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Ever fancied a corporate ID with a Mona Lisa-inspired color palette? A Botticelli-colored web site? Well then, knock yourself out! [Via 1+1=3]
Raining cats and dogs. No, no, raining horses and rhinos. And crazy giraffes. And whales.
“Here’s a suggestion to every Internet executive: take a Post-It note, write “EBay wasted $3 billion on Skype” and stick it to your monitor.” Saul Hansell [Via D.F.]
Thank you for visiting, you funky feeders and curious metropotams. Cheers! [Links in Romanian.]
The Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Lord of—the credits roll, insert yawning emoticon—the Rings. [Via H&FJ.]
So neglected, the poor thing. Love it and it’ll bloom like a flower. Lowercase ‘g’, that is.
FeedBurner seems to be having a rough day. The counter doesn’t load and their site is a mess. Adding more flare, you say?
Update: it works now, thank you.
“When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.” Jennifer Pariser, head of litigation for Sony BMG. Nice. I love Sony more already.
The beginning ends here: 5 years of Brandient. [link in Romanian]
Should Flickr present its users with a dark gray layout, 80% of them would switch in a blink of an eye.
Just coined that. Advintaging is modern advertising by hijacking vintage adverts. [Via NDG.]
This happened before marketing movies as “based on true events” became a cool trend.
“Wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time” in The Arrival illustrated book.
What a charming species we are in October! Whipping scars, guys “clearing out” other guys, “The last Jew in Vinnitsa” and a woman crying for uncertain reasons. [Thanks, Roxana.]
“I’d shut down [Apple] and give the money back to the shareholders.” Michael Dell, ten years ago. Clever tip. [Via DF.]
Croco café, the home of bohemians from all walks of life, closes down in Cluj after 47 years. Flashmob cooking for one o’clock today. [Thanks, Paul.]
Are some people having way too much time on their hands or what? Watch the countdown. [Via FS.]
“There are people whom I consider to have essentially atrocious music libraries, and many of them are unquestionably smarter, more successful and more cultured than me. And then there are those whose eclectic, impeccably curated music libraries I might covet; many of those people are bores or bastards.” Khoi Vinh.
Sometimes “things” get funny by blindly using quotations marks. [Via DF.]
“You ever worked in a creative department, son?” No? Then “you can’t handle a bigger logo!” [Via DO.]
Look and learn how to react when you win the Nobel, alright? Oh, Christ. [Thanks, Alu.]
Gone With the Wine, a short by Corneliu Porumboiu. [Thanks, Alice in Wonderland.]
BusinessWeek repositions as a conversation, not a lecture. Rebranding includes redesigned magazine layout and new logo.
“What is ‘sustainable architecture’? The expression doesn’t really mean much. I prefer ‘responsible architecture’.” Françoise-Hélène Jourda in Le Monde. Applies just the same for design: ‘responsible design’ instead of ‘sustainable design’. I like that. [Via CoS.]
I realize that magazines — especially technical magazines — inconspicuously refrained from picturing the future. The childhood ended. The future is no longer what it used to be.
List of 300+ new features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
I’m guilty on 3 out of 25 accounts: #6 (posting more than once a day) but only in the sidebar, #17 (unfeedable comments) but I’ll do something about that, #20 (serif fonts) but I consider it a virtue. What’s your charge?
A guided tour of Mac OS X Leopard. Hop on the bus.
Tyler Brûlé’s upmarket monthly Monocle is available in Bucharest via Inmedio outlets. I suggest that you grab your copy on your way to Carrefour.
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.” Paul Rand. Watch the tribute video. [Via DF.]
Two-out-of-three genre’s latest iteration I’ve seen: “Work, sleep or play, pick two.” So true.
Two new episodes: three, four [links in Romanian], following the previous two: one, two, regarding Romania’s draft ID commissioned to Imagina SRL (imaginastudio.ro) and not developed in-house as the Agency for Governmental Strategies representatives previously reported to a Brandient inquiry.
Embarrassing.
