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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Obama Moves Into the Whitehouse(.gov)

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Whitehouse.gov Redesign

At noon today, even before he was officially sworn in, Barack Obama officially became the 44th President of the United States of America, and as quickly as he said his oaths, the www.whitehouse.gov website was re-launched. The new design reflects the aesthetics of the Obama campaign, and is clean and accessible to a very broad audience. Sections are large and obvious, and it seems to be easy enough to navigate.

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Bittersweet, by Serendipity Artist on Flickr

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Bittersweet by Serendipity Artist on Flickr

See more artwork here.

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MAKE Magazine’s Laser Communicator

Monday, January 12, 2009

DIY Laser Communicator from MAKE Magazine

I was stuck at a Borders this weekend and browsed through the latest issue of MAKE Magazine, which happens to be entirely dedicated to DIY spy-tech! There was an awesome article about building your own laser-pointer communicator device for sending super secret messages via LASER BEAM, and honestly, I can’t think of a cooler way to send super secret messages. Thankfully the giving season lingers, and MAKE has made the PDF of the article available for free online.

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“This Is Where We Live” by 4th Estate

Sunday, January 11, 2009

4th Estate's "This In Where We Live"

Amazing paper-based stop animation short to celebrate UK publisher 4th Estate’s 25th anniversary. Also, behind-the-scenes time-lapse video of the set creation and more on Vimeo.

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Etsy Finds: Gooseflesh

Saturday, January 10, 2009

I came across her prints on Flickr, but Helle Jorgensen’s Gooseflesh has some great things on sale at Etsy. Sea-inspired soft crocheted urchins and corals? Go buy now!

Helle Jorgensen's Gooseflesh at Etsy

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gOS: It suddenly got very nerdy…

Saturday, January 10, 2009

gOS Screenshot

I was recently re-installing VMWare Fusion, as it’s very handy to have an installation of Windows around to test websites and what not. While setting up the Virtual Machine, I wondered, “What other OSes could I install while I’m at it?”

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