[days] - Merry season to you and yours
[listen] - added a list of podcasts to the music page (at right, middle). radiolab, sound opinions, this american life, quirks & quarks, ideas, definitely not the opera, and others. further suggestions welcome.
[typography] - a copied comment from Font or Typeface?:
The correct hierarchy of typographic terminology, as I learned it, is broken down into the four Fs.FOUNDRY: The designer and/or manufacturer of sets of type. Berthold Direct Corporation is a type foundry.
FAMILY: Related typefaces from the same foundry. Berthold Garamond is a type family.
FACE: The style of the type (regular, medium, bold, etc.). Berthold Garamond regular is one typeface while Berthold Garamond italic is a different typeface.
FONT: A typeface at a specific size. Berthold Garamond italic, 10 point is one font while Berthold Garamond italic, 12 point is a different font.
simply for the joy of the esoteric terminology hierarchy. See Template:Typography terms - Wikipedia if you need more.
[japan] - Children take over at Tokyo theme park
Kidzania tokyo - Flickr: Search
Playgrounds For The Elderly: Fit In An Aging Society
[learn] - How to Teach a Child to Argue
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights animated.
The Art of Complex Problem Solving
[nsfw] - When Lily Allen originally wrote the song, she had in mind the far-right-wing British National Party and George W. Bush (which the ignorable official video addresses). Then this year, after some random folks made The Big Fat Gay Collab video mashup, and Lily saw and liked it live on French Television, other groups have been joining in, from England, France, and Brazil, to Hungararian celebrities and more. [Potential intercultural overgeneralisation comparison fun! Which country's scene has the best fashion?] A friendly little earworm!
Also good ditties by her, with official videos, are LDN, The Fear, and Not Fair.
[mutter] - Hello, far away friends! Send me your news and views and musings! I'm off to picnic in the park.
[food] - Breakfast project by Jon Huck
Christopher Walken Roasts a Chicken
food-designing food and Kitschy food by Marti Guixe
Time-lapse using a Canon 5D and a Pclix - Joi Ito's Web (music by Cornelius)
[cats] - The two talking cats
More Men Are Unabashedly Embracing Their Love of Cats - NYTimes.com
Yume Neko DS - Japanese Trailer 2. nothing to do with the game, but adorable.
[commonplace] - Always the archivist's urge to curate and catalogue overcame the editor's obligation to dispense with and discard. And so he went on accumulating. - Geoff Dyer
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
"In God We Trust". I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. - Mark Twain
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Dorothy Parker
[toys] - Fwis • Readymech Series 002 - printable foldable papercraft (ooo, and Spitefuls: Disaster Dioramas)
Plushie:An Interactive Design System for Plush Toys. adorable on so many levels.
Bandai Talking "Big Guy" Figure (1999) (from the splendid graphic novel Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot)
Blackbeltjones/Work: Toy/Story (site broken, archived copy, scroll down 4 or 5 screens to "Toy/Story")
YouTube - "The Vinyl Frontier" Comic Con Trailer. possibly coming out this year.
[learn] - Duelity
Frans Lanting's lyrical nature photos | Video on TED.com (download or watch fullscreen)
How to fix a broken butterfly wing - Live Monarch Foundation - youtube (thanks joel!)
GOOD: Vampire Energy - youtube - unplug your microwave! (via)
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard - cartoons and guilt!
Absolute Zero | A Sense of Scale | NOVA | PBS
An Interactive Database of Ideas - BusinessWeek
Growing up online | FRONTLINE | PBS
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