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Need a job, but you’re not up for the hassle of looking through the papers? Well then, you could always set up a nice site and have people suggest the best jobs around. Throw in a free iPod nano and you’re set. Just like Belgium-based Tijs Vrolix did. Quite an innovative way of getting the attention of agencies.

In this simple 84-step tutorial, CSS-Master Matthew Inman of Drivl shows us the fine art of creating square corners with CSS. A wonderful alternative to all those rounded corner tutorials. Join him on “An epic journey of compassion and liberty that embodies the semantic markup movement in modern web design in an unprecedented paradigm shift to right angled HTML elements.”

Give some graffiti artists a laser and see what they do with it? Tag buildings, of course! The Graffiti Research Lab is, in its own words, “dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication”. And they’re coming up with some really cool stuff, such as L.A.S.E.R. Tag, LED Throwies (a must-see) and Drive-In GIF Theater.

Taylor Lane merges typography with pin-up art in his calender series “Studio Pin-Ups“, and takes home an Epica Award while he’s at it. Every month, a new young lady is presented with a selected font and named accordingly, e.g. Miss Bodoni, Miss Gill, Miss Optima, etc. Oh, and depending on your employer, this might or might not be quite safe for work.

Looking for a game to get your brain juices flowing and practice color mixing? Then Twinoo could be just the right thing for you. This high paced game is simple to play but requires quick thinking and a little understanding of the color wheel. Good fun for a little battle of the two brain hemispheres, but don’t play it too long or you’ll probably go nuts. Go nuts!

Please excuse the lack of updates the last days, I’ve been having problems with my ISP, had no net connection for the last 4 days. To add some icing to the cake of lacking updates, I’m going to get off-topic shortly.

You know, it’s funny. Whenever the net goes down, you realize how dependent of the damn thing you’ve really become. All kinds of stuff you want to look up but just can’t. (Hell, even when I’m reading a book, I find things so interesting I want to look them up on Wikipedia.)
No emails, no IM, no wasting time on YouTube, no checking train timetables, no blogs, nothing.

Then you start to realize, “Hey, this is great”… there are another thousand things you could be doing instead in the “real world”, that you haven’t done in ages. So you do that to kill time, and it’s great. Then you make a vow to unplug your net connection for at least a week when it’s back and see what else you can get done. But I never really do that. I get right back on the net, and the next time it’s down, the whole cycle starts over again. But as bad as it sounds, I do have a pleasant social life, and it’s not the Web 2.0 kind. So, does any of this sound familiar?

Short, fast-paced 2-minute game with a quick description:

You see these logos almost every day, right? - Let’s see how well you remember them.

What else could I add? Try it out and let me know how you scored. :)

I hate it when websites automatically start playing music. Ever opened lots of search results in Firefox tabs, only to start a quest for that one tab that is now blurting elevator music right through the song you were just enjoying? Unfortunately, sometimes clients think it’s a great idea. “We’re oh so flippy now!” So, how are you going to ward off this incarnation of evil? Seomoz.org has the answers.

Got some time to waste? Head on over to the Tiny Icon Factory and add your own little creations to the ordered chaos. Simply draw your own 13×13 icon and hit save. Created by Brent and Luis at the MIT Media Lab. (Thanks, Frederik)

Design theft is something every designer comes across at some point in his career. Some people just can’t keep their fingers off other peoples’ work and claim it theirs. Once discovered, these individuals fire off a certain set of arguments that may seem hard to counter at first. Not all hope is lost, however, as James Bennett of The B-List has managed to classify the characteristics of design thief arguments into three species: Turpem tuus, Auferet omnes and Situs in publica, along with their respective antidotes. My work has been ripped numerous times before, so I find this particulary funny. Read it all here.