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Sounds and sights that stir feelings and memories: The pleasure of by Vitùc.(via @thekidshouldseethis)

- A map of how New York tweeted during hurricane Sandy.

- What happens when Hygge and West + Lisa Congdon collaborate? Absolutely stunning wallpaper!

- The Useless Web takes you to different ‘useless’ websites. Some of them quite mesmerizing. They might be useless but soothing to the soul, if you ask me. Go to theuselessweb.com and give it a whirl.

- A seriously good-looking watering can.

- Google Type lets you create any text with found type from random Google images. (via @brainpicker)

- Interesting article: Your Employee Is an Online Celebrity. Now What Do You Do?

- What being a Web developer means today: Front-End Guidelines for Newcomers

- Compilation of Scenes from Top 250 Movies on IMDB in 2 1/2 Minutes.

- Pretend this sentence is a tweet. #thiswouldbethehashtag. The New York Times tries to explain Hashtags.

- How To Recover Deleted Voicemail On An iPhone

- You never know when you’ll need an Animated Pizza Gif.

- Do you have a crawling baby? Then you need this mop onesie.

- Gravity Tank in Chicago is looking to hire an Interaction Design Associate.

Time-Lapse of Hurricane Sandy Hitting New York City. So many people are without electricity and lost their homes. Please consider donating to the Red Cross.

- The Atlantic posts Photos of Hurrican Sandy’s Aftermath. Some of these are really intense, especially #16. And here from the New York Times.

- For Adults, a Catastrophe. For Children, a Memory.

- Here’s a look at a new book based on the diary of Jim Henson called Imagination Illustrated.

- The Human Centipede; Or, How to Move to New York, by Elissa Bassist. (via Maria)

- A fantastic collection of Tutorials to Make Toys from Trash.

- For those of you using Apple Mail, you might enjoy this Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet.

- Not that the world needs one more hipster wallet, but Tight is actually really cool.

- What would you say if there was a lightbulb that you could control with your smart phone?

- Why you should take your 20′s seriously

- San Francisco-based clothing company Betabrand is now offering sock insurance: Lose a Sock & They’ll Replace it

- Making fun of Skeuomorphic design. There’s a blog for everything. (via loop)

- Yes, you can donate that left over Halloween candy.

Kermit takes a course in Visual Thinking.

- A conversation between Debbie Millman and Erik Spiekerman? Yes, please. (via ze Hische)

- An Ampersand Bottle Opener.

- Data Nerd + New Parent? This is for you.

- We had one like these tv’s growing up. Now, my kids can at least ‘admire’ it as a pillow.

- Concrete Surfing? Surfers on motorized surfboards going down NYC streets.

- Manmade rainbows.

- Timehop launches an iOS app that takes you back in time to see your photos and social updates from *this exact day* in history. (via Amrit)

- Harvard University is now on SoundCloud, sharing audio content that explores life, thought, science, business and art. (via Amrit)

- Browse the Behance Network based on Pantone Colors.

- A big thank you to Jordan Galloway over at Brooklyn Based for this feature of yours truly.

- As a professional photo retoucher, Amy Dresser’s attitude is not to make an image perfect; but keep the character and remove what might be distracting. Watch Amy’s interesting talk at Luminance a few weeks ago.

- Amazon in SF is looking to hire a Head of User Experience.

- Geometry Daily now offers prints. This is dangerous. (Tumblr seems to be down at the moment)

(I met Kevin Clash yesterday. For real.)

- I love the South Brooklyn Curiosity Map by Makewell. You can find the printed map at The Invisible Dog or the Brooklyn Historial Society. Or you can download the PDF here or go all pro with this digital version.

- Minuetto, an absolutely stunning space-saving table.

- Why do we behave so oddly in lifts?

- Pencil Tidy Fruit Bowl.

- Etsy launched Gift Cards. This is awesome.

- Hey German speaking readers, my wonderful friend Martina Kink wrote a humorous book called Bad Hair Days. (Even though the title is in English, it’s all in German.)

- An app that tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie so you don’t miss anything. Hilarious.

- Pizza rules.

- Bunny Ears over the Years.(Thank you Michael)

- 50 Free Courses with Certificates from Great Universities. What about Power Searching with Google, Networks: Friends, Money, and Bites or A Crash Course on Creativity.

- Trackable suitcase automatically follows its owner

- Giggle in NYC is looking to hire a Senior Web Developer.

- Finally: Apple agrees on licensing terms for use of iconic Swiss clock design.

- My six year old loves Toca Boca as it is but this Dress Up Game will push her over the edge. In the app store October 25th!

- 30 WordPress tutorials for designers

- Look inside a Google Data Center

I spent the past three days at yet another amazing BrooklynBeta 2012. This is last year’s trailer.

- Location Based Racism.

- Now this is is an unusual design of a resume. Made me look.

- Cute. The Brooklyn Aquarium adopts a baby walrus.

- Honored to be quoted in this WIRED Article by Mary H.K. Choi: Overworked, Overwhelmed, Overscheduled? Work More

- Etsy: Gifts for Men

- The Human Body as a Subway Map (via Maria)

- How to Write the Perfect Email: The 9-Step Script for Emailing Busy People (via @Bufferapp)

- Free ebooks for Web designers and developers. (via loopinsight)

- A dock for the iPhone 5

- To generate some early buzz for next summer’s release of Monsters University — the sort-of prequel to the huge Pixar hit Monsters, Inc. — Disney has created a complete website for the fictional Monsters University

- Jay Parkinson’s Health company Sherpaa is offering complimentary service for founders in NY. (via Amrit)

Big Bird, you had a turbulent week! Same goes for PBS.

- Google Street View now features underwater maps. (via Amrit)

- 10 Peanuts Characters You’ve Probably Forgotten: One of the most bizarre characters in the Peanuts universe was “555 95472,” or “5” for short. Introduced in September 1963, 5 explained that his father was so upset about people being seen as “just a number,” he renamed the entire family as a series of digits.

- Cadbury won a High Court battle giving it exclusive rights to use Pantone 2685C. You gotta be kidding!? (via @adaptordie)

- H&FJ’s recommendations for books on typography.

- Pictalicious is a color palette generator. Upload an image and you’ll get suggestions on what colors to use.

- A heart clutch? Yes, please.

- 10 Videos about the Creative Process

- Netbot, a full-featured iPhone App.net client.

- Meet the 2012 MacArthur Fellows

- Here’s your chance to become a studiomates: Oak is hiring an intern.

- Tempted to order this so I can see what it’s like to be my son’s height. He’s 2.

- Caped Superman & Batman Onesie Pajamas For Grown-ups

- Design your new Twitter header – with a free PSD for pixel perfection!

- DIY’s CTO @thisandagain made a library to calculate the probability that a commenter is a troll. (via Zach)

- vote.good.is

- See how many fake followers you or your friends have on Twitter. (via hideh)

More at kidpresident.com

- My studiomate Raul found a poem at his son’s school.

- Contents May Have Shifted, by Erin Kissane

- Tim Cook’s Apology for Apple Maps

- Casetagram allows you to create your personalized iPhone case – created with your own Instagram pics. (via Andrea)

- Remembering Arnaud Mercier.

- My friends and studiomates of Oak are looking to hire a developer who loves design

- Did you ever have to convert a PDF into a Keynote document? Then you will love PDF to Keynote. It just saved me.

- How To Handle a Bully

- This biodegradable urn turns into a tree after you die.

- Switzerland is doing a good job with their commercials. The most recent one is all about how the Swiss will help you forget about time when you visit. Made me chuckle.

- Books as Data, by James Bridle

- Gotye – Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra

- The DUMBO Art Festival is happening this weekend.

- Typekit and Google teaming up for a new free font service.

- Valet is Josh Spear’s latest venture, a collection of hand-picked benefits and guidance for the discerning 21st-century traveler.

- Hey Brooklynites, consider supporting The Invisible Dog Kickstarter. Good people!

The cast of Mad Men ”performs” Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up”
(via explore)

- The sweetest call-out to fill a Community Manger position ever: Impress A Penguin

- 5 guys from New York documenting the city’s amazing pizza culture.

- Interesting list of ‘Internet Habits‘ by Wells Baum.

- 11 Really Terrible 19th-Century Beauty Tips (via)

- My friends over Little Durck Organics are trying to find a PR + Social Media Director #goodpeoplewithanawesomeproduct

- Typodarium is represents a daily dose of typography for the typeface obsessed.

- My six year old loves her DORO Lille Huset Dollhouse. Entirely made from recycled paper in the US and folds flat for easy storage. What’s not to love?

- Governors Island is hosting the 5th Annual Art Fair this September.

- I would love an Instacube for our Tattly office.

- Good Riddance Paypal: Elliot Jay Stocks eloquently explains why PayPal have all the power of a bank and yet none of the responsibility.

- How to make an Origami Business Card Holder.

- The 99U Tickets for 2013 are now on Sale. It’s a fantastic conference. I’ve attended the past three years and am impressed by how Team Behance keeps raising the bar.

Now that’s a surprising way to separate the yolk from an egg white. (via @sawyerh)

- Reddit launched reddit Donate. Chosen and embedded by subreddits, the donate button allows reddit communities to raise awareness and channel donations directly to like-minded 501(c)(3) nonprofits. It was created as a side-project from a handful of redditors at Dwolla, and in partnership with Stripe. Reddit Donate does not move, hold, or process funds. All that said, all they want you to do is: Do Good. Yes!

- This leather lanyard is beautiful.

- How to pronounce artists’ names. (via @doorsixteen)

- Shazam-style app shows who funded political TV ads. (via brainpicker)

- Did you watch Jonathan Harris’ thoughtful CreativeMornings talk?

- The Internet A Decade Later

- Superhappy about Freshbooks launching their iphone app this week.

- On Quora: What did you learn being a police officer about society? (via)

- I never wanted to live on a houseboat, until I saw this.

- Self-portraits from an artist under the influence of 48 different psychoactive drug combos. (via @mikeindustries)

- Last week at Alt Design Summit I had the pleasure to meet the two folks behind Sweet Paul Magazine. I got my hands one one their latest issue and am impressed how they put out such a high quality magazine with such a small team.

- Got some British Friends and a happy occasion? Get this!

- I dooooooon’t care. Made me laugh.

(via Those Who Make)

- For a moment of awe at human achievement: 3D-printed prosthetic arm changes 3-year-old girl’s life.

- A collection of NYC city online guides.

- Idler: A New Modular Typeface Family By Lamesville

- If you read one thing this weekend, let it be this: On Empathy and Apathy: Two Case Studies

- Love the fixer mentality behind Wikipedia Redefined. (via @tca_team)

- Yay for analog mail: Airmail Zipper Pouch.

- That’s one pretty wine rack.

- Do Lectures are happening September 20-23 in California. I wish I could go. There’s a few attendee tickets left. You should apply!

- I just received my Elevation Dock. It’s fantastic.

- Rob Walker: Mapping the “Collective Unconscious” of NYC

- Astroturf fingernails. Really.

- Rituals of Preparation.

- The folks over at The Wall Street Journal are looking to hire a UX Architect.

- Good Grammar is sexy.

(via organizedwonder)

- Brainpicker‘s new Literary Jukebox makes me all kinds of happy. It matches a song with a book quote.

- Did you know about Etsy’s Global Craft Party?

- What are you cooking this weekend?

- Cardiio is a magical app that lets you measure your heart rate with the iPhone’s front facing camera. (via Amrit)

- This inflatable bicycle helmet by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin is impressive.

- Social Impact -Think of it like Yelp for discovering socially conscious local businesses. (via Amrit)

- Faraday: The most good looking ultimate electric propelled utility bicycle

- If you’re wondering what Medium is all about, read this. (via @cameronmoll)

- Made Collection is the world’s first flash-sale website for US-made products. (not a fan of flash sites but love the fact that they focus on US Made products)

- MotherKnows Creates iPhone-Accessible Health Records For Your Children

- Fast Company posted a video where I talk about my 8 Personal Rules for Success. (Video is from the 2012 Shopify Build A Business Competition)

- I need to remember to Focus.

Wondering what that above video is all about? It shows what English sounds like to foreigners

- Kansas City has hands down the coolest looking Library Parking Garage. (thank you Alexandra)

- Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think .(via @neilw)

- Faces: 105 of Cinema’s Most Beautiful Close-Ups

- Your kid should see this: Massive Animal Kites!

- A 1933 “booklovers map of America showing certain landmarks of literary geography”. What a find!

- 10 Email Extras You Should Be Using for Increased Productivity

- My friends at Area 17 are looking to hire an Interface Developer

- This is hilarious: What if every Olympic sport was photographed like beach volleyball? (via kottke)

- “If there was Swimming on Mars, the low temperature & low air pressure would force the pool to simultaneously freeze & boil.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

In this Build talk, Jason Santa Maria teaches us to look at typefaces with a discerning eye, different approaches to typographic planning, how typography impacts the act of reading, and how to choose and combine appropriate typefaces from an aesthetic and technical point of view.

- CheatSheet shows you all the keyboard shortcuts of your currently active application.

- Interesting read: 7 Habits of Web-Savvy Entrepreneurs.

- Yikes: Constantly Online? Mental Problems Await (thank you @popchair)

- Strawfoot, handmade Tote Bags, brought to you by GNTLMN.

- The first 20 employees at Google and what they’re doing now. Interesting. (via @collabfund)

- Picplum, my favorite photo printing sharing service just got better. You can now easily choose between multiple print sizes and add a personal note. Score!

- Don’t be bitter, be better!

- Emily is now taking pre-sale orders for the Brooklyn Quilt! Gaaah!

- The Sparrow Problem – the gold rush is over.

- Like to obsess over perfectly folding your laundry? The Flip Fold is for you!

- The folks at Warby Parker are looking to hire a Front-End Web Developer. I love that company.

- Yum. This Peach Ricotta Tart looks delicious.

- Flashback central: I totally remember my mom having one of these, in bright orange. A laundry basket with folding legs. Brilliant, right?

- The best public pools and swimming holes in the world

- Rich Kids of Instagram. They have more money than you and this is what they do.

- I admit, I am impressed by Urban Outfitter’s Home Catalog, photographed by The Selby

- An old-school dustpan after my own heart.

- Cool: Vimeo is hiring a Web Designer.

- I think I’ll adopt this little guy for our studio couch.

- A nice looking Teak desk for kids.

- Baby Countdown Wheel Card

- I am sure you always wanted to decorate your Converse sneakers with lettuce. Right? (Really? Who buys this stuff?)

- A dining table that fits into a mailable envelope.

- Transferware – a product of mid 18th century England

- Rooster Pancake Mold.

- How to get employees thinking like entrepreneurs

- Remember this: It’s easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back

- Turn your iPhone into a Holga with this.

- Your Logo is not Hardcore

(via ahbon)

- The iconic Holstee Manifesto is now available in black

- This commercial for NEST made me smile.

- Love these Paper Packs by Three Potato Four, filled with vintage ephemera finds.

- Giant Higgs Boson Mural by artist Josef Kristofoletti

- Lovely old-school looking Roll Up Travel Charger

- Oh, wow, I always wondered about Rabbit Circulation

- My friend John is the king of packing light. He swears by OneBag.com.

- Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

- Only in New York: A Backyard Timeshare.

- Good Eggs is looking to hire a UX Designer (what a cool company name! And they have a chicken on their homepage)

- The BLDG BLOG folks wrote a fascinating post on of John McPhee’s book , which is a look at the Swiss military and its elaborately engineered landscape defenses.

- Parents, read this. (Thank you Keren)

- To celebrate our 1 year Tattly birthday everything’s 50% off until end of day sunday. (Our first sale ever!) Just use the discount code “1YEAROLD” during check out.

- Do you Live in a City? (via explore)

- Hipsters don’t know what the Higgs boson is

- The 10 Top Read Books in the World

- How a Credit Card is Made

- BBQ Tattly Set anyone?

- Intruiging: Video of a 12 year old, having a conversation with himself as a 32 year old. (via @nickbilton)

- The Top 100 WordPress Plugins Ordered By Downloads

- Great Post by Marco Arment about The camera you have with you

- Swiss Bunkers (Thank you Maria)

- What’s new in iOS6 (via @emilychang)

- Ten Tips for Hiking with Kids

- A Floating Mug. Cool.

- Most charming Bookends.

- Our friends set up this giant rubber swimming pool in their backyard. The kids love it. (I admit, I would have never bought it.)

- The blind can take perfect photos with their iPhones, guided by the built-in Camera app.

- … when you activate your supporters, you need a clear path to victory, not a wild goose chase.

Bette Davis talks about kissing scenes

- Veerle teaches us how to create patterns in Illustrator CS6

- What to do when lost in the woods

- Old-School Looking Toothpaste Tube Wringer

- The Perfect Blog Post

- DIY Wall-Mounted Clothes Drying Rack

- I love Zach Klein’s Cabin Porn Blog.

- The Manual, Issue #3 is out!

- Pixar Story Rules. (via Jason)

- Why you should spiral cut your wiener (via Chris)

- Just a two more days left to purchase a Tattly Subscription

- Mini Ice Cream Sandwich Press. YES!

- Instead is a micro-donation app for non-profits that encourages people to live within or below their means in order to give to the charity of their choice.

- Change.org is looking to hire a Product/Interaction Designer

- Jonah Lehrer: Cities Are the Knowledge Engines of the 21st Century

- Things Ciara’s Three Year Old Says

- Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works (via valerie casey)

- Birds with Arms

I’ve had the pleasure to meet Robert Chapman, CEO of Barry-Wehmiller Companies, Inc., a $1.5 billion global manufacturer of capital equipment and provider of engineering consulting. He runs his company with the belief that *everyone* counts and that everyone deserves to be heard. Robert is a truly inspiring person, aiming to change how companies are run.

- 3D Glasses Pillow: Geek Chic Home Decor

- Man fights Goose with Lightsaber.

- A Mac app that automatically changes your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of where you are, right now. Cool. (via @papermuse)

- James Victore is organizing a one day symposium on creativity around “Your work is a gift.” Lovely notion.

- My friend Jennifer Ward does some serious magic with kids interiors. Know anyone that needs a kids room/basement or kids related business designed, send them Minor Details’ way!

- Becoming a better entrepreneur

- Using projected Skype video to make long-distance family portraits

- Brydge turns your iPad into a Laptop

- Live in a MUJI house for 2 years. For free.

- Cookie Earrings. Yup.

- Method, in San Francisco, is looking to hire a Lead IXD

- Yikes.

- Moleskine Reporter Bag.

- What is art? A collection of favorite definitions, from antiquity to today.

- Are you a Brooklyn based artist? You should consider signing up for GO, a community curated open studio project.

- 21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity (via nikkirap)

- Cut-out-and keep dolls of cool film and TV characters

Thomas Roebers’ Rhythm “FOLI” There Is No movement Without Rhythm (via the KidShouldSheeThis)

- Advice To Writers by Steven Pinker (via @bobulate)

- The Cloud House (Thank you Gareth)

- I don’t know about you but I have always wanted a Lemon Fruit Garland.

- The New York Times is looking to hire an Information Architect

- Thrilled beyond belief about this wonderful CreativeMornings write-up in WIRED by Alissa Walker. And this one in The Atlantic by Steven Heller.

- These gradient tights are stunning.

- Finally, a crafty toy geared towards boys: Build-It Rocket Kit

- My mom sent me this video of the traditional Appenzeller Alpaufzug, where the Swiss farmers walk their cows up to the mountains for the summer, so the land can rest down in the valley. The farmers wear their traditional outfits and even the cows get wear their special bells. Beautiful.

- Parents! This Air Head Balloon Kit is awesome.

- Fixie Don’t Care. Made me laugh.

- This Adverting Life. (Thank you James)

- 10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter

- Dissapointed with Prometheus? Read this. (But don’t read it if you haven’t seen it yet. Spoiler Alert) (via @whale)

- This Ring Holder made me smile.

- Big Sleeping Grizzly Bear Bean Bag. Imagine a whole bunch of these in a big giant playroom.

- Babies eating lemon. Priceless. (Thank you Bekka)

- Don’t compare your work to the competition but to an unattainable, magical unicorn.

Oh, the fun that can be had with a little one and a built in iSight Camera. Proven by my reader Aida Onandia, in Barcelona.

- Wooden Light Bulb (via Maria)

- The Insides of a CT Scanner

- Soon you’ll be able to buy your TV at IKEA. Cool. (thanks Rusty)

- A baby pygmy hippopotamus at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo in Australia, taking her first swim.

- Method in SF is looking to hire an Interaction Designer

- Live in NYC? Make sure not to miss “Timelessness,” a tiny, tantalizing exhibition of works by the designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli. (via @soulellis)

- My Cape is in the Wash

- Chicken Footstools

- This bath mat made me chuckle.

- Cool: Design Milk + Milk Crate launched a new art+design subscription.

- Quotebook app syncs quotes between the iPhone and iPad using iCloud.

- Love this adorable pillow called Autobus-si

- Tattly Subscription this month only!