Advice column

Keep making crap until it's not crap anymore.

City section

• Alexander Hamilton's home achieves a top speed of 0.4 miles an hour.
• There are eight million cities in this story.
• Curating the city on the left coast.
• There are 600 million adolescent girls living in poverty in the developing world. Change starts with a girl. Direct link to Global giving.
• Blast those fries.

Pepper Pots

I've been taking ceramics at the 92nd Street Y this year. Here are four of my latest, the average height of which is around 3 inches (they have to fit in my tiny apartment). This session, we're working with porcelain, which feels delicious. (The photos were taken with my laptop, so the images aren't superb.)

Iron Men

• The 25th Hour of Florent Morellet. I went on my birthday to say goodbye.
• How the Web Was Won and where it got us?
• Ever want to drop $150K on a book? Now you can.
• His passion is moving heavy objects.
• Wii're fit thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto.

Another view

The smiling faces make some of these brilliant Lego recreations of famous photographs somewhat creepy.

More photography

• Final salute. A year with the Marines stationed at Aurora, Colorado's Buckley Air Force Base called upon to notify families of their son's deaths in Iraq.
• Maki Kawakita on video. More of her work here. Her prints are really amazing.
• Celebrating Women in Photography.
• I really love Elinor's work. Again, the scans don't do the prints justice.
• Not photography, but related in other ways, a patchwork quilt.
• A curated collection of photographs found on the web: I lie down (on the road).
• Dutch masters finger photographed. (tx ben)

Time's arrow

In other news

• Radiohead Nude remix
• What do the designers at Trollback + Company think about before they fall asleep?
• Where the real flavor is.
• Robert Frank's The Americans re-released just in time for my birthday. (It's beautiful. I got mine at the Strand).
• Verve photo. A new breed of documentary photographers. I hope one day to be able to count the people featured here among my peers. It gives me something to aspire to.
• Noodle therapy.
• Steinski gets a career retrospective (I hope my cousin wins a Grammy for the liner notes).
• Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral train, rediscovered at Danziger Projects.
• In heavy rotation: Crystal Castles.

Flash Frogger

Play the original "Why did the frog cross the road" game.

Texas bird eye views

Neat illustrations of Texas towns.

The Aural Times

Don't have the time to read the news? Don't feel like listening to it read? How about having it sung to you?

Calvin and Hobbes searchable database

For some reason, they never mention my name. You can search for yours (and other words) here.

101 Free Games

This site offers their take on the 101 best free games on the web.

World press photo winners

Have been announced.

Czech book covers of the 1920's and 1930's

Courtesy of the Smithsonian, a gallery of said book covers.

A website about corporate identity

A nice little catalogue of corporate ID.

Turbo Tanks

In Java!

More color charts!

Pantone to hex! Whee!

The Chronic (what) cles of Narnia

SNL video.

Colorblender

I know I keep posting color pickers, but something about this one seems particularly nice.

Online games

A list of online games.

Motorola ad

Fun animated ad for Motorola, though I can't quite place all the movies referenced, namely the food on the table reference.

I will knot!

I've never been that great at tying different knots (or even really knowing what the different knots are). Maybe this site will turn that around.

The Bubble Project

Who puts those bubbles on ads in the subway and elsewhere? Well, one of them is Ji-Lee, who writes, well, you can read the manifesto yourself on his site.