blog archive for the 'quicklink' tag
A guy named Matthew Campbell assembled this gorgeous map of the US and what the people of each county call “soda”. Details, details, details.
[4 comments]Somebody, please buy this guy’s leather pants. Anyone out there famous, gay, or a biker that wears a size 34×34?
[1 comment]These two ads for the Utah State Fair featuring Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro are fantastic, even if you didn’t like Napoleon Dynamite. (I think.) [via]
[1 comment]You should read this short but fascinating interview with Sydney Frank, the guy who brought Jagermeister to the US, invented the Jägerettes (basically, shot girls), and started Grey Goose Vodka, which he recently sold to Bacardi for over $2 billion. Now, at 85, he owns a Bentley, and 2 big Maybachs, and donated $100 million to Brown University. Cool guy.
[3 comments]This fictional letter describes the “Origins of The American Military Coup of 2012,” but was not meant to be a prediction back in 1993 when it was written, but doesn’t seem all that far fetched when reading it now.
[1 comment]Big ideas come from big pencils. The shockingly good flash website for the Leo Burnett ad agency.
[0 comments]Time.com has a great article about what went on behind the scenes during the development of the iPod nano and the decision to lose the Mini entirely.
[0 comments]News Corp is now buying IGN, Internet Games Network, for $650 million, adding to its growing power on the web. They bought Intermix, creators of MySpace.com, a few months ago for $580 million.
[0 comments]Pandora is a very slick little flash application created by the Music Genome Project used to suggest new music to you based on songs or artists that you like. The app uses the attributes known by the genome project about each song and creates a profile that it can match against other songs. The Genome project “captures the essence of music at the most fundamental level” - “everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony.” Then you can go through and listen to all the recommendations, giving them thumbs up and thumbs down as you go. It’s a really great idea, that needs a little work, that could really revolutionize the way we all find new music we like, instead of the crap we have to tolerate on mainstream radio.
[0 comments]Very slick little CSS site, Komodo Media, has a nice tutorial on how to use CSS to make a star-rating system, but there are tons of other inspirational bits, if you look around.
[0 comments]Basically, everything on squidfingers’ website is awesome. From pixel art wallpaper to polaroid’s to javascript code samples. Excellent little source of inspiration.
[2 comments]There might not be anything funnier than unnecessary censorship. Jimmy Kimmel rules, plus, he’s BLEEPing Sarah Silverman.
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