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Life Assessment Quiz

Via , as days pass by, Mark Pilgrim suggests everyone over the age of 25 should try the Clean Sweep Program. As a list junkie it's probably just the thing I need to get my life in order. Though it is open to debate whether or not some of the things listed here are actually indicative of a life well lived.

Designer by Day, Catwoman by Night

Designer by Day, Catwoman by Night, from Design Observer, laments the potrayal of graphic designers in the upcoming film Catwoman, where Halle Berry plays the title Jekyll-and-Hyde role, whose character is split between a shy, retiring graphic designer and an untamed, feline superhero,

It looks like Hollywood has yet again dramatized a profession that in truth, is better characterized by toiling into the wee hours. (I, for one, have never known a journalist who ended his reporting day at 5pm any more than I know any graphic designers who are nine-to-fivers.) Does "graphic designer" as a character type suggest a kind of banal anonymity, a chameleonlike identity? Or is it just an amorphous character type: in other words, just as "graphic designer" may be the antidote to superhero, is it also the opposite of villain?

The Cat With Hands

Creepy...The Cat with Hands

[Link courtesy What Do I Know - Enjoying]

Incredible sidewalk chalk drawings

Check out these very cool sidewalk chalk drawings.

[Link courtesy sidesh0w.com: sideblog]

John Mayer at Macworld Expo

Check out this video of John Mayer helping Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrate Apple's new GarageBand music application. The boy has some skills!...oh and GarageBand looks pretty cool too, it's basically a DIY music studio.

[Link courtesy MacMinute]

We Didn't Start The Fire

Courtesy Meryl, Lockergnome Tech News Watch, Hey, kids of the '80s and Billy Joel fans, here's a great Flash movie of We Didn't Start The Fire. I love this song!

Fun with death rays

Brotronic Weapons introduces the new Electrolux Death Ray. Get yours this christmas!

[Link courtesy sidesh0w.com: sideblog]

ASCII movies

More ASCII movies, check it out.
[Link courtesy Lockergnome Tech News Watch]

The Picture of Everything!

Check out The Picture of Everything!

[Link courtesy Chris Papasadero via KALIBER10000]

Create a Snowman

Via this post from forty.something, kill some time and make your own snowman at naked-i.com :: Create a Snowman - Winter 2003. Check out the gallery too.