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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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Super Happy Fun Time Friday

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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Super Happy Fun Time Friday

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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Mad Descent

Heidi sent me a link to a video of a snowboarder who is absolutely mad. The video is of his decent on Peak 7601 here in Alaska. Major intestinal fortitude.

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Noteable: TutorialBlog

TutorialBlog has notoriously resource-rich posts, and the latest one is no exception. If you have an eye out for vector resources for graphics then look no further.

There are similar posts on this site for things like Photoshop brushes and fonts, so it’s worth the time to dig a little deeper on this site.

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Super Happy Fun Time Friday

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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