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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.

Turn terrible business jargon into plain English.

I'm enjoying this book by Jeremy Keith. The book itself is nicely designed too.

Nice list with concise summaries of some major features of HTML5. [via mathowie]

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]

Nice quick tutorial about CSS opacity in Safari/Firefox and workarounds for IE.

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.

Impossible! I had no idea Airplane! was based on an earlier movie. This video shows where the dialog overlaps between the two.

"Yet despite all the innovations in the iPhone 4, without basic telephony service it’s just a piece of shit." Matt Honan succinctly sums up Apple's AT&T problem. The frustrating part is that it's potentially solvable by opening things up to other carriers.

"Building a great display for typography without building great typographic tools is a dereliction of duty." I've been noticing this too especially on the iPad's potentially gorgeous display. The app-makers, including Apple, just don't seem to care. [via jessamyn]

Zen medium format photos by Ryan Carver. Nice to see his photos outside of Flickr. [via mathowie]

Danny Sullivan on the unhappy relationship/different norms between blogs and the mainstream media. [via mneznanski]

This site uses open health and crime data to rank your county on the seven deadly sins. [via anil]

Love these long exposure night landscapes--uniquely Midwestern.

Nice interactive visualization that shows the current time across major time zones.

Nice flowchart by Julian Hansen featuring 50 popular fonts.

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

adobe complimentary color tool

Matt has a great summary of South by Southwest Interactive 2010.

Google Tech Talk by Amy Jo Kim about "Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software".

Jesse Schell talks about Facebook games, moving beyond them, and the scary future of achievements unlocked in real life.

"This is the insidious practice of color-grading every movie with a simplified, distilled palette of teal and orange..."