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links for 2008-11-20

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 20, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New York City Subway: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA
  If you like typography and design, you'll enjoy this article. You huge geek, you.
  (tags: typography design awesome)
• Andy Borowitz: Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy
  But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.
  (tags: funny politics Obama)

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links for 2008-11-19

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 19, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• Bush delivers "The Shocker"
  Um. WTF? Just… Nevermind.
  (tags: photos)
• 10 sure-fire signs you're about to be made redundant (Guru)
  Like my stomach wasn't already in knots.
  (tags: employment)

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links for 2008-11-17

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 17, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You
  (tags: funny illustration awesome pets humor)
• Newspaper Website Design: Trends And Examples | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
  (tags: webdesign inspiration designIdeas)
• Gaslighting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  "Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse. It involves an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to the subject, having the gradual effect of making the victim anxious, confused, and less able to trust his or her own memory and perception." I have a co-worker who regularly does this as a power play. Fucking annoying.
  (tags: psychology abuse control)
• GoodGuide | Home
  Reviews of the safety and green factors of all of your household products. This is a great reference tool.
  (tags: reference green shopping consumer)
• Write or Die : Dr Wicked's Writing Lab
  (tags: writing productivity funny tools)
• 20 Useful Visualization Libraries : A Beautiful WWW
  (tags: visualization reference design tools)

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links for 2008-11-16

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 16, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Gets a Remake
  Why? There's no reason. Just watch the original.
  (tags: movies)
• Truly scrumptious – The man who turned his Land Rover into Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Mail Online
  Curse you for doing it first. But hey, where are the instructions?
  (tags: artCars)

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links for 2008-11-15

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 15, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• Wonkette : A Nice Chart Showing How Poor You Are
  Yeah. No kiddin'.
  (tags: graphs charts visualization economy)

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links for 2008-11-13

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 13, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• Indy Food Coop
  This is a really interesting idea that we're considering joining. You can become a founding member and get discounts on local foods.
  (tags: food local nutrition)
• Locally Grown Gardens
  A local produce market on 54th Street in Indianapolis. I stopped by on the way home and got free-range eggs, Honey crisp apples, broccoli, pumpkin bread, red potatoes and lots of great pictures of their produce. YUM.
  (tags: local food nutrition)
• Future of Web Design – Newyork 2008
  (tags: designCool designIdeas webdesign)
• Sprint: Plug into Now.
  Web dashboard design.
  (tags: webdesign inspiration dashboard visualization designIdeas)
• TRANSFORMERS présentation | Guillaume Reymond | video performance
  Photos of vehicles gathered together to form the shape of transformers. Excellent.
  (tags: photography art fun)
• Highlights: Newsweek's Special Election Project | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
  Inside the presidential campaigns.
  (tags: election2008 politics)

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links for 2008-11-12

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 12, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• There Are No Rules – Visit WD Headquarters and Get a Manuscript Critique
  (tags: writing)

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links for 2008-11-10

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 10, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• 9 Free Tools to Analyze and Improve Your Website | Smiley Cat Web Design
  (tags: webdesign webdev tools free)
• Spell with flickr
  (tags: api flickr letters tool)

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links for 2008-11-08

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 8, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• Art Cars Calendar
  (tags: artCars)
• Function Web Design & Development [ Blog ] » 50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign: My Top Picks
  (tags: webdesign inspiration)
• You Can Forget My Taxes – The Daily Beast
  Melissa Etheridge points out — hey, if we aren't represented by government, why are we paying taxes? Good point.
  (tags: homophobia lgbt equality marriage rights)
• Shopify — Hosted e-commerce with style, in less than 2 minutes
  (tags: shoppingcart e-commerce webdesign tools)
• 541 Gifts and Accessories – Welcome
  Built using Shopify.com
  (tags: Indiana toys store)
• Magento – Home – Open Source eCommerce Evolved
  (tags: webdesign e-commerce shoppingcart framework)
• Amazon Web Services
  (tags: webdesign webdev development)
• reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
  (tags: webdesign webdev antispam captcha)
• jQuery UI – Home
  (tags: webdesign tools web2.0 GUI)
• Pomegranate | NS08
  That's a funny phone.
  (tags: funny viralmarketing pomegranate)

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links for 2008-11-07

• Post author:HFM
• Post published:November 7, 2008
• Post category:Recently Read

• Motel Hell – a set on Flickr
  (tags: signs)
• death does come, of this we are sure
  (tags: architecture death memorial designCool inspiration designIdeas)
• Facebook | Karl Baden's Photos – Discreet Deaths Heads: a Collection
  Collection of Death's Heads (skulls) hidden in mystery novel book covers.
  (tags: bookcovers)
• The Best Inventions of the Year – TIME's Best Inventions of 2008 – TIME
  (tags: bestof2008)
• Amazon.com: Best of 2008: Books: Books
  (tags: bestof2008)
• Change.gov
  Wow. Obama's got the Social Networking and good communication thing down. Awesome site, awesome transparency of government. Rock on.
  (tags: Obama government presidency transition)
• ROBOCUB: Campaign to revoke the tax-exempt status of hateful meddling churches
  The Mormon church violated it's tax-exempt status by funding Prop8 in California. You can protest to the IRS.
  (tags: lgbt equality rights)
• Forvo: the pronunciation guide.
  All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers.
  (tags: language reference tools words)
• @font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work — Jon Tan 陳
  (tags: webdesign fonts typography)
• Kids Halloween Candy Code
  Like the Hobo Code for good houses, a candy symbology for who serves up the best goodies. I don't believe kids actually do this, but it's funny as hell.
  (tags: funny symbols halloween code)
• The next President of the United States – The Big Picture – Boston.com
  Some really amazing photos of our new President.
  (tags: election2008 photography history images)

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