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Giant foreboding turtle and other interesting artwork.

Simmons and Burke have a lousy website but it is worth digging through for some of their massive collages of images found online.

Blip.fm is like Twitter for music.  I have to admit that this one is aimed right at me.

Boxer has gotten DOS emulation for games, something that always sucked, simple enough to actually use without wasting away a few long nights.

ColorZilla Firefox extension is a color picker for the browser.  I only use a couple plug-ins, but this is one of them.

Seven popular fonts for designers and a nice description for each.

Some beautiful art by Tony Ariawan.

Cal Henderson at Djangocon gives a very amusing talk, which eventually leads to some actual discussion of Django.

Some (nsfw?) stupidity that still amuses me every time I see it.  I’ve said it before: cultural connotations don’t go away if you just ignore them.  A designer legitimately has to avoid this kind of situation.

And here is the silly stuff that I finish with.

Normally I don’t believe in making a dead simple tool virtually unusable for the stake of style.  But damn, that watch is hot.

Some links to good stock texture sites.  High resolution textures can really spice up your site if used right.

Listen up: these guys have shown you how to make an online store.  That is how it’s done.

I recommend reading the entirety of The Pragmatic Programmer, but if you don’t have the time, at least read the list of tips.

The last.fm people do quality control right.

Here is how you market your tequila.

Some JavaScript graphing and charting tools.  As with many things, there are innumerable options, but only a handful of truly good ones.

The (potentially nsfw nudity) works of Jasper Goodall.  Does your boss hate art, I wonder…?  Seriously though, this stuff is solid.

shinywhitebox seems to be the best (reasonably priced, starting at $20 USD) Mac screen capture program I can find.  Here is something I made with the demo version: shinywhitebox test.

And now the goofy (and possibly stale) stuff, like the Adventures of Wassup Holmes, information on how babby formed, and finding out the hard way that she has a boyfriend.

Lastly, a reminder not to give in to regret.

A fantastic talk by Clay Shirky about the idea of a “cognitive surplus”.  What do gin and sitcoms have in common besides being fantastic together?  Watch to find out.

The subway doesn’t really work this way, but this surrealist comic is fantastic.

This video featuring the personifications of famous fonts has been making its rounds on social news sites lately, but it is too good to leave out.

Destee Nation Shirt Company has an enticing slogan: “Real shirts from real places.”  Great products, and totally feeds my need to have unique stuff.

This seems like a reasonably good design blog: dropping it the old RSS reader to see how it sits.  Let me know if you know of other good ones.

And lastly our token ridiculousness: an anamotronic monkey head attached to a Roomba.

First, thanks to Matt Round who inspired me to do dumps in this format, and whose blog is fantastic.

Here is some straight-talking about what makes good tequila. I always found that there is some good, subtle, tasty tequilas out there, but now I know what makes them different. I personally enjoy the very aged, woody types.

About as functional as your common music player’s visualizer, but this one visualizes the Eclipse commit history.

I’m usually pretty hard on time elapse pictures of urban transportation (what could be more trite in photography nowadays?), but this fellow proved that it can still be done in an interesting way.

Elephant’s Dream, which 2 years ago billed itself as the first “Open” movie, was written with free tools such as Blender and is licensed under Creative Commons. It is a fairly enjoyable 11-minute journey of two odd fellows in a beautiful but sinister machine world.

Here is a picture of Venus passing in front of the sun. Sometimes astronomical pictures give me a sense of awe that nothing else really can.

SquirrelFish. Everyone should look to these folks next time they need inspiration for naming their JavaScript interpreter. And the logo? Spectacular.

The Slashdot era was about news without writers, only editors. The Digg era was about news with just users. Next, Twitturly shows us that all you need is the algorithm. An excellent use of Twitter’s latent “What people are talking about” data.

Uncrate is “The Buyer’s Guide for Men” but it is better described as “Badass product you know you want every day.”

Not only does Ginger People’s candy have that perfect sweet-hot ginger taste, but their ginger people art is unforgettably charming. I haven’t seen their ginger beer in stores, but I love their other products and the noble dark and stormy enough that I plan on ordering some.

A quiz that shows how well you remember the logos that you see every day.

And to end on a pointless note, here are some dog speeders.

I want to call this crazy jewelry steampunk, but it is a lot more subtle and creative than that would probably suggest.

Here is an image search inspired by Mac OS’s cover flow.

Turns out that Taco Bell can be badass.

A 2d map of color words arranged by their place on the color wheel.  And there is a lot of them.

If you’ve ever been curious how Banana Wrapping turns out, now you know.