This makes me smile. Los Angeles is spending Microsoft’s money to purchase email and application support from Google.
[Via SAI]
It’s decorative gourd season…
Outrageously hilarious. It takes a masterpiece like this to remind me just how much I love fall.
When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, a**holes. Guess what season it is—f**king fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant f**king squash.
[via Kottke]
Brain Wave Sofa
A pretty sweet sofa, made from real brain waves. It looks comfy at first glance, but I have a feeling that prolonged usage can lead to some serious ergonomic issues.
[Via IA]
The power of time off
I [Stefan Sagmeister] run a graphic design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year.
[via GraphicHug]
Microsoft capable of learning
Microsoft is not often associated with words like progressive, pro-active, adaptive and evolving. But they did prove that the do possess the ability to learn on at least one level. Today Microsoft admitted that their planned sponsorship of a special edition of Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy show might not be such a good idea after all. This wouldn’t be very noteworthy if Microsoft hadn’t been hyping it almost as much as Windows 7, and if it wasn’t something that the rest of the free world already knew.
Floppy disk sketchbook
I love my Moleskine notebooks, and the Behance Dot Grid Book is pretty sweet too. But the construction of the Konigi 5.25″ floppy disk sketchbook is giving the other two a run for the money.
U2ube
For anyone that missed it last night, at 8:30 PM PT (11:30 PM ET) U2 broadcast a show from the 360° tour live from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on YouTube. The show was then rebroadcast at 11:00 PM PT (2:00 AM ET) and will allegedly be made available for on-demand viewing on YouTube.
The show was fantastic, as they always are. And watching it live on YouTube is the second-best thing to actually being there. Hopefully the concert DVD they have planned will be just as epic.
Update: It’s been reported that the live concert was streamed over 10 million times.
Cederholm makes the switch to WordPress
Dan Cederholm has joined the WordPress community and we’re proud to have him. He was even gracious enough to drop a new design at the same time. But it sounds like it’ll get some tweaks in time as he’s not too thrilled with it.
Along with the backend switch, I made a few minor visual tweaks to the site as well (hence the title of this post, “WoodPress”). Nothing terribly exciting. If anything, it’s a slight step backward, to the layouts of SimpleBits’ past.
Microsoft CEO unveils new operating system, on a Mac
This is almost too good to be true. I don’t know whether this was a prank by the graphics guys at NBC or just a goof on their part. But the end result is irony and hilarity in droves. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on The Today Show this morning and behind him on a huge video screen sat a graphic touting their new operating system, Windows 7, but it appeared on an image of a first-generation MacBook Pro.
Too funny.