Richard’s Notes

Tom Toles has a great editorial cartoon in the Washington Post today: Throwing the kitchen sink.

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Matt Stuart shows a keen eye and a great sense of humor in his street photography.
In his notes we see that he uses a small Leica camera and what looks like a 28mm or 50mm lens. Eveyrthing is shot with relatively deep focus, simple and clean.
Blake Andrews has a good interview with him here: Matt […]

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Dave Barry: A journey into my colon — and yours
OK. You turned 50. You know you’re supposed to get a colonoscopy. But you haven’t. Here are your reasons:
1. You’ve been busy.
2. You don’t have a history of cancer in your family.
3. You haven’t noticed any problems.
4. You don’t want a doctor to stick a tube […]

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Priceless!
[via Jon Moss]

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New York Times Profile of Cartoonist Al Jaffee
I grew up with Al Jaffee’s “fold-ins” in Mad Magazine. For the most part they were corny, even to me as a kid but I still folded almost every one just to see the punchline.
If you don’t know what a fold-in is, check out the Times’ interactive feature: […]

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I might have to get me a copy of Thriving Office, people call and all they hear is crickets in the background.
Love the sample. Might have to try this out, just for fun.
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Look at all the other “first dance” videos up there… my word, must be a trend. This one’s the best, great find Jon.
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Lighthearted fun from the Muppets.

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I find it amazing that something this silly makes belly laugh. Maybe part of it is the disconnect of watching Japanese TV. Caitlin, let me here your thoughts on this.
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Hilarious.
[via Steve Korn]

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The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show was my favorite cartoon shows, period. Nothing came close to the imagination of Jay Ward and it wasn’t just one cartoon, it had segments like a variety show: Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fractured Fairy Tails, Aesop & Son, Borris and Natasha, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody’s Improbable History, Mr. Know-It-All, and more.
This […]

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Fantastic. I never would have thought this would have worked, in many ways it works better than the original of them standing there.
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The iPhone multi-touch screen, zooming a la Eames’ Powers of Ten can get you to… God. Fantasic parody ad.
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Make My Logo Bigger Cream
Incredible, all that good stuff for three easy payments of $29.99.
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Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
Great scrolling “crawler” at bottom. Gad, these guys are good.
[via Signal vs. Noise]

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Only in Japan. I don’t know why, and I’m embarassed to say it, but this made me laugh uncontrollably and if I’d been drinking milk it would have sprayed out of my nose.
It could be the “play by play” in Japanese which I don’t understand, or the very idea that someone thought this up and […]

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Behind the cursor is a look at what’s actually propelling your Macintosh cursor around your screen as you move your mouse.
[via Dale Allyn]

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Read two great new words in Salon letters today: “Dumbocrats” and “Repuglicans.” Perfect.

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This is fantastic. I have to say that Graham handled himself amazingly well and Allen didn’t get to do much of what he hoped to.
(Source Your Daily Awesome.)

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Killer eBoy isomorphic animation: How to get ahead in science.
Watch it many times for the transitions between scenes, they’re spectacular.

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