Some things to remember - links

Links to interesting stuff:

The Merchants of Cool
A PBS Documentary about the creators & marketers of popular culture for teenagers.

Hide Excel data with zero values
Works with charts too

Telefónica-Movistar

Llamando a servicio a cliente:
"Necesita tener saldo para poder ponerle saldo".

Life is like a pencil

Sometimes what you do is smudgy, other times if you sharpen it you see what you do more clearly, other times it's smudgy, like when you have a blunt tip. Other times you use it for other stuff not related to what you do or what you love, and it starts to blunt, wearing out.
So, as Steve Jobs says "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work".

The Grid System.org

About

Made popular by the International Typographic Style movement and pioneered by legends like Josef Müller-Brockmann and Wim Crouwel, the grid is the foundation of any solid design. The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids.

http://thegridsystem.org/

Almost done

Maybe I'll make the surrounding background black.
Almost done :D

Formica

On a particular moment that I was not behind the computer at work, I noticed that the edges of the formica table I've used for almost two months, has this barely visible extra strip were the vertical and horizontal edges meet. It is barely visible unless you put your face close to the table, which I did.
It has a slightly lighter color than the other parts of the table, apparently it seems to make the table look old when it finally starts to decay by the constant use of the edge, for example by resting the hands there on a daily basis.
Interesting.

It's a sad day...

Pushing Daisies has been cancelled after only two seasons...

Things that call my attention

Car versus Man.

The car can only use gas to run, if you put something else in it, it won't work.
On the other hand the man is a extraordinarie machine. It can extract energy from thousands of sources.
I heard that people stranded on an island survived the 3 or 4 weeks prior to their rescue solely by eating the coconut flesh and drinking its water.
A neighbor of my mom in her home town managed to live almost 100 years, and his diet was mostly composed of the most basic foods, like corn tortillas and beans.
It can also create energy from sodas, chips, fried food, and almost anything that you throw at it. Of course, with no so pleasant secondary effects.

Awesome design

Amazing and multi-functional, love the way it changes and how the handles seem to disappear.

The power of 100 wikipedias

Interesting article about the shifting of people preferences. Out goes the TV, in goes internet, and the power of all this mass of people not just consuming, but creating content, worth a read.