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Super Happy Fun Time Friday

15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography - a collection of sites displaying informed treatment of type, collected by ilovetypography - another really great site. Yes, I know everyone is linking to this today but it is really good, so I am too.

Projekttriangle Design Studio - Work by a German graphic design studio. Beautiful.

Black Box Sculpt Studio - a Second Life in-world sculptie editor.

Particle Wizard - Create particle systems for Second Life without all the scripting. Buy in-world on Horowitz

Magento - Open source ecommerce solution for the web. Demo.

The Classic Mojo Shirt - from bearskinrug.co.uk. Because everyone needs an under enthused monkey hero.

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SkreemR - An MP3 search engine that has returned some interesting podcasts.

BM Custom WordPress Login Plugin - Create your own unique login screen for your WordPress installation. View Examples.

Name that Color - a color selector that returns the nearest named color swatch from a swatch you select from a spectrum. If nothing else it is a mildly entertaining way to find a little color inspiration. The author gathered the color names from places like Wikipedia, Crayola, and Color-Name Dictionaries like Resene.

Fall is here (in Alaska at least), and one of the great comfort foods of fall is zucchini. The Urban Vegan has posted a list 50 ways to stuff zucchini and all of them sound yummy. If my mom reads this she will fall off her chair - as a child I hated zucchini with a passion.

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Super Happy Funtime Friday

I’m seriously thinking about changing the Funtime Friday post to Super Silly Saturdays seeing as how I have rarely managed to actually make a Funtime Friday post on a Friday. On the other hand, Fridays are becoming fun again now that we’ve made it through the really busy season at work. Maybe I’ll give it a little more time.

60+ Places for Design Inspiration - a great collection of sites, magazines, and books. While there are many things on this list that I already read regularly, I some new sites and book recommendations that are great.

Superuse - A site dedicated to reuse and recycling. [via]

If you’re into reuse design you may also enjoy Emotionally Durable Design (isbn: 1844071812) - my best read yet this year.

The Serif - A design inspiration blog that is heavy on typography.

I’ve often wondered if the characters on those futuristic shows like StarTrek ever enjoyed Fridays or if they simply didn’t follow the convention of the traditional “Earth” calendar. I’m not much of a fan, but it seems I can’t really recall them ever making reference to weekly events, and why would they need to with star dates and all that? So, do they just relegate themselves to living at work and committing their lives dutifully to some remote federation light years from their duty stations? Are their crew quarrels over those who hog the holodeck schedule? Maybe I’m just not idealistic enough for intergalactic space exploration yet.

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del.icio.us Network Explorer - A visualization tool written in Processing that allows you to explore common connections among you, your network , and networks of others on del.icio.us.

Macro.scopia - Another Pipes-like webapp tha allows you to mash data together by using “blocks”. There is also a developers wiki available.

Abstract Background Tutorial - I’m not as up on all of the Illustrator tools as I should be and this tutorial outlines how to use the Blend Tool to create what I poorly describe as a warped ribbon effect. I’ve actually wanted to create something like this before.

Becoming an Evil Overlord - Things to consider before undertaking your transformation to evil overlord… or the good guy… or auxiliary evil characters.

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Links that should have been posted 23 Mar:

Sphelar: A spherical solar cell with the ability to utilize indirect light

Koral Content Collaboration: Share documents with a group and manage versions. [via]

Infrastructures and Their Discontents: Implications for Ubicomp: A research paper (PDF)

Moleskin Reloaded: Resurrect your sketchbook with this comprehensive tutorial on (re)binding a book by hand

Japanese Papercraft Box: a tutorial for making decorative boxes [via]

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It must be close to spring because I actually saw the temperature rise above 0°f today AND we move our clocks forward for daylight savings this Sunday (even though daylight savings is a more than antiquated concept for this day and age). It’s too bad because it was nice seeing the sun before I left for work. Now for the good stuff…

The Department of Spanish and Portugese at Berkley has a great-looking web site. Kudos to them for actually USING type on the web.

Jungle Crazy shows the latest and greatest deals from Amazon.com AND there is a feed available

Worldwide Fido: Yes, I have a dog, although I am not an obvious dog-person like some of the dog-weirdos out there. I wouldn’t actually go out and video my dog doing random things like the people on this site, but I would watch videos made by crazy people recording their dogs doing random things.

Whoa! Samsung has a 1.29mm thick LCD display. That is thin… and I am doubtful that a device that thin would be able to survive the rigors of me accidentally sitting on it.

Apophysis is an open source fractal flame editor. I came across a link to this site while searching for images on istockphoto.

Google Maps has a secret I hadn’t heard about until today. There are super-highres images for some areas and this posts explains how to access them. Even more here.

Bjork has a new album coming out in May that features a number of contributing artists.

The pi project features audio pieces created using the number or concept of Pi in some direct way.

vixy.net is an online FLV converter. Very handy if you have an FLV and can’t play it.

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Another belated installment of Fun Time Friday links, but never late than never, right?

National Mechanics restaurant and bar in Philadelphia. Great web site, but I didn’t know about the place when I actually lived in PA - so I have no idea if the food is good or not (the graphics say YES).

tlc: A community site out of the UK for sharing learning resources.

The 5 in 1 Camera Memory Stick - With a form factor similar to that of a flash drive, this digital camera can also capture 10 minutes of video, 120 minutes of voice recording, and has 128MB of flash memory for data storage.

Another HDR tutorial - from VanillaDays. This tutorial talks a lot about using Photomax to create this effect.

Toy Instructions - A wiki full of links to manuals and instructions for toys and games.

BarnRaiser releases version 0.7.7 of AroundMe, open source community software.

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Super Happy Fun Time Friday (Late)

Alright, so this Fun Time Friday post is a day late, but Friday was so insane there wasn’t time to do any reading at all. Since I am too lazy to come up with a clever name for Saturday link posts we’ll just pretend it is Friday.

40 Under 40 - a collection of photographs of British architects and their studios. Why? Well, isn’t there a  little design voyeur in  all of us? [via]

Docking Cars - More concepts of personal transportation solutions. While I fear I would get crushed to death by the behemoth 4x4s that rule the roads up here in Alaska - I secretly dream of never having to depend on an traditional internal combustion engine to get me back and forth from work and the grocery.

Interchange Tiles - Tiles decorated with 2D interpretations of highway interchanges as seen from GoogleEarth. Very beautiful. [via]

Planet Microformats - Another microformat site: news, tutorials, and resources pulled from microformats.org, Technorati, Flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, ma.gnolia, Newsvine, and Twitter

wink - Allows you to combine all of your online identities into one place. Also has a widget that lets you place all that stuff on your web site. [via]

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Sites that have stayed in open tabs today:

Google Buys Adscape - an ingame advertiser

boo box - Tag > Click > Money… supper consumerism from the comfort of your own web site.

A folding screen on a portable device

New energy-storing technology from EEStor

The String Doll Gang - Handmade string dolls from Thailand

Tabbed CSS navigation

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Things that have caught my eye today that I wish I had time to look at more, but will probably have to wait until I get home because of all the things that need to get finished before the weekend starts. LTMS (Laughing to Myself… after hearing the word weekend).

Imitating a Scanner Darkly: A tutorial on how to create this style of illustration from photos. Potential for creeping out your friends here.

FastStone Screen Capture: A little app that adds screen capture options to your context menu. I haven’t tried this yet so I’m not sure if it makes your system explode.

The Pixel to Em Calculator: If you don’t know what this means then you probably don’t need it.

GlasZone: Only because I like glass and love architectural glass.

Bus Tales: An interesting concept for a site. Now there is a place to tell everyone about the crazies you meet on the bus.

UNKL Brand Stuff: Cool fun things with lots of style.

When I get home my dog will be ecstatic, but that is because she has an IQ of 5.

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