While this "pink turd" (to borrow and slightly tweak
Gruber's lovely turn of phrase) is truly, truly hideous, it actually is pretty much on par with the kind of clueless-about-half-the-species sort of whiz kids who named the iPad.

Just my two thoughts on an item at
digitaldaily.com
This is brilliant:
It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled…
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Very busy with classes, so here's one of my programming projects to tide you over.
I call it pinbOut; it's a small video game somewhere between pinball and breakout (aka brickbreaker, but more properly arkanoid).
http://positdesign.com/media/pinbout/
Player one (white) is controlled with the z and x keys; player two (black) is o and p. Depending on your screen resolution, you may need to scroll down quickly. Requires up-to-date Java in your browser…
In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of
last year's ALD post. But I'm already planning something all-out for next year. So this one's a quickie.
Much of tech right now is dominated by social media. And one of the big rumors floating around is that because women are…
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I wish Boston was hosting a funeral today. Via
ie6funeral.com
A "playful paint program" that you can play with, at
http://positdesign.com/media/paintplay/
I utterly love Werner Herzog. There's really just no two ways around it.
I'm also pretty certain that this is the first book I ever read the whole text of out loud to my mother, which she claims happened when I was 2.
via
coilhouse magazine
This project was interrupted by the tragic death of Lee Alexander McQueen. He's one of the most important fashion figures in my lifetime. He was BFF to my most perfect muse & inspiration, Isabella Blow. She discovered* him at fashion college, bought his entire senior thesis. Her eye and aesthetic brought many of the great designers of the last few decades to prominence; she described herself as the fashion industry's…
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It's Fashion Week! So, inspired by galadarling, I wanted to highlight some of my own fictional style icons. Number 3: Jane Lane.
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It's Fashion Week! So, inspired by galadarling.com, I wanted to highlight some of my own fictional style icons. Number one: Rory Gilmore.
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One of my hugest webdesign/usability pet peeves is galleries or slideshows. I just don't want to have to hit the NEXT arrow 14 times to learn ten pieces of information, or to see twelve pretty pictures. If your click-per rate and my patience have a showdown, I'm closing the tab.
Luckily, it's not always strictly necessary:

via
nymag.com
I was thinking about my little sister, and was inspired to whip this up for her. Just a quick photoshop doodle:
This is your chance to see "Dead, Wrapped in Plastic"—my sculpture of dead Laura Palmer—live and in-person!
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My twelve year old boy's sense of humor failed me utterly on Sunday night…
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created by Ub Iwerks; directed by Walt Disney
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Baking the Star Wars Cake
This labor of love is also a result of my love for
smittenkitchen.com. The cake is Deb's
Best Birthday Cake. It is filled with her
Mango Curd and frosted with her
Swiss Buttercream, the instructions for which include the directive, "Patience, young Jedis." As per her brilliant
layer cake tips, I made the mango curd and…
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Why is your iPhone app free? It shouldn't be.
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