in Wired
Microraptor: A 4-Winged, Fish-Eating Dinosaur
Fossilized guts reveal that Microraptor -- a four-winged flying dinosaur -- had a taste for fish.
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Netflix to Charge $12 to Make Sharing Your Password a Better Experience
In today?s first-quarter earnings letter, Netflix announced a $12-a-month plan that doubles the current limit of two simultaneous video streams to four simultaneous feeds plan.
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Lunch Bag Gone Art Work
David Laferriere has been drawing illustrations on his kid’s sandwich bags since 2008. While he won’t win the go-green award, he sure deserves the creative dad of the year award.
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Old School Ruler Growth Chart
I absolutely love this old-school ruler growth chart by Little River Designs.
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OBlog: Awful Library Books
Awful Library Books is a collection of amusing and/or questionable library holdings found in real libraries and curated by librarians Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner.![](http://</p>
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<h1><a style="line-height:13px;font-size:11px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Swissmiss/~3/grEiZ1iL_zE/calendar-stamp.html">Calendar Stamp</a></h1>
<p>I wouldn’t mind owning one of these customizable calendar stamps by Mizushima. (via bekka)</p>
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<h1><a style="line-height:13px;font-size:11px;" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/35113/f/649171/s/2b047b01/l/0Loblog0Bdesignobserver0N0Cpost0Ceditorial0Edesign0Esummer0Eportugal0C378390C/story01.htm">OBlog: Editorial Design. Summer. Portugal.</a></h1>
<p>Taught by leading design professionals and educators from Europe and the US, the Porto Design Summer School Editorial Course is a unique opportunity to study graphic design within the setting of one o</p>
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<h1><a style="line-height:13px;font-size:11px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmashingMagazine/~3/Qx5zTr0mBHQ/">Is Photoshop Really Dead?: Repurposing Photoshop For The Web</a></h1>
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<h1><a style="line-height:13px;font-size:11px;" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Swissmiss/~3/3mNQeHjWAwY/%e2%99%a5-oflow.html">♥ / Oflow</a></h1>
<p>A big thank you to Oflow for sponsoring this week’s RSS Feed. Re-energize your work, find a solution for any situation, and get back to doing what you do best with Oflow on your iPhone or iPad.</p>
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<h1><a style="line-height:13px;font-size:11px;" href="http://boagworld.com/dev/which-content-management-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=which-content-management-system">How to decide which content management system is best</a></h1>
<p>When trying to decide which content management system is best, developers often think about how easy the content management system is to integrate before ever considering how easy it is to use.</p>
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<h1><a style="line-height:13px;font-size:11px;" href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/hoawRzkCD0k/story01.htm">Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa</a></h1>
<p>Earlier this month, an article raised the question of who owns the giant data center being built in Altoona, Iowa.</p>
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<h1><a style="line-height:13px;font-size:11px;" href="http://acejet170.typepad.com/foundthings/2013/04/hogarth-son-of-hogarth.html">Hogarth. Son of Hogarth.</a></h1>
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Ecology of Colour by Studio Weave
in Spiekerblog (en) Not sure whether I agree with all the facts or the figures in this chart, but it still makes interesting reading: Source: static.colourlovers.com via FontShop on Pinterest
The state of typography
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Friday Link Pack
- Two Promising Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years From Earth. - How wonderful is this 1940s Coney Island amusement park ride car?
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Download Gmail Message App
Merlin Mann built an email app that only lets you *send* email, not read them. It directs you straight to Gmail’s “Compose Message” window in a new tab of your default browser.
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The YogoMat
The YogoMat is an eco-friendly yoga mat that folds and secures to fit in bags and purses and is easy to clean. Best of all, it’s 100% recyclable.
in You the Designer
20 Awesome Free Brush Fonts
Nothing can surpass the artistic quality of hand made works.
in Boagworld
The next generation of website animation?
Have you noticed the cool website animation effects that Apple use? Well, now there is an app that puts that kind of coolness within the reach of us mere mortals.
in Slashdot
FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos
An anonymous reader writes "The FBI has released images of what they say are two suspects with backpacks and ball caps.
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Alexander Chen, Bach and the New York Subway
I think it must have been during Thursday morning that someone tweeted a link to an Alexander Chen Google Glass video experiment. I'm afraid I can't remember who it was.
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How To Work With Creative People
How To Work With Creative People is a growing archive of advice and thoughts on how to best work with creative people. A wonderful project by Amrit Richmond.
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Ride The City
Ride the City helps you find safe bike routes in cities. At this point their service includes various US, French, Spanish, Australian and Canadian cities.
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Throw & Grow Confetti
Throw & Grow is eco-friendly confetti that grows into wildflowers. Woah!
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Flow, The Secret To Happiness
In this TED talk Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in act
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Twitter Music
Twitter finally launched its much-anticipated Music App. It lets you see what music is trending, emerging and find new music from artists you follow. Smart.
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Explosion of Creativity
“The internet has resulted in the biggest explosion of creativity in history.” — Andy Baio Watch Andy’s CreativeMornings talk.
in Boagworld
Plagiarism, age and competition
On our first episode of season 6 we cover, what to do about stolen content, can old people work in web design and more besides.
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Manor House Stables by AR Design Studio
in Design Observer: Main Posts Sometimes images through a fog tell the clearest story. in Dezeen in Design Observer: Main Posts The UK government’s digital services platform, gov.uk, has won the Design of the Year award.
OBlog: Flickr Collection of the Week: Blurry Fuzzy World
Dutch city launches catalogue of architect-designed homes
John Thackara: Big, Hairy, and Agile: Winner of the Digital Design of the Year Award
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String Lights by Michael Anastassiades for Flos
in Dezeen in Dezeen in Dezeen in Dezeen in Dezeen in magCulture If you listened to last week’s edition of The Stack on Monocle24 you’ll have heard me mention two very different football magazines: the big, glossy Howler from the US and the smaller newsprint Fi
Sheffield Classic by Daniel Wellington at Dezeen Watch Store
Neut by Apollo Architects & Associates
Clerkenwell Design Week 2013 exhibitors announced
"Print on demand has completely changed the way we think about books"
Mas d’Enric Penitentiary by AiB and Estudi PSP Arquitectura
Football magazines on The Stack
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Tea with Georg by Scholten & Baijings for Georg Jensen
in Dezeen in swissmiss “Too often a sense of loyalty depends on admiration, and if we can’t admire, it is difficult to be loyal.” - Aimee Buchanan
Town Hall Midden-Delfland by Inbo
Loyalty
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Open Switzerland
I stumbled upon Open Switzerland, a project that examines just how open Switzerland is to the outside world. Is it open or does it remain the walled fortress of Europe?
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Hope
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” - Dalai Lama
in You the Designer
The Limitless World of Hong Yi: Her Inner Vision & Ultimate Expression
“You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you think is right.” ~ Aung San Suu Kyi Have you ever thought that …
in Slashdot kkleiner writes "The Bank of Tokyo has invested $2 billion into Cape Wind, the 130-turbine wind farm that is inching closer to becoming a reality.U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks
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Red Hat Launching Its Own Community Distro of OpenStack
darthcamaro writes "Red Hat still doesn't have a fully supported commercial version of OpenStack in the market yet (coming this summer) as it lags behind Ubuntu and SUSE.
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Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting
hypnosec writes "Results of recent benchmark tests reveal that Ouya is not up to the mark and there are over 70 other ARM devices that perform better than the gaming console.
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The Crankerator
The Crankerator lets you charge you iPod/iPhone/iPad on the go, when you’re far away from any outlets.
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