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Tool to find which of your photos have been listed in Flickr's "Interestingness"-based "Explore" page.

Very nice, very creative business cards, but don't expect them to fit in your wallet or Rolodex. Check the comments for bonus footage from "American Psycho."

Nice recordings of several different sorts of insects. Lots of crickets and bees.

Like it says, a shell script to automatically install the perfect Ruby on Rails development environment on OS X. Useful!

A list of customer service phone numbers and directions for each on how to get directly to a human being.

In the darkroom, you can tilt the photo paper onto which film is projected to get a focal scheme that makes the picture's subject look like a miniature model. Here's how to do it in Photoshop!

On negotiating your way into better prices. Certainly a case-by-case hobby, but there are some lessons to be learned here. Somewhat lengthy.

A great interview with a great designer. His anecdotes and wisdom are particularly valuable, especially the answer to the last question and his five bits of advice.

They cry when eating, but "what causes the tears remains a bit of a mystery." This article is full of great lines. Note the onion-and-pepper experiment and the last two paragraphs in particular.

An excellent, diagram-guided overview of Fitt's Law, which declares that the closer and larger something is, the easier it is to access. The relationship is curved: small changes to small items can have a large impact.

Good collection of screensavers, if you're into that sort of thing. I'm partial to Fliqlo, a big stylish flip-clock.

From the US National Library of Medicine, a huge collection of free, public-domain images from anatomical atlases. A great wealth of material. Wish it were designed better and that the books were all scanned rather than some photographed.

It takes time and a lot of guts, but you'll save money. "It really works... but it works only if you truly are willing to walk away... and then refuse to bend when they try to put you off or change the terms. Stay civil, do not let any emotion in."

"An artist is Advanced when they do something that is neither expected of them nor the opposite of what is expected of them." Tongue-in-cheek, but the article lives on. Note the notes on Val Kilmer and C-Murder.

On Advancement Theory: it's not bad; you just don't get it. "The most Advanced figure of all time is Lou Reed [who in] 1986 released the song 'The Original Wrapper,' in which he raps about AIDS, Louis Farrakhan, and waffles."

"Your guide to understanding Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and other highly Advanced musicians." If a genius does something you don't understand, it's probably even more genius.

America's latest "Hitler" is Ahmadinejad, Iraq is Bush's Vietnam, and the NYTimes "failed the First Amendment." "You'd think that in this country with so many smart people, that we can't possibly do the same dumb thing again." But "there is no learning."

In food, wall sockets, lamps, buildings, trees, tents. More fun and uncanny than you think it'll be. Why does it cheer us up to see human expressions in inanimate objects?

The story of the Top 20 Hit that never was. Oh well, it's still one of the best.

Ending shots of old movies. Nice style and typography.

Excellent toy rail-based exhibitions and installations in art galleries, on the water and tops of buildings.

An international body that promotes responsible forestry and printing practices. I've started noticing their seal around. It's good to know this is going strong.

A great profile of the director, whose latest film opens tomorrow in New York City.

Notes on optimizing for speed and the benefits thereof. Note: "If someone completes their task on a site successfully, they will feel the site was faster than it truly was. If they can’t succeed, they will perceive it as being slower."

He was introduced as a "petty and cruel dictator." An interesting event. A long writeup compiling all of Ahmadinejad’s points and his answers to the crowd's questions.

On the difference between the vastly inferior Arial and the venerated Helvetica. Watch for that spur.

The Demekin camera closeup, with instructions.

"Demekin" is Japanese a type of fish; this is a really small fisheye lens camera. I just got one in the mail from my friend Kaname!

A very nice short history and profile of the Pentagram design and architecture firm.

Great interviews with web developers and luminaries, including Khoi Vinh, Jason Fried of 37signals, Jeff Veen, Merlin Mann, Heather Champ, Dan Cederholm, and Guy Kawasaki.