(tags: via:bkerr sur­re­al­ism cutups comic Garfield humor mashup amus­ing effec­tive)

(tags: busi­ness movies visu­al­iza­tion information-​​graphics graphic-​​design Flash amaz­ing)

Amaz­ing series of laser-​​engraved gen­er­ated art­foms. Try­ing to dis­cern if they’re paper, plas­tic, card­stock.. or what. Want one.

(tags: generative-​​art make engrav­ing art graphic-​​design sculp­ture)

(tags: acad­e­mia cultural-​​norms gen­er­al­ism spe­cial­iza­tion personal-​​brand social-​​norms learning-​​by-​​doing pro­fes­sors)

“Judges spend all day enforc­ing the code of law. They get offended when par­ties to a suit are cav­a­lier about the law or rules of procedure.”

(tags: finance gov­ern­ment eco­nom­ics credit-​​crunch reces­sion fore­clo­sure mort­gages con­sumerism banks)

(tags: illus­tra­tion graphic-​​design his­tory comi futur­ism industrial-​​design graph­ics vin­tage art dig­i­ti­za­tion)

“… time goes by and the world shifts, and the traces of the past are unstable.”

(tags: his­tory nanohis­tory change reflec­tion mem­ory land­scape life)

(tags: artist illus­tra­tion port­fo­lio sci­ence scientific-​​illustration visu­al­iza­tion graphic-​​design)

(tags: via:cshalizi lib­er­tar­i­an­ism pol­i­tics social-​​norms cultural-​​norms argu­ment phi­los­o­phy famil­iar)

“You Had Me at Nanotech”

(tags: star­tups entre­pre­neurs ven­ture cap­i­tal cloth­ing amus­ing)

Appar­ently fea­tur­ing char­ac­ters from _​Swordsman III_​, _​Ladyhawke_​, _​Shanghai Knights_​ and _​The Bride with White Hair_​. Poten­tially horrible.

(tags: movie trailer Kung-​​Fu Chi­nese com­edy scary)

via:Sivacracy

(tags: tele­mar­ket­ing activism amus­ing busi­ness com­mu­ni­ca­tion con­sumerism con­ver­sa­tions hacks mar­ket­ing pranks research social spam)

(tags: pol­i­tics New-​​Orleans gov­ern­ment con­trol media activism pod­cast­ing)

“All it takes is one per­son to stand up and say ‘fuck this.’”

(tags: blog­ging business-​​culture social-​​norms activism rights expres­sion news pol­icy career personal-​​brand ethics)