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First Friday; first Friday links post:
Derek Powazek has a very simple redesign going…low/no maintenance.
Worst-Case Scenarios Online for, you know…
My latest favorite website indexed continues to amuse and delight.
Here is a list of links to 2006 year end lists. Here’s another good “Best of 2006″ list from Sound Opinions.
And in case you missed it, the Narthex [...]

Here we go again. Links noted this week:
Need to call an 800 number and speak to a human? The the gethuman database.
Star Wars nerdery. Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III. Surprisingly fascinating. (via kottke)
Some product designs of Marie-Louise Gustafsson. (via swissmiss)
The “Most Frequent Subjects” heat map from Comment is free - the [...]

“Changes, Revolutions and Other Assorted Diversions” is an online exhibition of drawings by Timothy B. Buckwalter that features eleven works “curated” by myself.
Here’s my description of the exhibit:
“It’s a new year. Resolutions have been made (not by me!) and they will all be broken. Vices are attempted to be tempered and tamped down. But when [...]

As part of my job I’m occasionally asked to help fine tune and clean up PowerPoint presentations. I’m always trying to get the presenter to strip away the extra bullet points and Microsoft clip art. The following rules have helped me and have been gathered from various places around the web and from experience. I [...]

Some links collected over the last two weeks..
Quipsologies is a “broadly themed” design link blog with anyone being able to post links.
The Covers website has been mentioned here before but they recently posted an excellent interview with book cover designer John Gall.
The annual 50 Most Loathsome People in America list has been publish by The [...]