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This movie about design, art, counter culture and outsiders of all sorts will be released in the spring of 2008. I hope it is comes to Houston.
Link to the trailer. (from Compuer Love)
-Dave

Forbes has posted a new batch of printable celebrity Halloween masks for this year.  Apparently they’ve done this in the past and I have been missing out on some good clean fun.  Enjoy.
Link (via Neat-O-Rama)

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
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Now playing: Interpol - Wrecking Ball
via FoxyTunes

Link to the video.
-Dave

I’m headed to BarCamp Houston tomorrow.  I hope to hang with my fellow tech-heads and learn a thing or two.
I’m mostly interested in the design & usability sessions, but I’m also interested in the sessions about presenting content and team building.  It’s been tough to recruit good web designers in this town, so maybe they [...]

I have nothing of real value to add to the unbelievable distress that this is event is causing so many people other than a sad-but-true quote from Woody Allen:
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Anna Nicole Smith’s autopsy report was released to the media today.  I couldn’t help but snicker after reading the following line:
The anus is unremarkable.
I hope that when I die my anus is not a topic of interest to the news media.  And if my anus is a topic of interest, I hope it’s absolutely remarkable.
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Nowhere in advertising is the gap between natural beauty and manufactured perfection more apparent than on subway posters. As we wait for transportation, we are unwillingly assaulted by larger-than-life representations of supposedly beautiful salespeople. The large scale of these ads and their extremely close proximity to the viewer offer up more than perceived intimacy, however… [...]