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Hey, good idea Google

em — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:08:10 +0000

As someone who always freaks out about how many emails are in my inbox because I like being on top of my shit, I want to try this. I’ll letcha know how it goes, but so far so good. Oh, organization!

Most high-brow Lady Gaga spoof

em — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:33:20 +0000

Best ever. Confession: I can’t stand Nina Totenberg sometimes. via The Daily What

I am so excited that I can use Hootsuite on my Droid now

em — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:47:19 +0000

I’m a huge Hootsuite fan, I use it all day, every day. Now I can use it on my phone too. I thought this commercial was really adorable in addition. Don’t cry Androidbot!

Cat business trip!

em — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:11:25 +0000

Nora: THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER
EMILY WATCH THAT RIGHT NOW
Nora: YOU WILL NEVER BE HAPPIER

credit for this beautiful commercial goes to Margaret, who is the best at the internet.

Found: best 2010 calendar (and it’s free!)

otas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:47:09 +0000

Blue Art Studio, the wonderful place that makes alphabet of design classics poster I have and the chair eye exam poster I want made my day by posting this AMAZING FREE 2010 CALENDAR that’s like my dreams exploded onto 12 pieces of paper. Bright colors, modern chairs and free. Beeeeeest
download/view it here

Blog headquarters

em — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:03:51 +0000

Ben Huh owns Fail blog and ICanHasCheezburger. He’s my idol. Here he is in his office. More here, from Time’s appropriately titled article I Can Has Media Empire?

Compy chair

otas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:23:50 +0000

this looks really really usefully

need a male copywriter?

becko — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:34:05 +0000

i shamelessly stole this from adage but it’s kinda awesome.

maybe i should take this copywriter’s idea and make a femalemuseumprofessional.com site when i start looking for jobs after grad school and make a flashy website featuring myself lying on a bearskin rug. i’m curious to see whether people actually respond to this…

May Day!

becko — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:10:25 +0000

From Wikipiedia…

May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to Haymarket incident or any of several public holidays.^[1] In many countries, May Day is synonymous with International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, which celebrates the social and economic achievements of the labour movement. As a day of celebration the holiday has ancient origins, and it can relate to many customs that have survived into modern times.

If you want to support worker’s rights and have some fun, there is a march from Chinatown to Union Square that starts at 2:00pm today- meet at corner of Grand & Chrystie

Grain Edit’s interview with Frank Chimero

otas — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:57:49 +0000

I’m a big fan of Frank Chimero. His state illustrations are fantastic (when’s New York, Frank? Or Vermont, or Indiana??), and I used to have this inspirational poster as my desktop at work for a while (the “Aw, Damnit” part got to me, eventually). Anyway, Grain Edit interviewed Frank recently, and it’s really fascinating. I’m not even a graphic designer or much of an artist (though I’m known to doodle geometric shapes on notebooks at work).

The whole interview is a great read, but my favorite part is when Frank describes how he comes up with the ideas for the states. Here’s an excerpt:

Here, I’m trying out a few ideas. Something long and curling? An alligator? A fish? A manatee? Nah. That manatee doesn’t look like one. It’s too skinny. Not cowish enough. Doesn’t work well with the shape. The alligator is nice, but too predictable? His legs don’t integrate in very nicely into the shape. A train? Oh. Wow. That’s nice. Maybe we can use the smoke to trail off to the left to fill that difficult space. Ok. Bingo!

So cool. Anyway, Frank also mentions this great video he did for Good Magazine. I hadn’t seen it before and I suggest you watch it both for his great drawings and for the info.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMXjmHXroEY&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]