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March 2010

• Mon 15^th

  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 21^st

  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 13^th

  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 10^th

  World’s Most Influential Designers

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

• Sun 7^th

  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 6^th

  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 29^th

  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 8^th

  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 6^th

  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 5^th

  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 5^th

  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 5^th

  Build it With Me

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

• Sat 5^th

  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 5^th

  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.

• Sat 5^th

  Flock Draw

  The collaborative sketch-and-save space is becoming a bit crowded, but I do like the relative simplicity of FlockDraw. What are your favorites?

November 2009

• Thu 12^th

  Friedisms

  A parody of stuff Jason Fried might say. Example: “Timecards are the enemy. The only thing timecards will prove is that your employees are liars.”

• Thu 12^th

  Kind of Bloop

  Just like it says: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. It would rekindle my interest in video games if the soundtracks were like this.

• Tue 3^rd

  31Three Relaunch

  One of my top favorite designers (@jessebc) has relaunched his portfolio site with new colors and typography. The overall tone suits him and his work perfectly.