#Joiito on irc.freenode.net is a pretty close-knit community, and as with any group of people who spend a great deal of time with each other, much of that time is spent joking around.
This evening, Nick Douglas introduced us all to The Vagina Game, in which one replaces words in film titles with the word [...]
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#Joiito and The Vagina Game
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Pearls Before Breakfast
What happens when a world-class violinist sets up in a Washington D.C. subway station? Not much.
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Paula Scher Blog Map
Follwing the pickup of the Kathy Sierra saga in the mainstream media, rockstar graphic designer and Pentagram New York principal Paula Scher penned a visual Op-Ed piece for the New York Times showing the progression of discussion which follows a controversial blog post.
Larger version here.
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Airbag Blog Advisory System
In these troubled times, it’s important for internet users to have an easy way to determine whether the content on a given site is age/sensibility appropriate. In the past, one would be forced to actually read things to determine their content, but no longer will unsuspecting pussies be placed in this vulnerable position. Introducing the [...]
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Nickelback-track
In September of 2001, popular rock act Nickelback released “How You Remind Me,” which quickly climbed the Billboard charts to the #1 position, staying there for over four weeks.
Two years later, in August 2003, the band released “Someday,” which although not as successful as their first hit, still reached a respectable #7 on the [...]
Kathy Sierra Situation Commentary
I, like many others in this community of bloggers, feel compelled to comment on the recent situation involving blogger, author, and customer advocate Kathy Sierra.
I’m not going to spend much time addressing the “facts” or specifics of the situation– that has been done ad-nauseum by many far better versed in the issue than myself. From [...]
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Stranger Than InfoVis
I had the chance last night to see the new Will Ferrell flick, Stranger Than Fiction. In the film, Ferrell plays Harold Crick, a strictly regimented IRS agent living in Chicago whose life is turned upside-down when he discovers that every event in his life is decided by the pen of an omnipotent author.
To illustrate [...]
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Keeping Score
Produced by the San Francisco Symphony, Keeping Score is a project designed to, show that classical music can speak to everyone and instill a lifelong love of music through the use of pervasive media.
Part of the Keeping Score initiative are interactive flash websites showcasing selected classical masterpieces, and the history and music theory behind them. [...]
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UCLA Student Repeatedly Tasered for Faliure to Produce ID
Breaking news today as University of California, Los Angeles student newspaper The Daily Bruin is reporting that an unidentified student was repeatedly tasered by UCPD officers last night in the schools Powell library when he failed to produce the proper identification during a random ID sweep. According to report, when the student failed to produce [...]
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Chloroflot 2006 Design Salary Survey
Chloroflot.com has just published it’s 2006 Design Salary Survey, in which they asked different types of designers all over the world how much they rake in every year. To my surprise, Hong Kong towers over the rest of the world in times of the kind of living the average designer makes, a whopping $93,607 salary. [...]