The Punch award is an internal New York Times award for journalism. This is the first (but, I’m sure, not the last) time the journalism award has been won by a software developer (Alan Taylor). This sounds like a tipping point to me, or at the very least a data point that points to a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Things What Look Good'
Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” Wins Punch Award
April 26th, 2009 · No Comments · News, Things What Look Good
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Star Trek Remastered “The Cage” Premieres in May
April 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · TV, Things What Look Good
This the original Shatner-free pilot for Star Trek. Most Trek aficionados know this in its hacked-up two-parter form as “The Menagerie.” Here’s the trailer:
Looking forward to seeing this as a warm-up to the new Star Trek movie coming out next month (we’ve already purchased our tickets for the first showing).
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Industrial Magnetic Letters are Cool.
January 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Things What Look Good
I will not say which web search led me to this industrial signage site which sells magnetic letters in bulk, but suffice it to say that they are super cool and I am starting to think of interesting ways to commit terrifying yet probably harmless art projects with them.
You can buy any letter or number [...]
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Doing Some Xmas Shopping
December 7th, 2006 · No Comments · Things What Look Good
I’m assuming that this shirt is going to be a good choice for a toddler who lives in Manhattan. Toddlers are all about blimps and giant gorillas that attack buildings.
Empire State Big Monkey
by
jeffreymcmanus
Get this custom t-shirt at Zazzle
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Lifehacker book now available for preorder
October 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Things What Look Good
Hooray! The Lifehacker book is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!
Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day
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Radario: Popular Product Mashups
October 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · Things What Look Good, Web/Tech
From the wicked genius minds of my pals Rob and Chuck comes Radario, a product popularity mashup site that pulls in data from lots of different product review sites to create top 10 lists of products. Today they’re doing digital cameras, music players, songs, and movies, so if you’re in the market for any of [...]
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Joey & Mattie at Burning Man
September 5th, 2006 · No Comments · Things What Look Good
Joey & Mattie by Jacob Davies.
Our pals are returning from Burning Man with their photos. Those trousers are otherworldly, Joey.
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Empire State Building, Kong, Blimp, Rain Falling Up
August 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Things What Look Good
kong by jeffreymcmanus.
This plaque is mounted on the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Admire its ultimate and absolute coolitude.
Update: I enjoyed this so much I made a line tracing of it and turned the tracing into a T-shirt.
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In-browser Tetris
May 18th, 2006 · Comments Off · Things What Look Good, Web/Tech, Yahoo
This is so awesome, a Tetris game using dynamic HTML that runs in the browser.
He used the Yahoo! User Interface Library in this as well.
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