Well, we already covered the Darwin Awards for 2008, but we’ve got lots more stupid stuff to talk about!
Take for example the case of Marie Lupe Cooley. She’s reading the newspaper one day and notices a job position that looks suspiciously like hers and her boss’ name and number right there! Obviously the only thing [...]

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Wow. Long title today.
This is crazy. Crazy awesome! Olafur Eliasson, a Danish-Icelandic (!!) artist is getting ready to install his new art project in New York, in the East River to be specific. He’s going to build 60-70 feet high waterfalls there… waterfalls. Hopefully, they won’t be too close to land cause, y’know… you [...]

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Monday? Art? Snow??
Well we warned you it was coming but Improv Everywhere’s No Pants Day 2008 has come and gone. Gothamist has the 411 and sgoralnick has the photos. Anyone here happen to stumble upon it?
A real man, though, wouldn’t have a no pants subway ride… they’d do a no pants Parkour run! Such a [...]

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Macworld 2008 is just around the corner and while I already thought it was going to be a big one. But when they quietly launched those completely whupass new MacPro’s and Xserves it really got the brain cells a tremblin’ - what could they have that was so unbelievable that new 8-core machines weren’t even [...]

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The Telegraph has published the secrets - discovered by scientists (of course! you see why I love scientists now?) - of rock, paper scissors. Personally, my secret was always the last tip they give - throw the move that would have beaten your opponent’s previous move and it’s stood me in good stead over these [...]

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I ran across this super awesome site, the Asian Traditional Archery Research Network. It could use a little designerly love, sure, but it’s pretty badass anyway. Where else will you learn about the Multiple-shot “Zhuge” Crossbow? Who even knew that crossbows got to have “nicknames”? And you’ll learn the difference between arrow whistles and whistling [...]

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Still trying to catch up, so some more quick links…
Remember trying to get into college? That wasn’t that fun and your high school councilor was, most likely, less than useless to your efforts. Fortunately, for the low cost of $40,000 you can hire a real consultant to tell you how to get in! She won’t [...]

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Ok, this is the first Pixar flick that I am actually interested to see… Wall-E. The trailer is up at Yahoo, go watch it. Then you gotta check out the film site - Buy n Large, which looks like some crazy corporate site of the future. It’s pretty great, from the privacy notice:

Buy n Large [...]

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It must be typography week! Or at least typography monday and tuesday - following up my li’l review of Helvetica came across these links. The first is this guy that did a logo study on the progression of the Batman logo over time (via sfsignal). It changed a lot over time, but you can definitely [...]

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So there’s the new show being produced by Cartoon Network - Transformers: Animated. Kind of a dumb name and when I say “kind of” I mean, really dumb. I guess someone in Atlanta thought it was clever. There’s the trailer for it that looks ok, I appreciate that they are sticking with the original song [...]

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