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Matt was profiled in the McMInnville paper. I snuck into the picture somehow.

Images from around the Web. Looks like a fun way to browse, but I wish the images were a bit bigger.

Awesome intricate bamboo iPhone case. [via Hey Stuff]

Glossy photo book of urban decay in Detroit.

Nice list of board books for kids to revisit.

"This demo is an implementation of a full 8-bit color cycling engine, rendered into an HTML5 Canvas in real-time." Nice look at the lost video game art of color cycling to show movement.

Great list of design laws to keep in mind. Seems that users are waging a constant battle against Hick's Law. [via glass]

"There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms." Wha? This is hard to believe.

I think we're safely out of spoiler territory now so I can post this great analysis of Toy Story 3.

Neven Mrgan has a great point: when a satire gets too close to the subject it's taking down is it still satire?

Great 50's comic art.

Frozen bananas in a food processor = ice cream? I need to try this!

Great idea, I'd use them.

Images of the future I'm supposed to be living in! Manned space flight art by Chesley Bonestell in the 50's.

Brazilian visual arts magazine. You can read them here in a Flash reader.

Nice way of summarizing the stories of the World Cup teams by finding similar American sports stories/teams.

Nice minimalist inline MP3 player. I hope they move from Flash to HTML5 eventually.

Photographer, alphabet trucks and abandoned gasoline stations.

Nice prints.

Photographer, vanishing America.

Photographer, homes at night.

"Nothing focuses the mind of the reporter like being asked to specify what exactly they’d like to see done, and it’s much easier for a developer to scan a list with actual tasks right in the sentence construction." Good advice for personal to-do lists too.

Fun way to browse full-size images from Google Image Search results.

Nice tool for turning a word with unicode characters into the HTML equivalent.

adobe complimentary color tool

The history of Alfred E. Neuman (aka. Melvin Cowznofski). I always thought he originated with Mad Magazine.

These are fantastic. I love matchbox design.

"A Collection of iPhone Home Screens." I found this a while back but couldn't remember the name or how to get back to it because the keywords are saturated. My Google-fu was hot today, and I'm bookmarking for future reference.

This Java class is full of helpful functions for escaping and unescaping strings, and it can be used within ColdFusion (if you're into that).

"Cultivating a Late 19th-Century Style at Home." This seems to be an IRL manifestation of that thing.

Aha! This answers a question I didn't even know I had, but I've been unconsciously wondering. I thought this "look" came from the image-collecting Tumblr crowd. But apparently it's a thing IRL.