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Sleeping Patterns, a collection of photographs of discarded mattresses and the patterns they display, by Adam Shield.
10.29.2012
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Move along people, nothing to see here. Just a yacht designed and built for and to the demands of Steve Jobs. More images at the link. I wonder if that’s Gorilla Glass on the deck?
10.29.2012
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by doug bartow
File Under Funny: Buzzword Bullshit Detector (by Goodby Silverstein & Partners)
10.26.2012
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Finally. Someone gets it right with the your-logo-in-a-crappy-typeface exercise. Oleg Tarasov recreates popular logos — icons and graphics and all — in Comic Sans and Comic Sans style.
10.26.2012
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by armin
Fantastic geometric fruit pattern photographs by Sakir Gökcebag. You have to click your way through his site, but it’s worth it.
10.26.2012
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After 1,000 submissions the Low Times has posted the 31 finalists of a t-shirt contest that asks for “the WORST POSSIBLE design for the band of your choice” using type and clip art from Customink.com. [Ed.’s Note: in defense of Customink, they provide a great service with great customer support and very good quality. Anyway, some of the entries are hilarious.]
10.26.2012
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by armin
Weight Watchers targets guys with the help of Charles Barkley, reading a list of penis nicknames. Funny. Language SFW unless someone knows you are watching an ad about penis nicknames.
10.26.2012
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by diane zerr
The Funny Bones Calendar Cards were created in the late 1800s by Dr. Louis Crusius, but not published until 1910. The full story is on the Letterology blog and has some pretty interesting facts including what may be the inspiration for the famous MAD character Alfred E. Newman.
10.25.2012
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Etsy seller Roogna’s mash-ups of My Little Pony and Star Wars characters.
10.25.2012
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