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December 1, 2007

On Romanian brands

Watch my partner Aneta Bogdan at Special Edition about Romanian Brands on Money Channel TV, along with Radu Graţian Gheţea, Dragos Dinu, Constantin Stroe and Catalin Dima. At 16:00, today.

Scorsese's

The way Sir Hitchcock would’ve done it: The Key to Reserva. Via DF.

December 3, 2007

Making

The Making of FF Meta Serif.

Encyclopedia Erratica

Wikipedia is a meritorious effort, but when it comes to design or design history its model fails.

December 4, 2007

Malicenence

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” Felix Ingram Via DF.

December 5, 2007

Bubblism

Today’s bubble. Via Orlando.

Taxi cabs

Are any other places in this whole wide world where lazy-assed taxi drivers refuse rides “because they’re not interested to go in that direction”?

December 6, 2007

Edit

Now you can edit your pics on Flickr.

With territory

“High trees catch a lot of wind.” Via DVDR.

December 7, 2007

Mazing

This is on ID Magazine’s list of Most Ingenious Products of 2007. Maybe it was a bad year. Via DO.

December 8, 2007

VHS

I think this one will crack you up. Via Kottke.

December 9, 2007

Fatmerica

Erwin Wurm’s work: fat Porsche, fat houses, fat David. Via OffCenter.

December 10, 2007

DefaceBook

“The most interesting thing about Facebook right now is who will replace it.” RIP Facebook?, The social graft. Via Longboard.

Smog

Mr. Gontz’ run down on Bucharest pollution: RespiRo video.

December 11, 2007

Game pros

The HR people from GameGoods are spreading the word that Romanian programmers are badly needed there. If you need a job go check ‘em out.

Diacritical

Turkish 'ş' (s with cedilla) vs. Romanian 'ș' (s with comma below).

Using diacritics shows respect for the language but it usually turns into a maddening ordeal. Diacritice.com is the only foreseeable easy way out: it painlessly adds diacritics to any given text, even though it prefers incorrect (Microsoft style) Turkish ‘ş’ and ‘ţ’ (s and t with cedilla) over correct Romanian ‘ș’ and ‘ț’ (s and t with comma below).

Vasile

How does Massimiliano Vasile name sound to you? Well, here is what he does: asteroids stuff.

December 12, 2007

Musikill

“The greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate”. Read about this and other bizarre findings from dead-serious scientific papers.

Beginning

Octavian Pantis of TMI and Qualians starts blogging, brings “CEO of the century” — Jack Welch — to Bucharest in June. Bookmark him. Links in Romanian.

December 13, 2007

Leads

138 brands, sorted alphabetically: pencils.

December 14, 2007

Flickr Stats

Flickr introduces Stats — feature only available to pro account holders.

December 17, 2007

Secret culture

Cultural guerrilla of illegal restorers establish secret workshop in Pantheon and clandestinely repair the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Wow.

December 18, 2007

All of them

iPhone, six months after debuting, is already outselling all Windows Mobile phones combined. Via DF.

December 19, 2007

Shrinking

Tilt-shift photography: Ben Thomas, City Shrinker; Cosmin Bumbuț, Tilted Land [pdf].

December 29, 2007

Bangkok

Siam Paragon shopping mall panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

Siam Paragon, Bangkok. Click to enlarge.

Bangkok

Siam Paragon shopping mall panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

Siam Paragon’s top floor, Bangkok. Click to enlarge.

Bangkok

Bangkok street panorama, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Bangkok, 2007.

Bangkok street panorama. Click to enlarge.

Patong

360° panorama of Patong Beach, Cristian -Kit- Paul, Phuket, 2007.

360° panorama of Patong Beach. Click to enlarge.

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