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Don’t lose faith in your inner fire.

via Twitter / Tim O’Reilly: There’s a lesson in the He ….

via SIMILO teaser on Vimeo.

Where did the past 12 days go?

I’m not quite sure, but I am glad that Ms. Moss was here to comfort you.

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The last week I spent time with my possie, the Automattic crew. It was awesome getting to live, work, and play with them for a while. It kind of felt like the Real World, geek edition. I was hoping we’d have had some confessions of invalid code or unicode debauchery, to go along with the code filled week, but no luck.

My favorite part of the trip: getting schooled by Nikolay on UTF-16.

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Without further awkwardness, a polaroid of Zooey Deschanel:

And just for kicks, John Lennon.

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BTW, someone remind me to cleanup the design around here… ya know, when it gets bad enough.

via natalie portman’s shaved head – sophisticated side ponytail on Vimeo.

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Sorry Frangry, but there’s enough Moss for everyone.

via ISO50 – The Visual Work of Scott Hansen

modelcouture: July 2008 Covers L’Officiel India: Hila

Since FFFFound seems to be a closed community and my chances of ever joining are slim to none, I’m going to post my own FFFFound images here.

modelcouture: Magdalena Frackowiak“Sortilège” Numero #

“The red icon on your iPhone or iPod touch always reminds you (and others when you show it to them) that you were rich enough to afford this. It’s a work of art with no hidden function at all.”

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No.57 | N 36°13’48.5“ W 116°47’09.2“, Bad Water, Death Valley, California, USA, 2006

Golden Ray photos of amazing mass migration – Telegraph [via Naz Hamid]

moxy, n. When someone has guts or balls, they have moxy.

2008 Design Trends from WebDesignerWall [via Matt]

• What does your garbage can of failed motivations look like?
• I hope Ze Frank writes a book some day.
• John Dyer growing every type of beard.

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• Design Is In The Details

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  Advanced Beauty from mate on Vimeo.

  I found this somewhere and can not remember where. I’m sorry.

• Timoni is a super talented designer. Watch out.
• I can not wait till Spore comes out, until then, checkout the Creature Creator!
• The Ampersand Masters Thesis
• The live Firefox 3 download counter.

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I wrote this a month or so ago, and never published it.

We live in amazing times. Just amazing.

The internet has blessed us all with the power to communicate with each other. It took a while, but we finally realized that the internet doesn’t have to be all about cats and animated gifs. Even though, those are still two very popular topics.

Not just geeks are on the net anymore, either. I just learned, Kanye West has a blog… and it’s probably actually HIM blogging on it! Not to mention he has a Vimeo account (”suck on that Flickr,” says Vimeo founder j/k)! BTW, Kottke, who I rubbed the wrong way many years back, alerted me to all this, on his unimaginably popular blog.

After watching this video, how can you not love the internet?

We’ve finally learned that there is more to life than “me” and that the “we” is what makes the world go round.

The internet does have a heart. It enables us to do some really amazing things.

Recently, along with Coudal Partners, 37Signals, Metafilter, Happy Cog, Iconfactory, Core77, Daring Fireball, Emma, Business Brickyard, and skinnyCorp, I got to help kids benefit from your filthy gambling habit. My design studio eight6 donated $1000 to buy some books for kids, by matching your donations.

I’ve always been unnaturally excited to help others. Being able to do that through my work, is gratifying. eight6 is heavily focused on helping the world and it will always be a core part of who I am and what my company represents. It sounds “deep,” and kind of corny. But it’s pretty simple. We build and design things (usually websites), using design to clarify communication and in return, help make good things happen.

In the next few months I’m going to be launching a program to help loving geeks help the world become a better place, just by doing what they do. Sounds interesting? I think it is. It will be an experiment, but an interesting and, hopefully, a fruitful one.

Dean Allen, as he has always been, is my hero:

…and third, that by any means necessary, web-strategy, social-media, online-marketing webcocks – unaware as they are of how toxic their presence is in the arenas they cannot shut up about – must and shall be filtered out of view.

– Dean Allen

I almost fell off my chair, again, after reading that.

It holds, it embraces. It’s “deep.”

Stephen Henault is a cool dude and a great blogger that I randomly stumbled upon. Here’s what he recently wrote:

“The cup” is deep. Seriously. Could the argument not be made that “the cup” is the defining invention that has lead us to all the great stuff we have now?

It’s the concept of the cup I speak of. Put stuff inside – and save it for later – to be pulled out on demand. Sounds kind of like my iPhone, my Macbook, my DVR, Batteries, etc. etc.

I’m probably oversimplifying, but in drinking this cup of coffee I have a new found respect for the dude/or gal who came up with the concept of “the cup”.

Deep! Eh?

I’ve been following Erik Natzke’s blog Jot for a while now. He’s an extremely talented artist. Check out this post about the NIN Ghosts community videos:

Trent Reznor is inviting people to contribute visuals to audio from his latest release, Ghosts. These are a few contributions I came up with today using some reclaimed footage.

Only really unfortunate thing is that it the videos need to be published to You Tube.
Here and Here are links to versions of them in much better quality.