brown novels.

Posted on January 12th, 2009 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

DRM Ineffective

by Hillel

“The game makers noted that it had almost no difference compared to another game released with DRM, showing that adding the DRM did absolutely nothing to prevent piracy.”

Posted on November 21st, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Quantum of Solace Type

by Hillel

“The hand crafted typography for the location cards in Quantum of Solace by Tomato.”

Posted on November 20th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

by Walter

What the JFM datacenter would probably be like, if we had one.

Posted on November 15th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Special edition Pepsi packaging

by Jenny

Special edition packaging 110 years of Pepsi.

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Women of Watchmen

by Hillel

The women of Watchmen. The transitions between the original comic and scenes from the film are awesome.

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

All Cloud Startup Infrastructure

by Hillel

“And yet, despite the fact that we have the resources to build out our own footprint, we are choosing to go the other way, and move 100% into the cloud. This decision came after a lot of modeling and some very hard thinking.”

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Alternative Band Business Models

by Hillel

“Rather than going out and signing a record label deal, where the record label basically gets near total control over the band and its works, the band has incorporated itself into a company and raised $100,000 from The Normative Music Company as an investment.”

Posted on November 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Monsters Inc. Ride at Tokyo Disneyland

by Hillel

“Monsters Inc Hide and Seek is the next major Disney attraction, and it will open officially April 15, 2009 at Tokyo Disneyland Tomorrowland. A real E-Ticket with new WDI technological wonders, and more than 75 Audio-Animatronics inside. In fact, since Pirates of Caribbean at DLP or Sinbad Voyages at TDL, no other attraction had been built with so many Audio-Animatronics… No need to say that Disney and more is waiting for its opening…”

Posted on October 30th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

M.U.L.E.

by Hillel

ZOMG, just when I thought I’d seen everything the internet currently had to offer, this has been around for three years (or so it appears). M.U.L.E. is one of my favorite games ever. I’m almost afraid to play it again for fear of ruining my golden memories. I once asked the guy running the XBox games group at Microsoft to remake this. He agreed it was a good idea, but never acted on my suggestion. He was soon out of a job.

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Garamond Powerline

by Hillel

Garamond Powerline [thx as always kottke]

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Star Wars Aesthetic

by Hillel

Personally, I’ve always thought that the difference between the Star Wars and Star Trek aesthetic was simply the amount of money spent on both sets that look real, and extras to populate them. Star Wars locales looked real and felt like they were filled with realistic numbers of people. It was all about scale. This was in stark contrast to Star Trek where planets looked like some weird pseudo Mount Olympus where 400 people inhabit the entire place.

Posted on October 27th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Stamps by Type Designers

by Hillel

Stamps by type designers. [thx kottke]

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Star Wars MMO

by Hillel

“We’re going to allow you to experience the great moments of Star Wars… What are the cool things that you’ve seen in the movies? If you can do it in the movies, we’re trying to do that in the game.”

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  1 Comment »

Blog Before-and-Afters

by Hillel

A visual history of 11 successful blogs. [thx debdu]

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Investment In Bullshit Ads Plummets

by Hillel

“The first thing to get cut in everyone’s ad budget was “experimental” ad buys, random things like branded pop-up games and ads in Virtual Worlds and other, mostly online things that probably never worked in the first place.”

Posted on October 15th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Helvetica Monopoly

by Hillel

If they ever actually make this, you’ll know what to get Jenny for her birthday.

Posted on October 6th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

“We don’t have any growth goals.”

by Hillel

“I can ride my bike to work. I live one to two miles from either brewery. I fill my gas tank once a week. I think you can get caught up way too much in growth. We don’t have any growth goals.” [thx svn]

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Wii2?

by Hillel

“Unlike previous console transitions from Nintendo, the new system will be presented as a true successor to the Wii, and is being dubbed by those that have seen the presentation as ‘Wii HD.’”

Posted on October 1st, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Robin’s Creek

by Hillel

“Holy prequel, Boy Wonder, the CW is prepping a series based on Batman sidekick Robin’s pre-Caped Crusader days.”

Posted on October 1st, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

The Coming Winter

by Hillel

“If, on the other hand, you are just starting a company, or have angels backing you, or are backed by first time venture firms that are not funded by traditional sources, then I think you’ve got a bigger problem on your hands. It’s not an impossible problem to solve, but you have to start thinking about how you are going to get where you want to go without venture funding.”

Posted on September 30th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

Fiat 500

by Hillel

In some ways I think it’s even cuter than a Mini-Cooper (especially on the inside).

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

John Maeda’s RISD Inauguration

by Jenny

You can be both a designer and an artist, a humanist and a technologist, a student and a teacher, a hand craftsman and a Photoshop guru, a global and local thinker…

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

My Dream Home

by Hillel

I know I should be embarrassed to admit this, but this is my dream home. it comes with its own frigging batcave.

Posted on September 15th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

What’s Tony Stark been up to?

by Hillel

A year in the life of Tony Stark.

Posted on September 13th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »

New Economy?

by Hillel

“You Don’t Need To Make Money From Every Person Who Enjoys Your Product”

Posted on September 9th, 2008 in Interesting  —  No Comments »