The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
User Interface Design Framework -
A free, huge GUI elements library for Illustrator including 290 free vectors icons.
“These are all the Twinkie Denial Conditions described in my “Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie!” Designer’s Notebook columns. Each one is an egregious design error, although many of them have appeared…
A gallery of Keynote and Powerpoint presentation inspiration.
Another brilliant example of BitTorrent being used for good and further proof that the internet makes it harder than ever for big companies and organisations to have complete control over their own message.
The Yes Men pose as corporations, governmental organizations or NGOs they believe are hypocritical or enacting harmful policies. They deliver speeches, send out press releases and set up websites to either take the organization’s policies to what The Yes Men believes are their logical conclusions, or to reverse the organization’s official position.
In theory, the latter is useful as a PR stunt because it forces the organization to step forward and reiterate its potentially unpopular or controversial stance on an issue, thus raising awareness in the public and turning up the heat.
You can download “The Yes Men Fix The World” from Vodo, and find out more at theyesmen.org.
(I love the message in the footer fo their site: Take what you want! We live in the Creative Commons.)
(via foomandoonian’s halfblog)
Insane Star Wars Pop Art by Thomas B! This design was inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s 1963 piece, “Whaam!”. R2-D2 is having a BLAST!
Star Wars PopArt - Battle by Thomas B / Bergie81 (Twitter)
Via: WFDJ
Wish I had thought of this!
Transform Your iPhone Into a Mario-Loving Games Console? There’s A Case For That!
The entire cast of AMC’s The Walking Dead (via io9)
Looks great! I hope this is successful enough to be an ongoing series, like the comic. A big part of the appeal is the feeling that it will never end and the characters just have to live in the world for the rest of their lives.
Hackbus -
Hackbusses (or mobile hacklabs or hack vehicles) are a low-threshold way of bringing the culture of hacking to the people. They are migratory learning and teaching units, taking the talented hackers…
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VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of…
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Finding the new BBC News redesign a bit too RED?
The Safari extension Unred wil calm things down a bit, and also reclaim some vertical space for you.