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Dabbled in HTML and JavaScript a bit to make barebones versions of Tic-Tac-Toe and Hangman
The first thing you remember, of course, is the voice — at one time, the most famous voice in the world, the voice that bridged decades from World War II to the waning years of the 20th century, the voice that conjured romance and loneliness, bright dreams and misplaced hopes, the voice that millions danced to, made love to and listened to on jukeboxes and radios and hi-fi sets. It was a voice, Bruce Springsteen would later say, filled with ”bad attitude, life, beauty, excitement, a nasty sense of freedom, sex and a sad knowledge of the ways of the world.” - Michiko Kakutani
Frank Sinatra, born on this day in 1915
Cities Under Domes : The architect and all-around visionary R. Buckminster Fuller believed that one day, cities in cold-weather regions could be encased under temperature-controlled geodesic domes. Although it might sound loopy, Fuller argued back in the ’60s that such a dome over New York City would pay for itself in 10 years, as there would be no more need for snow removal. In addition to temperature control, the domes were also supposed to contain germ filters that would have prevented us from getting sick too.
100 Years of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got: Gizmodo
Google Goggles - Mobile phone technology at its best
When I buy my own house these are going to be mandatory.
$10 USB Power Outlets Sound Like a No-Brainer
whoa!
(via:nickmcglynn)
Just fucking genius
adamcoomes (via soupsoup) (via rikin)
This is how I multitask
I wonder how long it would take me to print out and assemble an entire sentence in this font.
ThinkGeek :: Geek Love Poem T-shirt
I’m not sure what’s geekier: this shirt or the fact that I Googled the text on the shirt after I saw someone wearing it, thinking, “this would make for a nice Tumblr post!”
ParentsPstcrd_091509.jpg (via Pedestrian Typography)
This one’s really for us Type nerds - love it.
Daily Doodle 12.10.09 - Screw you Tropicana
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Wowzers,...
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12.10.09
We decided to organize some camera statistics from photos uploaded to Tumblr, and it revealed some interesting data:

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12.09.09
Daily Doodle - Ugly Sweater Season
12.02.09
One of my favorite photos of vintage New York City. This is Times Square, circa 1950.
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