Design A decent button maker. I like looking at these. The idea has been around forever, but they’re still improving as internet technologies evolve. An excellent wine label. Buying wine by the label actually isn’t an awful idea. I always feel like people who care about making an excellent product also care more about
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Resources / Tools Here is a stock site just for silhouettes. Quality, free, focused stock sites are hard to find. SFXR is small app for quickly making old-school video game sound effects. The joy here is that they have predefined parameters for types of effects, such as “jump”, and you can choose a randomly generated
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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,
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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.
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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
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