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June 2010

  • Thu 10th

    LiveView for iPhone & iPad

    LiveView is a specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications.

May 2010

  • Thu 13th

    My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress

    The model for setting up a quirky blog then waiting for the coffee-table book deals to roll in is being stretched a bit thin, but good luck to this guy.

  • Sun 2nd

    Designing with the Elements of Play

    This post by Jared Spool is another chapter in the strongest recurring theme of 2006-2010: gameplay in everyday activities. See also, this talk by Jesse Schell.

March 2010

  • Mon 22nd

    Repent Amarillo

    Design-wise, RepentAmarillo.com is a curious mix of military- and spiritual-warfare with video game aesthetic. Also, animated snow. Or nuclear fallout?

  • Mon 15th

    Chat Roulette Piano Improv

    The first thing I thought of when I discovered ChatRoulette was “hey, stop doing that that!” The second thing I thought of was its great potential for improvised performance.

February 2010

  • Sun 21st

    Animal Collective

    A photo my wife and I took and blogged about respectively reached its peak of internet fame before completing its life-cycle and appearing on a Tumblr making fun of bad tattoos.

  • Sat 13th

    TrustoCorp

    No one knows if TrustoCorp is more than one person, but s/he/it makes street art in the form of signage which I recently spotted on Houston Street in NYC.

  • Wed 10th

    World’s Most Influential Designers

    Business Week profiles “27 luminaries who represent a diverse cross-section of design disciplines”.

  • Sun 7th

    InstantWatcher

    If you need suggestions for Netflix movies and are set up to stream, InstantWatcher aggregates from NY Times and Rotten Tomatoes, and breaks them down by genre.

  • Sat 6th

    ChatRoulette

    After an afternoon spent on ChatRoulette, Sam Anderson of NYMag, felt “socially trampled, excluded and e-viscerated”. This is a social web I’m not ready for.

December 2009

  • Tue 29th

    Complication

    How do you explain a truly disruptive band like The Monks? Someone played them for me back in college and I refused to believe they’d existed in 1965.

  • Tue 8th

    Best Songs of 2009

    This has been my busiest year ever on a personal level, so I’m glad to see Said The Gramophone has compiled all the good music from 2009 I’ve missed out on.

  • Sun 6th

    Choosing a typeface timelapse

    Brian Hoff records his process of choosing the right typeface for a project. Would love to see a few tooltip overlays explaining the choices he made.

  • Sat 5th

    Radical Faith

    Shane Claiborne has been making news this year and I’ve begun his book, The Irresistable Revolution. See also his recent Esquire editorial.

  • Sat 5th

    BoingBoing without Steampunk

    Waldo has provided what so many have wished for: the ability to browse BoingBoing without tedious references to the steampunk genre.

  • Sat 5th

    Build it With Me

    This is kind of like a matchmaking service for designers and developers who want to collaborate on building apps.

  • Sat 5th

    Little Stabs of Happiness

    This week I lost an inspirational family member, the second in two years. This poem by my old poetry professor always makes me feel better about feeling bad.

  • Sat 5th

    Google Public DNS

    Google has launched a public DNS service aimed at improving speed, security and validity. Go change your settings and give it a whirl.