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This is delicious. Don't miss the eye fish or the larval horse. Or the tennis ball or the library entrance.

Profile of the Burt's Bees company and their success.

We were just talking about this useless dialog box/warning/alert the other day.

A masterful overview of the two fonts. How they look best and where they've been used.

Beautiful paper sculpture.

A language based on whistling confined to a small island. Has a vocabulary of over 4,000 words and is being taught in schools to prevent its extinction.

Hehe.

"A tool for visual layout development of YAML based CSS layouts." YAML stands for Yet Another Multicolumn Layout.

"Striped background generator."

Detailed to the point of being almost unreadable!

"JavaScript Regex Tester." Put in your test data and your regular expression and see if it works.

Tutorials, examples, patterns, and reference.

"In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules."

From the masters. Good ideas and inspiration.

An interview with Apple's brilliant product designer, who possesses a "fanatical care beyond the obvious stuff."

Notes on the growing importance of design in business. Good short reads.

Fred Armisen and friends do a skit show. It is good.

"Ponoko is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand."

Oh, Japanese TV.

A fine review of the trend in minimalism on the web and in technology in general since the late 90s.

A fascinating and in-depth look at the design (mostly typographical) of Toronto's subway system. A long read, but if you're into typography, a great one.

Awwww.

Persai is the Web 2.0 app of the guys who write Uncov. They've been pre-blogging the app for months now. I'm not sure how many people are reading this because I've seen zero mention of it anywhere, but it's a nice model to follow anyway.

Ugly "Browse..." buttons be gone!

On starting over. "It's better to have something we're both proud off than to try and salvage the work done so far. Sometimes you have to go all the way through the design process before you realize that you've built the wrong thing."

The story behind why the O'Reilly books have animal engravings on them.

Photographed by Dean. "In a bold move, the UMass Office of Information Technologies makes a stand against violating intellectual property rights by....violating intellectual property rights?"

A history of Amazon's site design, and a preview of what's next.