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I’m all for designing with simplicity in mind. But when I was shown this sign by a Bangor ER triage nurse after breaking a crown off my molar, I couldn’t help noticing that the picture had a couple of names in the “credits.” Which left me with two questions: 1) Did both scientists get tenure as a result of creating this innovative “pain scale”? And 2) did this clever pair go on to create the US government’s color-coded Terror Threat Levels?

Are you getting subliminal messages from your spam-blocker? Check out these examples of captchas gone crazy. (And no, I don’t want to enable images, thank you very much!)

Or, how my twelve-year-old got featured in Wired, BoingBoing, and News.com, by purchasing a product and then doing the opposite of what it says on the instructions. It’s a lesson on how to make work that goes viral.

From the XKCD school of Web design. [Link]

I’ve definitely had days like this.

I’ve definitely had days like this.

This is a really nice demonstration of how a mic, a speaker, and some software can animate inert objects. I would love to see a kindergarten go at these toys.

“U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion.” Wasn’t that William Gibson’s definition of cyberspace?

“U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion.” Wasn’t that William Gibson’s definition of cyberspace?

Guess what: young kids these days have never seen HomeStarRunner! Welcome to my world.

Guess what: young kids these days have never seen HomeStarRunner! Welcome to my world.

Guess what: young kids these days have never seen HomeStarRunner! Welcome to my world.

If Amy Vanderbilt had invented Facebook

If Amy Vanderbilt had invented Facebook

If Amy Vanderbilt had invented Facebook

These whimsical projects by Aram Bartholl remind me of projects from this past semester’s Contagious Media class: http://datenform.de/indexeng.html

These whimsical projects by Aram Bartholl remind me of projects from this past semester’s Contagious Media class: http://datenform.de/indexeng.html

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