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Sunday, March 14, 2010

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HORSE/WATER

via FFFFOUND! / EVERYONE by rusdesign on 3/10/10

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Friday, February 19, 2010

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Philco PC by SchultzeWORKS

via Laughing Squid by Scott Beale on 1/20/10

Philco PC, beautiful retro industrial design by Dave Schultze of SchultzeWORKS.

The design of the "Philco PC" was inspired by the 1954 design classic Philco Predicta, as well as an eclectic mixture of modern minimalism, the steampunk movement, and antiques. As lead designer Dave Schultze explains, "The result is a design aesthetic that blends multiple elements of the familiar, but with some surprisingly fresh styling that just so happens to house a state-of-the-art Windows 7 PC."

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Infographic: buying DVDs vs pirating them

via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 2/18/10

This pithy and funny chart does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of "business model" (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same disc online. I rip all my kid's DVDs (not least because she has a tendency to scratch them to hell), and the difference between firing up a movie on a laptop and it just starting versus trying to explain to a toddler why Daddy has to spend five minutes pressing next-next-next menu-menu-menu is enormous. I think it all comes down to the stuff in the DVD-CCA spec that allows DVD creators to flag sequences as unskippable: that's such an attractive nuisance, it's bound to attract every hard-sell marketer and power-tripping fool in any media company, who will eventually colonize it with so much crapola that it comes just short of destroying the possibility that anyone will voluntarily pay for the product. (Be sure to click below for the whole thing)
If you are a pirate, this is what you get (via Making Light)

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