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Atari Computer Concepts
Fuck You
SLOWITUP →
Creating amazing ambient music by slowing down contemporary pop songs.
Quizno’s “More Meat”
Slavoj Žižek and the horrible paradox of charitable consumption. He’s talking about you, Tom’s Shoes.
A Collection a Day, 2010 →
“This is a blog documenting a project that will span exactly one year, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. On each of those 365 days, I will photograph or draw (and occasionally paint) one collection. Most of the collections are real and exist in my home or studio; those I will photograph. Some are imagined; those I will draw or (occasionally) paint….”
MSNBC Redesign →
Mike Davidson:
This weekend, msnbc.com launched a sweeping redesign of the most important part of their site: the story page. The result is something unlike anything any other major news site is offering and is a bold step in a direction no competitor has gone down (yet): the elimination of pageviews as a primary metric.
-Via DaringFireball
Smart architecture: the filpper bridge
An awesome optical illusion
Google drops Windows as Internal OS →
Like any good workplace Google allows you to work in your preferred OS, as long as it’s not Windows. Apparently a Windows machine was to blame for their security breach in China, so they’re deciding to play it safe by only using operating systems that actually work. As an employee you can still use Windows on your personal laptop, but now you’ll need CIO approval. Brutal. Take that Micro$uck.
