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A little late on this but sad just the same. The creator of the famous Anthora grecian, paper coffee cup passed away earlier this week. He had an amazing personal story and his most well known work will surely live on for quite some time. Farewell, and thank you.

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Photo gallery from The Big Picture on Boston.com of images documenting the fire aboard the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the environmental disaster that has ensued upon the rig’s collapse.

Information design powerhouse Stamen Design has a done a new Twitter visualization site for Nike that shows how well-Tweeted a particular playoff matchup is, real time.

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Someone has finally decided to try and shame CNN into getting rid of all the salacious, non-newsworthy content they love to prominently position on their home page. And I couldn’t be prouder.

These need no introduction. Just enjoyment.

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Crazy footage from the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket launch.

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Navigate your way through the first level of Super Mario Brothers with Zelda, Mega Man, Samus or others right in your browser. This could be dangerous way to waste time.

I would’ve never thought I could get excited about an FTP application but here I am, wishing tomorrow was here so I could download Transmit 4 when I’m mildly coherent. The guys at Panic are ridiculous.

One could never truly put a dollar value on the enjoyment that a portable music player can provide. But you sure can find out how much profit you would’ve made if you’d purchased Apple stock instead of a $399 first generation iPod in 2001. How would $11,914 sound?

Subway ridership in New York City changed quite a bit in 2009 for a variety of factors (ie. job losses, new stations, expanded routes, etc). The New York Times infographics staff has collected some of those reasons with the data in a handy-dandy map.