The Faces Behind the Famous Hands.

Really sexy photos of really sexy houses, with appropriate captions.

Infographics, from the victorian age.

The place known as The Island of the Dolls in Mexico is one of the creepiest places on Earth.

Weirdimals is one of the best uses of Quentin I’ve seen.

I sometimes imagine things like this: Found Functions.

If you visit no other site today, visit this site: Custom Letters 2009.

Both copies of the declaration were printed using Caslon. Think about it: the first two printed copies of the Declaration of Independence were printed using type from a British designer. Doesn’t that make the ideas just slightly more subversive?

Letters from the Hellbox

For example:
7. Do not announce your name. No jokes, no flirting, no cuteness.
35. Do not eat or drink in plain view of guests.
38.Do not call a guy a “dude.”
39. Do not call a woman “lady.”

One Hundred Things.

The bridge pioneered the use of a moveable safety net that saved the lives of 19 construction workers over the course of the bridge’s manufacture. These 19 went on to become members of the unofficial “Halfway to Hell” Club.

A series of photos of the building of the Golden Gate Bridge

The problem with SEO is that the good advice is obvious, the rest doesn’t work, and it’s poisoning the web.

Amen Brother. Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists My advice has always been: Make a good site, people will come.

“Do they not realize that if the accredited composers who have come into vogue by reason of merit and labor are refused a just reward for their efforts a condition is almost sure to arise where all incentive to further creative work is lacking and compositions will no longer flow from their pens or where they will be compelled to refrain from publishing their compositions at all and control them in manuscript? What, then, of the playing and talking machines?”

100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words